Antoine Predock

{{Short description|American southwestern architect (1936–2024)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox architect | name = Antoine Predock | image = Antoine Predock.jpg | caption = Predock in 2005 | birth_name = Antoine Samuel Predock | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|06|24}} | birth_place = [[Lebanon, Missouri]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|03|02|1936|06|24}} | death_place = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[Columbia University]] | significant_buildings = [[Petco Park]] | significant_projects = | significant_design = Angular, [[Brutalist architecture|brutalist]]-type building designs | awards = Rome Prize (1985), [[AIA Gold Medal]] (2006), National Design Award (2007) | practice = | spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Jennifer Masley|end = divorced}}|{{marriage|Constance DeJong|2004}}}} | children = 2 }}

'''Antoine Samuel Predock''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|r|iː|d|ɒ|k}} {{Respell|PREE|dok}}; June 24, 1936 – March 2, 2024) was an American architect based in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]]. He was the principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, the studio he founded in 1967.

Predock first gained national attention with the [[La Luz del Oeste|La Luz]] community in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]]. The first national design competition he won was held by the Nelson Fine Arts Center at [[Arizona State University]]. Predock's work includes the Turtle Creek House, built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail in Texas, the [[The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery|Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery]] at [[Skidmore College]], and a new ballpark for the [[San Diego Padres]], [[Petco Park]]. He also worked on international sites such as the [[National Palace Museum]] Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the [[Canadian Museum for Human Rights]] in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]].

Predock said his design was highly influenced by his connection to New Mexico.<ref name = Gomez>{{cite news |last1=Gomez |first1=Adrian |title=World-renowned architect Antoine Predock dies at 87 |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/news/world-renowned-architect-antoine-predock-dies-at-87/article_1703ac7a-d9d1-11ee-a183-b711a15cec8d.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |publisher=Albuquerque Journal |date=March 3, 2024}}</ref>

== Early life == Antoine Samuel Predock was born in [[Lebanon, Missouri]], on June 24, 1936.<ref name = Bernstein>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/arts/design/antoine-predock-dead.html|title = Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87|last = Bernstein|first = Fred A.|date = March 5, 2024|accessdate = March 5, 2024|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref> He considered himself an Albuquerque native, though he did not move there until college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/216364/one-on-one-with-antoine-predock.html|title=One-on-One with Antoine Predock|last=Writer|first=Jessica Dyer {{!}} Journal Staff|website=abqjournal.com|language=en-US|access-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref> Predock credits his mother, who had majored in liberal arts in college, for his artistic inclination, and his father, an engineer, for his technical interests.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/216364/one-on-one-with-antoine-predock.html|title=One-on-One with Antoine Predock|last=Writer|first=Jessica Dyer {{!}} Journal Staff|website=abqjournal.com|language=en-US|access-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref>

Predock first attended the [[University of Missouri]] in [[Columbia, Missouri|Columbia]] School of Engineering,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.predock.com/|title=Antoine Predock Index|website=predock.com|access-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref> then the [[University of New Mexico]], where he studied engineering, emulating his father. Although he was a successful and academically inclined student, Predock found little fulfillment in his studies in engineering. Upon completing a technical drawing course taught by Don Schlegel, an architecture professor at UNM, Predock began to reevaluate his career choices. After a short hiatus from academic life, he returned to UNM at age 21 to study architecture. Schlegel acted as an advisor to Predock throughout the latter's time in the UNM architecture program. Eventually, Schlegel told Predock that he had taken advantage of all that UNM had to offer and encouraged him to apply elsewhere. Predock did, and was accepted to [[Columbia University]], where he obtained his B.A. in architecture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/firm-profile/studio-visit-antoine-predock_o|title=Studio Visit: Antoine Predock |last=|first=|date=March 2, 2011|website=architectmagazine.com|access-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref>

== Career == Predock established his first office in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1967. Other offices were established in California and [[Taipei]].<ref name = Gomez>{{cite news |last1=Gomez |first1=Adrian |title=World-renowned architect Antoine Predock dies at 87 |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/news/world-renowned-architect-antoine-predock-dies-at-87/article_1703ac7a-d9d1-11ee-a183-b711a15cec8d.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |publisher=Albuquerque Journal |date=March 3, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://predock.com/|title=Antoine Predock Index|website=predock.com|access-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref>

Predock and his firm planned, developed, and collaborated on over 100 buildings and projects. They were featured in over 60 exhibitions, 250 books, and over 1,000 publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiala.com/antoine-predock-faia/|title=ANTOINE PREDOCK, FAIA {{!}} AIALA|website=aiala.com|language=en-US|access-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref> He also held various teaching positions at at least 14 universities, in the United States and elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.predock.com/|title=Antoine Predock Index|website=predock.com|access-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref>

== Personal life and death == Predock's first marriage, to Jennifer Masley, ended in divorce.<ref name = Bernstein/> He married his second wife, Constance DeJong, in 2004.<ref name = Bernstein/> Predock was the father of two sons.<ref name = Bernstein/>

Predock died from [[idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis]] at his home in Albuquerque on March 2, 2024, at the age of 87.<ref name = Bernstein/><ref>[https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-landscraper-passes-antoine-predock-faia-1936-2024_o The Landscraper Passes: Antoine Predock, FAIA, 1936-2024]</ref>

== Awards and honors == * International Fellow, [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] (2015)

* Fellow, [[Royal Architectural Institute of Canada]] (2014) * Senior Fellow, [[Design Futures Council]] (2010)<ref>Design Futures Council Senior Fellows [https://archive.today/20120802075206/http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/]</ref> * Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/2007/award.asp?catID=la&nameID=predock|title=Lifetime Achievement Winner: Antoine Predock|publisher=Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925182902/http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/2007/award.asp?catID=la&nameID=predock|archivedate=September 25, 2010|url-status=dead|accessdate=August 22, 2010}}</ref> * [[AIA Gold Medal]] (2006)

* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, [[University of Minnesota]] (2001) * New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1989)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nmartmuseum.org/governors/awards/search.php?type=name&sort=year|title=Past Recipients|publisher=New Mexico Museum of Art|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109010107/http://www.nmartmuseum.org/governors/awards/search.php?type=name&sort=year|archive-date=January 9, 2014|url-status=dead|accessdate=August 5, 2013}}</ref>

* Fellow, [[American Academy in Rome]] (1985)

* William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, Columbia University (1962-63)

==Projects== [[File:CPPCLABUILDING1.JPG|thumb|right|[[CLA Building]] at [[California State Polytechnic University, Pomona]]]]

* 1970 – [[La Luz del Oeste|La Luz Community]], [[New Mexico]] * 1971 – [[University of New Mexico Law School|University of New Mexico Law School building]] * 1979 – [[Albuquerque Museum]], New Mexico * 1982 – [[Rio Grande Nature Center State Park|Rio Grande Nature Center]], New Mexico * 1989 – Nelson Fine Arts Center, [[Arizona State University]], Arizona * 1990 – Las Vegas Central Library + Children’s Museum, [[Nevada]] * 1991 – Mandell Weiss Forum, [[University of California, San Diego]] * 1991 – [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice Beach]] House, [[California]] * 1992 – [[CLA Building|Classroom + Laboratory Building]], [[California State Polytechnic University, Pomona]] (Cal Poly Pomona), demolished in 2022 * 1992 – [[Disney's Hotel Santa Fe|Hotel Santa Fe at Euro Disney]], France * 1993 – [[American Heritage Center]], [[University of Wyoming]] * 1993 – Turtle Creek House, [[Texas]] * 1994 – [[Mesa Public Library]], Los Alamos, New Mexico * 1994 – Social Sciences + Humanities Building, [[University of California, Davis]] * 1994 – [[Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza]], California * 1995 – [[Museum of Science and Industry (Tampa)|Museum of Science & Industry]], [[Tampa]], Florida * 1995 – Ventana Vista School, [[Arizona]] * 1996 – Center for Integrated Systems, [[Stanford University]], California * 1996 – Center for Musical Arts, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] * 1997 – [[Arizona Science Center]], Arizona * 1997 – Center for Nanoscale Science + Technology, [[Rice University]], Texas * 1997 – Dance Studio, [[University of California, San Diego]] * 1997 – Spencer Theater, [[New Mexico]] * 2000 – [[McNamara Alumni Center]], University of Minnesota * 2000 – Tang Teaching Museum – [[Skidmore College]], New York * 2003 – [[Pueblo City-County Library District|Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library]], [[Colorado]] * 2003 – [[Tacoma Art Museum]], Washington * 2004 – [[Austin City Hall (Austin, Texas)|Austin City Hall]], Texas * 2004 – [[Flint RiverQuarium]], Georgia * 2004 – Performing Arts + Learning Center, [[Pima Community College]], Arizona * 2004 – [[Petco Park]], the home of the [[San Diego Padres]] * 2004 – [[National Palace Museum]] Southern Branch, Taiwan (withdrawn in 2008)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/11/27/2003429646 |title=Architectural firm quits museum branch project |date=November 27, 2008 |publisher=Taipei Times}}</ref> * 2006 – [[Discovery Canyon Campus]], Colorado * 2006 – Highlands Pond House, Colorado * 2006 – Recreation Facility, [[Ohio State University]], Ohio * 2007 – George Pearl Hall, School of Architecture, [[University of New Mexico]] * 2007 – Indian Community School, [[Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin|Franklin, Wisconsin]] * 2007 – Doudna Fine Arts Center, [[Eastern Illinois University]] * 2008 – [[Trinity River Audubon Center]], Dallas, Texas * 2008 – Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, [[Colorado College]] * 2014 – [[Canadian Museum for Human Rights]], Winnipeg, Manitoba * In Progress – Inn at [[The French Laundry]], [[California]]

==References== {{reflist}}

*Antoniades, Anthony C. "Antoine Predock: A Case of Synthetic Inclusivity", ''L'arquitettura'', March 1988, pp. 178–198

==External links== * [https://vimeo.com/530514506/ Interview with Antoine Prerock on Grand Opening of Petco Park, 2005] * [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040404/news_1c4predbar.html San Diego Union-Tribune article] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928025328/http://www.waltlockley.com/nelson/nelson.htm Illustrated page on the Nelson Fine Arts Center in Tempe Arizona] * [http://www.predock.com/ Antoine Predock's web page] * [https://archive.today/20130117035056/http://www.architecturallysignificanthomes.com/Architecture/Architecturally%20Significant/5willowood.asp Modern Home in Dallas, Texas Designed by Architect Antoine Predock] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080410230516/http://www.ics-milw.org/home/index.php Indian Community School, Franklin, Wisconsin] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526214630/http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/1210/index.html Predock's Architecture School], by Susan Smith, ArchitectureWeek No. 408, 2008.1210, pD1-1.

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