Edward Durrell Stone
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Edward Durrell Stone (1902 Fayetteville Arkansas - 1978 New York City), American modernist twentieth century American architect.
Stone attended Harvard and MIT and established his own firm in New York in 1936. After a period of strict interpretation of International Style, in the 1950's Stone departed from modernist strictures and developed an individual, idiosyncratic style which included patterns of ornament. By some accounts, this was through the influence of his wife. Treated as a renegade Stone continued to receive major commissions in the US and abroad.
In 2004 his life and career received renewed attention because of the impending destruction of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, and a fresh controversy over 2 Columbus Circle, an enigmatic, prominent and windowless 12-story Manhattan concrete building first commissioned by wastrel Huntington Hartford Jr. as an art museum, and afterward deeded to the City. Proposed alterations to the building by architect Brad Cloepfil touched off a preservation debate joined by Tom Wolfe and Robert A.M. Stern, among others.
Important works include:
- Museum of Modern Art, New York (with Philip L. Goodwin, 1939)
- Edward Durrell Stone House, New York City (1956)
- US Embassy, New Delhi (1958)
- US Pavilion at Expo 58, Brussels (1958)
- 2 Columbus Circle, New York City (1962)
- National Geographic Building, Washington, DC (1964)
- Busch Stadium, Saint Louis, Missouri (1966)
- State University of New York at Albany (1968)
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC (1971)
- Aon Center, Chicago, Illinois (formerly Standard Oil Building) (1972)