(In Situ Design sums up the theoretical position embodied ...)
In Situ Design sums up the theoretical position embodied in the work of New York architect George Ranalli. Over the past 32 years, George Ranalli has worked on projects in New York, other states in the U.S., and across the world that have involved large-scale urban design, houses in the landscape, additions, renovations of major landmark buildings and new constructions * George Ranalli is internationally celebrated and published for his work in historic settings, National Register Historic Landmark buildings and settings with rich design and craft traditions. In Situ is his operational strategy in the design of these new buildings and additions to these complexes, providing contemporary and creative structures that also blend in seamlessly with their historic environments * The projects have developed a rich craft and design vocabulary, which links this work to the origins and roots of the longer craft tradition in design and architecture. Edition: Hardcover in a clamshell box with DVD Size: 9.45 x 8.45 in / 240 x 215 mm Format: Landscape Pages: 496 Publication date: 2015 Language: English Photographs: 455 Illustrations: 690 Weight:2.9 kgs Rights:World Rights Available ISBN:978-988-16194-7-1
In a Brooklyn Housing Project, One Bright Spot - The New York Times
(Saratoga Village, a public housing project in Bedford-Stu...)
Saratoga Village, a public housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn by George Ranalli, Architect represents a brief golden age of community center architecture.
First of August, 860 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y.
(According to AIA Guide to New York, Fifth Edition, (1978)...)
According to AIA Guide to New York, Fifth Edition, (1978) authors Norval Wight, Elliot Willensky, and Fran Leadon, the architectural happening on Lexington Avenue was George Ranalli's design for a boutique, featuring a metal facade, to beautifully expand the interior of an old brownstone, and make space for innovative commercial retail space.
(For the past decade, the New York City Housing Authority ...)
For the past decade, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has been on a community center building binge. In the face of current economic conditions, many that are now ready to open their doors are facing the economic crunch, but remain optimistic that they will become active and important components of their communities. Among them is one we’ve been following for several years (not unusual considering the bureaucracy and politics of a major metropolis). It is the Saratoga Avenue Community Center in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. NYCHA commissioned New York City-based George Ranalli, Architect to renovate an existing 1,500-square-foot community facility that is part of the Saratoga Village Apartments, a typical 1960s 16-story, mixed-income housing tower. The project, which serves the existing housing block and several other buildings sharing the site, also included a 3,500-square-foot addition located on Saratoga Avenue.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
(the Canadian Center for Architect exhibited five commissi...)
the Canadian Center for Architect exhibited five commissioned, three-dimensional models by architect George Ranalli. Each is an analytic reconstruction of how an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright project might have looked in its site.
Fashion Center Building Historic Restoration & Renovation
ARCHITECTURE VIEW, A Stitch in Time, Renewing a Swatch Of Urban Fabric - NYTimes.com
(GEORGE RANALLI ARCHITECT completed a project that glows w...)
GEORGE RANALLI ARCHITECT completed a project that glows with a keen sensitivity to form, materials and detail that has made this New York "architect's architect" an esteemed figure in his profession. A remodeled entrance and lobby in an old garment district loft building, along with the redesigned of upper floor hallways, departs from Ranalli's customary vocabulary, steeped in the style of an earlier day. He hasn't renounced his own esthetic. Rather, he's woven it into a vintage swatch of urban fabric. Synthetic blends may not be fashion's raiment of choice, but Ranalli's stylistic synthesis is a beauty. Located at 575 Seventh Avenue at 38th Street, Fashion Center Building is a 24-story block of showrooms and offices in a rich part of the garment district's distinct urban tissue. And while the building's architect, Henry Ives Cobb, is an obscure figure today, he was highly regarded at the turn of the century, chiefly on account of his master plan for the University of Chicago.
(Lock-it door lever by George Ranalli, in aluminum; dimens...)
Lock-it door lever by George Ranalli, in aluminum; dimensions A) handle: 7-1/4 in. B) lock: 1-3/4 (diam.) inches. Accession number 2010.13A-B.
http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/39068/
1995
Historic Preservation
New York Architecture, Fashion Center Building Photo Gallery
(Fashion Center Building has a grand entry, restored by Ge...)
Fashion Center Building has a grand entry, restored by George Ranalli Architect in the spirit of the original Renaissance Revival vestibule and lobby by Henry Ives Cobb, circa 1923.
(Door Gems, by George Ranalli Designs, a new line of archi...)
Door Gems, by George Ranalli Designs, a new line of architectural housewares and hardware, riff on geometric form highlighting functionality, materials, and charm. Ranalli’s visually stunning Italian Modernist architecture has earned him the appellation of "New York Architect's Architect" by the New York Times. Now, he translates his eye-catching sensibilities to smaller scale design with his signature dramatic intensity.
http://www.georgeranallidesigns.com/
Interior Residential Architecture
A Jigsaw Puzzle That Sleeps 4 - Habitats - The New York Times
(New York architect George Ranalli combined two apartments...)
New York architect George Ranalli combined two apartments in an old furniture factory building in Chelsea, Manhattan into a place entirely of his own beautiful and innovative space conserving design.
For connoisseurs of architecture : Callender Schoolhouse condominiums
(A brochure of six condominium units for developers Mr. an...)
A brochure of six condominium units for developers Mr. and Mrs. William E. Boggs by George Ranalli Architect. The former historic Callender Schoolhouse, 11 Willow St., Newport, RI, adapted for residential reuse, featuring an exterior restoration of the 1860s Italianate structure.
A totem in Times Square: New York as it might have looked – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
(From an airport in Midtown stretching 144 blocks to a neo...)
From an airport in Midtown stretching 144 blocks to a neoclassical civic centre covering Roosevelt Island, here are some proposals that would have changed the face of New York City
George J. Ranalli, FAIA, is an Italian American architect based in New York City.
Background
George Ranalli was born in New York City, and he grew up in the Bronx. He was inspired to pursue a career in architecture during visits to places such as the New York Public Library, Bronx Botanical Gardens, and Guggenheim Museum. Also a professional jazz musician, Mr. Ranalli studied architecture at Pratt Institute, and Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Since 1977, Mr. Ranalli has led the award-winning firm of George Ranalli Architect, based in New York City, and since 1985, George Ranalli DESIGNS.
George J. Ranalli is an American architect based in New York City. Since 1977, the firm of George Ranalli Architect has created award-winning architecture and design for residential, commercial, public, and cultural projects of every scope and scale attuned to history and setting. A graduate of Pratt Institute (B.Arch '72) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (M.Arch '74), Mr. Ranalli is a member of the American Institute of Architect's College of Fellows. In 1985, he founded George Ranalli DESIGNS, creating a portfolio of custom furniture and industrial design objects for commercial distribution. In 1996, Yale University awarded him an honorary Master of Arts degree. During his productive career, George Ranalli has been recognized for advancing both the innovations and traditions of the profession of architecture.
(From an airport in Midtown stretching 144 blocks to a neo...)
2019
Religion
Sacred space exists alongside intention.
Politics
Politics has been called the "art of the possible," a realm akin to Art insofar as, like Art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life. - Thomas Mann, U. S. Library of Congress, May 29, 1945
Views
Life is a beautiful masterpiece.
Quotations:
"We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends, and our communities, and then they construct us." - Frank Lloyd Wright.
Membership
George Ranalli holds a professional license to practice Architecture in New York and Connecticut.
AIA College of Fellows
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United States
2015 - present
Mt. St. Michael Academy Alumni Association
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United States
1964 - present
American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter
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Manhattan
1980 - present
The Society of American Registered Architects (SARA)
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New York
2016 - present
Yale Club of New York
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New York
1976 - present
The New York Landmarks Conservancy
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New York
2010 - present
Personality
Energetic, responsible, and dependable. Well-developed powers of concentration. Quiet and reserved, interested in art, and how and why things work.
Physical Characteristics:
A Roman nose beneath an expansive forehead, so I've been told.
Quotes from others about the person
NY Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp wrote George Ranalli's architectural restoration/ renovation of New York City's Fashion Center Building, "... glows with a keen sensitivity to form, material and detail that has made this New York 'atchitect's architect' an esteemed figure in his profession.
Award-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote George Ranalli's public architecture project for client NYCHA in Brooklyn, New York, "... deserves to have its presence shouted from the rooftops as a seriously fine demonstration of the art of architecture."
Paul Goldberger wrote about Mr. Ranalli's adaptation of a historic Rhode Island schoolhouse to a community of residential condominiums: "For all its modernity, this project is an architectural experience worthy of Newport, and it connects us again to the architectural traditions of this unusual city."
Joseph Giovannini called George Ranalli a "a rock of modernism."
In 2004, the Architects Newspaper asked the deans of fifteen schools of architecture in the north-eastern United States about the state of architectural education, and stated, "... Only George Ranalli of New York said the curriculum must reflect social needs."
Interests
theater, soccer
Philosophers & Thinkers
Stephen Hawking, Barton Gellman, Jane Jacobs, Jack Newfield, Spike Lee
Politicians
Gandhi, Sojourner Truth, Al Gore
Writers
Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert, Paul Goldberger, Joseph Giovannini, Rebecca Miller, Mary Morris, David McCullough, Adrianna Trigiani, Malcolm Gladwell
Artists
Frank Stella, Lauretta Vinciarelli, Nancy Goldring, Victor Stabin, David Hockney, Richard Haas,
Sport & Clubs
Soccer, Yale Club of New York
Athletes
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987), America's greatest, most athletic jazz drummer and bandleader.
Music & Bands
American Jazz,
Connections
George Ranalli lives in New York with his wife and collaborator and their two children.
George Ranalli : Buildings And Projects
George Ranalli : Buildings And Projects" (1988), by author and architect George Ranalli; published by Princeton Architectural Press. The 107-page monograph presents early projects from 1975 - 1988. Contributors Anthony Vidler and Michael Sorkin lay groundwork for critical exploration of Ranalli's enduring interests in modern architecture, the environment, history, and culture.
1988
Saratoga : George Ranalli
Acclaimed critic Paul Goldberger listed New York architect George Ranalli's project for Saratoga Avenue Community Center among the "Ten Most Positive Architectural Events of 2009." Sponsored by New York City Housing Authority, Ranalli designed a renovation of the base of a residential housing tower, new landscape, and a beautiful Community Center building.
2009
Ranalli, G. “History, Craft, Invention,” pp. 39-151
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History is a cataloge published by Canadian Centre for Architecture and The Monacelli Press for an exhibition by the same name. An often cited essay by New York architect George Ranalli discusses the dynamics and the history of place and traditional design and construction applications to Scarpa's architectural innovations.
1999
Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli
"Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli" (1943 - 2011) is a publication of the watercolor paintings of a distinguished Italian architect-professor-artist of extraordinary conceptual and technical abilities. The publication accompanied an exhibited curated by George Ranalli, and it features an in-depth overview of the artist's uniquely poetic and evocative paintings.
2014
Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker. London: Laurence King
"Key Interiors Since 1900" (2013) London: Laurence King is a history of modern Interior design reusing existing buildings, from 1900 to the present, including K-Loft by New York architect George Ranalli.
2013
Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture by John Hill, First Edition.
This comprehensive survey of 21st century architecture in New York features 400 full-color photographs and 22 maps documenting 200+ projects. New York architect George Ranalli's unique Saratoga Avenue Community Center is one of two neo-traditional buildings -- and innovative blend of contemporary and traditional design elements.
2011
Casas Internacional 57: George Ranalli, by architect George Ranalli, Kliczkowski Publisher, Madrid, Spain.
N.Y. architect George Ranalli presents 8 residential projects through the architect's introduction and photography form George Cserna and Paul Warchol. The specific works explain architectural percepts, including the idea that all levels of civic and private architecture hold the potential to meaningfully interpret human experience.
1999
In Situ : George Ranalli Works & Projects
In Situ: George Ranalli Works & Projects sums up the theoretical position embodied in 40-years of practice of New York based George Ranalli Architect.
Sagrada Familia: Gaudi’s Unfinished Masterpiece Geometry, Construction and Site
Hardcover in slipcase: An Exhibition, September 2014- May 2015. Curator: George Ranalli. More than a century after the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí began to design The Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, Sagrada Familia is still undergoing the process of construction. This exhibition catalogue focuses on the dynamics of a construction phase which has incorporated successive generations of architects, engineers, builders, and new technologies.
2015
Saratoga (Single Building)
In Saratoga (2009), author/ architect George Ranalli documents the Saratoga Avenue Community Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn -- a city-agency sponsored project to reorganize, renovate, and expand an isolated inner-city housing block. Saratoga looks an in-depth look at Ranalli's innovative approaches to producing abeautiful, durable, adaptable, and sustainable work of architecture, on a rock-bottom budget, that connects an urban community to new green spaces,and light-filled interiors, both functional and lovely. Ranalli provides plenty of contextual and programmatic information alongside vivid color images from photographer Paul Warchol, and reproductions of architectural sketches, renderings, plans, and other details documenting every phase of the life cycle of the project. Acclaimed architecture critic Ms. Huxtable credits Saratoga for breaking every rule of conventional civic architecture.
2009
Breaking All the Rules With New York's Public Building Design
By Ada Louise Huxtable - The Wall Street Journal. "Mr. Ranalli adheres to the logic of modernist practice, integrating its mechanical, material and structural realities with details drawn fromearlier sources to create an integral ornament of abstract lineargeometry. His purpose is to move modernism into an enriched and moredeeply referenced style." -- Breaking All The Rules With New York's Public Buildings
The Architecture League of New York. Birch Burdette Long Memorial Drawing Exhibition. Category: Architectural Drawings, Honorable Mention. Photomontage 20”x 39¾ "Urban Images/ New York City/ An Addition" by George Ranalli. Part of the Burdette Long Archive of Architectural Drawing, Avery Architecture Library, Columbia University Archival Collections, New York City. May 1974.
George Ranalli, Architect is the recipient of the Award of Honor for the Saratoga Avenue Community Center from the American Institute of Architect's Brooklyn Chapter.
George Ranalli, Architect is the recipient of the Award of Honor for the Saratoga Avenue Community Center from the American Institute of Architect's Brooklyn Chapter.
Sidney L. Strauss Award,
New York Society of Architects
New York Society of Architects awards the Sidney L. Strauss Award to recipients who have made outstanding contributions to the profession of architecture.
New York Society of Architects awards the Sidney L. Strauss Award to recipients who have made outstanding contributions to the profession of architecture.
AIA New York annual Design Awards Program recognizes outstanding architectural design by New York Chapter members, based architects in New York City, for local projects and work around the globe.
AIA New York annual Design Awards Program recognizes outstanding architectural design by New York Chapter members, based architects in New York City, for local projects and work around the globe.
American Institute of Architects, College of Fellows
The AIA College of Fellows, founded in 1952, is composed of members of the Institute elected to Fellowship by a jury of peers; one of the highest honors the AIA bestows upon a member. Elevation to the Fellowship not only recognizes achievements of an individual but also elevates those who have made significant contributions to the practice of architecture on behalf of society.
The AIA College of Fellows, founded in 1952, is composed of members of the Institute elected to Fellowship by a jury of peers; one of the highest honors the AIA bestows upon a member. Elevation to the Fellowship not only recognizes achievements of an individual but also elevates those who have made significant contributions to the practice of architecture on behalf of society.