George Ranalli

{{short description|American architect}} {{multiple issues| {{COI|date=June 2018}} {{disputed|date=June 2018}} {{fan POV|date=June 2018}} }} {{Infobox architect | name = George Ranalli, FAIA | image = | image_size = <!-- if image is smaller than 250px --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = George Joseph Ranalli | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1946}} | birth_place = New York | alma_mater = Pratt Institute<br>Harvard University | practice = Architect, curator, scholar, higher education administrator | significant_buildings = | significant_projects = | awards = Sydney L. Strauss Award, Stanford White Award | website = {{URL|http://georgeranalli.com}}<br />{{URL|http://georgeranallidesigns.com/}} }}

'''George Joseph Ranalli''' (born 1946){{r|getty}} is an American modernist architect, scholar, curator, and fellow of the American Institute of Architects.<ref>{{cite web|title=2015 FAIA Announcement |url=http://www.aia.org |website=The American Institute of Architects |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508072810/http://www.aia.org/ |archive-date=2015-05-08 }}</ref> He is based in New York City.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wright|first1=Sylvia Hart|title=Sourcebook of contemporary North American architecture from postwar to postmodern|date=1989|publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold|location=New York|isbn=978-0442291907|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sourcebookofcont00wrig/page/200 200,:ill.;29 cm]|url=https://archive.org/details/sourcebookofcont00wrig/page/200|url-access=registration}}</ref>

== Early life and education == A native of The Bronx, New York,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Solis|first1=Gustavo|title=Famed Architect George Ranalli Ditches Chelsea for Harlem|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141113/west-harlem/famed-architect-george-ranalli-ditches-chelsea-for-harlem|publisher=DNAInfo|date=November 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821185136/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141113/west-harlem/famed-architect-george-ranalli-ditches-chelsea-for-harlem|archive-date=August 21, 2016}}</ref> of Italian American descent,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Iannucci|first1=Lisa|title=HIGH PROFILE; Italian Americans making news|journal=Italian America |date=April 1, 2003|volume=VIII|issue=2|page=2|url=https://www.osia.org|issn=1089-5043}}</ref> he was inspired to become an architect at the age of about 13 when he saw the then-unfinished Guggenheim Museum, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.<ref name="Metropolis 2010 Nov" /> Ranalli attended Mount Saint Michael Academy high school in New York City and graduated in 1964.<ref name="St. Michael Yearbook 1964" /> From 1967 to 1968, he attended New York Institute of Technology, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1972.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Institute|first1=Pratt|title=Alumni Directory|date=1995|page= 263|publisher=Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co., Inc.|location=White Plains, New York|oclc=33266982}}</ref> Thereafter, Ranalli attended Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, earning a Master of Architecture in 1974. Upon graduation, he traveled on a research grant throughout Europe before returning to New York.<ref name="Metropolis 2010 Nov" />

== Career == Ranalli founded his firm, "George Ranalli, Architect", in New York in 1977.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Profile: George Ranalli Architect|magazine=Architectural Digest|date=August 15, 1991|volume=48|issue=9|page=196}}</ref> Early on, architecture critic Paul Goldberger described Ranalli in a ''New York Times'' article as one of the "better younger architects" working in the Modernist idiom.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Architecture View; Modernism Reaffirms Its Power|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/24/arts/architecture-view-modernism-reaffirms-its-power.html|newspaper = New York Times|date = November 24, 1985|access-date = July 22, 2015|issn = 0362-4331|first = Paul|last = Goldberger |author-link=Paul Goldberger}}</ref> Goldberger stated that Ranalli's designs were tied "as closely to the ancient craft of building as to the modern business of churning out huge commercial projects, yet they bespeak a consistent awareness of the realities of our age as well."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldberger|first1=Paul|title=ARCHITECTURE VIEW; Taking the Pulse of New American Architecture|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/arts/architecture-view-taking-the-pulse-of-new-american-architecture.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 1, 1989}}</ref> In 1991, Michael Sorkin described Ranalli as "a creator and preserver of worlds, a precisionist."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sorkin|first1=Michael|title=Exquisite corpse: writing on buildings|date=1991|publisher=Verso|location=London;New York|isbn=978-0860913238|pages=x,365p.:ill.;25cm|edition= 1st|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}</ref> Ranalli is credited with carrying forward the lessons of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa into new settings.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A M|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=New York 2000 : architecture and urbanism between the Bicentennial and the Millennium|date=2006|publisher=Monacelli Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1580931779|pages=1520 pages: color illustrations; 29 cm|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Brooker|first1=Graeme|last2=Stone|first2=Sally|title=From organisation to decoration: an interiors reader|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=9780415436199|pages=xvii, 294 pages: illustrations; 26 cm|edition= 1st|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}</ref> Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote that Ranalli's "purpose is to move modernism into an enriched and more deeply referenced style."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Huxtable|first1=Ada Louise|title=Breaking All the Rules With New York's Public Building Design|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124218023213113609|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 13, 2009}}</ref> In 1996, Yale University granted Ranalli a Master of Arts degree, honoris causa. In 2015, Architectural Record described Ranalli's career as a Gesamtkunstwerk.<ref name="Monographs in Disguise">{{cite web|last1=Gorlin|first1=Alex|title=Monographs in Disguise|url=http://www.architecturalrecord.com|website=architecturalrecord.com|publisher=Architectural Record|date=December 1, 2015}}</ref> Ranalli's industrial design objects, such as door hardware, furniture, and glassware are recognized as art.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Design Quarterly No. 155, 1992|journal = Design Quarterly|issue = 155|pages = 20–23|last=Ranalli|first=George|language=en|jstor = 4091272|year = 1992|doi = 10.2307/4091272}}{{dead link|date=January 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Formica & design: from the counter top to high art|last=Lewin|first=Susan Grant|date=1991|publisher=Rizzoli|isbn=978-0847813346|location=New York|pages=146–147|language=en|oclc = 924879797}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/39068/|title=Lock-It door handle|website=Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection|language=en|access-date=2018-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Architetture di vetro: la collezione Corolle d'Autore Rex|last1=Tommasini|first1=Maria Cristina|last2=Barovier|first2=Marino|publisher=Domus|year=2003|isbn=978-8872124123|location=Rozzano, Milano|pages=122–123|oclc = 932521297}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NO0xAQAAIAAJ&q=George+Ranalli|title=Architecture: The AIA Journal|date=1994|publisher=American Institute of Architects|language=en}}</ref> The firm George Ranalli Architect is credited with innovating total design concepts for interior architecture and furniture design.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archpaper.com/2018/05/architect-george-ranalli-reinvents-the-renovation/#gallery-0-slide-0|title=With an assist from psychology, architect George Ranalli reinvents the renovation - Archpaper.com|website=archpaper.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-14}}</ref>

=== Selected architecture === thumb|Callender School, Newport, Rhode Island * 2018: The National school House for Theater Arts Masterplan, New York City<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tnshta.com/architectural-team|title=National Schoolhouse of Theatre Arts New York|website=National Schoolhouse of Theatre Arts New York|language=en|access-date=2018-05-31|archive-date=2018-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711154749/https://www.tnshta.com/architectural-team|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2009: Saratoga Avenue Community Center, Brownsville, Brooklyn, a public-building project for New York City Housing Authority<ref>{{cite news|last1=Heffer|first1=Simon|title=Brilliant architecture can rescue even Basingstoke: George Ranalli's marvellous work in Brooklyn should be a lesson to Britain's architects and planners|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/8010830/Brilliant-architecture-can-rescue-even-Basingstoke.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=September 18, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Davidson|first1=Justin|title=Stealth By Design|magazine=New York|date=November 2009|volume=42|issue=37|page=68|url=https://nymag.com/arts/architecture/features/61724/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Vinciguerra|first1=Tom|title=Oasis in Limestone and Brick: A community center grows in Brooklyn.|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/09/saratoga-community-center-in-brooklyn|website=harvardmagazine.com|publisher=Harvard Magazine|date=October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mooney|first1=Jake|title=On Violent Ground, a Touch of Beauty|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/nyregion/thecity/29disp.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date=March 26, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/27/nyregion/thecity/032909-dispatches_index.html|title=Empowering Architecture|work=The New York Times |date=27 March 2009 |access-date=2018-05-31}}</ref> * 2002: Masterplan for The City College of New York {{Convert|36.5|acre|m2|4}} (plan only, unbuilt)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Haar|first1=Sharon|title=The Campus|url=http://archpaper.com/2005/09/campus-life/|publisher=The Architect's Newspaper|date=September 21, 2005}}</ref> * 1996: K-Loft, urban dwelling (interior)<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Giovannini|first1=Joseph|title=Redefining The Loft|magazine=Architectural Digest|date=August 1996|pages=80–85}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Nasatir|first1=Judith|title=George Ranalli|magazine=Interior Design|date=June 1994|volume=65|issue=8|pages=112–119|url=http://www.interiordesign.net/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Coates|first1=Michael|last2=Brooker|first2=Graeme|last3=Stone|first3=Sally|title=The visual dictionary of interior architecture and design|date=2009|publisher=Ava Pub.|location=Laussane, Switzerland|isbn=9782940439614|pages=288 pages: color illustrations, plans|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}</ref> * 1990: Fashion Center Building, 525 Seventh Avenue<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/06/arts/architecture-view-a-stitch-in-time-renewing-a-swatch-of-urban-fabric.html|last1=Muschamp|first1=Herbert|title=A Stitch In Time Renewing A Swatch of Urban Fabric |work=The New York Times|date=March 6, 1994|author1-link=Herbert Muschamp}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=George Ranalli: Renovation of the Fashion Center Building in New York|journal=DOMUS|date=July 1994|issue=762|pages=84–89|url=http://domus.immanens.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Rereadings 2: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings, Issue 2|last=Brooker|first=Graeme|publisher=RIBA Publications|year=2018|isbn=9781859465813|location=London|pages=176–180}}</ref> * 1982: The Peak Competition,;<ref>{{Cite book|title=The 20th century architecture and urbanism: Paris|last1=Cohen|first1=Jean-Louis|last2=Eleb|first2=Monique|last3=Martinelli|first3=Antonio|date=1990|publisher=A + U Pub.|isbn=978-4900211315|location=Tokyo|pages=8–94|language=en|oclc = 473129942}}</ref> 8 Severn Road, Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, completed 2006<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/03/09/the-worlds-richest-street-hong-kongs-severn-road/|title=The World's Richest Street: Hong Kong's Severn Road|last=Chow|first=Jason|date=2011-03-09|website=The Wall Street Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> * 1981: Callander School Renovation/ Restoration, Newport, Rhode Island<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Goldberger|first1=Paul|title=Architecture: George Ranalli|magazine=Architectural Digest|date=December 1, 1981|volume=38|issue=12|pages=148–153|url=https://www.worldcat.org/|issn=0003-8520}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Brooker|first1=Graeme|title=Key interiors since 1900|date=2013|publisher=Laurence King Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-1780672687|pages=256 pages: color illustrations; 30 cm|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}</ref><ref name="Rhode Island History 1983" /> * 1977: First of August/ August Too boutique, New York City<ref name="First Of August">{{cite book|last1=Jencks|first1= Charles|last2=Chaitkin|first2=William|title=Architecture Today|date=1982|publisher=H.N. Abrams|location=New York|isbn=978-0810906693|pages=102–103|chapter=A Sign of Agnosticism|author1-link=Charles Jencks}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Udo|first1=Kultermann|title=Architecture in the 20th Century|date=1983|publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold|location=New York|isbn=9780442009427|chapter=The Young Generation: First of August}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Schofield|editor1-first=Maria|title=Decorative art and modern interiors|date=1978|publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold Company|location=New York:, Cincinnati: London|isbn=978-0442274238|pages=183|url=https://www.worldcat.org|language=en, fr}}</ref>

=== Museum and gallery exhibitions === Ranalli has been exhibited in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,<ref name="Ranalli Chair Met Accn N° 1990.306" /> Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Muschamp|first1=Herbert|title=Architecture Review: The Designs of a Genius Redesigning Himself|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/18/arts/the-designs-of-a-genius-redesigning-himself.html|access-date=July 31, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=July 18, 1997|author1-link=Herbert Muschamp}}</ref> MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Drawing Toward a More Modern Architecture (Exhibition) (1977: New York, N.Y.)|title=Exhibition Records, 1976-2000|url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/search?query=%22Drawing%20Toward%20a%20More%20Modern%20Architecture%20(Exhibition)%20(1977%3A%20New%20York%2C%20N.Y.)%22|website=siarchives.si.edu|publisher=Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum}}</ref> American Craft Museum,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hamilton|first1=William L.|title=Trading Baskets For Plastics|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/garden/trading-baskets-for-plastics.html|date=June 19, 2003}}</ref> Skyscraper Museum,<ref>{{cite news|author1=Joseph Giovannini|title=Midtown Manhattan Wouldn't Be the Same 'Times Square, 1984,' at The Skyscraper Museum|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/arts/design/times-square-1984-at-the-skyscraper-museum.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2014-08-21}}</ref> Architectural League of New York,<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Emerging Voices|url=http://archleague.org|website=The Architectural League NY|publisher=The Architectural League of NY|access-date=January 17, 2016}}</ref> American Institute of Architects,<ref>{{cite book|last1=American Institute of Architects. New York Chapter|title=10 on 10: the critics' choice|date=1988|oclc=20180244}}</ref> Sperone Westwater Fisher gallery,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sperone Westwater: Past Exhibitions|title=Gorup Show: Elements of Architecture : May 08 to Aug. 31, 1979|url=http://www.speronewestwater.com|website=speronewestwater}}</ref> Artists Space,<ref>{{cite web|title=Present Tense: The Architecture of George Ranalli November 14, 1997 – January 10, 1998|url=http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/present-tense-the-architecture-of-george-ranalli|website=artistsspace.org|publisher=Artists Space|access-date=July 10, 2016}}</ref> and The Drawing Center.<ref>{{cite web|last1=The Drawing Center|title=Drawings For A More Modern Architecture|url=http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/14/past/642/drawings-for-a-more-modern-architecture/|location=New York|date=September 20, 1977}}</ref>

Throughout the United States, Ranalli has contributed to exhibitions at Bass Museum,<ref>{{cite news|last1=JOHNSON|first1=KEN|title=DESIGN REVIEW; Elegance, Wit and Pop in a Quarter-Century of American Design|url=https://www.nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times: Arts|date=August 8, 2003}}</ref> Memphis Brooks Museum of Art,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Villarreal|first1=Ignacio|title=The Brooks Presents US DESIGN, 1975-2000|url=http://artdaily.com|publisher=Art Daily|date=2004}}</ref> Denver Art Museum,<ref name="Interior Design 2002 May 1" /> Indianapolis Museum of Art, Yale University,<ref name="Yale Bulletin 98–99" /> The Art Institute of Chicago,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ryerson and Burnham Archives, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago|title=Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Competition Collection|url=http://digital-libraries.saic.edu}}</ref> Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Klages|first1=Karen E.|title=Formica: the kitchen counter of the '50s surfaces in the 80s as jewelry, furniture, and buildings|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 15, 1989}}</ref> Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Tigerman|editor1-first=Stanley|title=Chicago Tribune Tower competition/late entries|date=1980|oclc=6690650}}</ref> Otis Art Institute,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Contributors|journal=Oz: Journal of Architecture, Planning & Design|date=1995|volume=17|issue=10|doi=10.4148/2378-5853.1276|doi-access=free}}</ref> and the Library of Congress.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Madison Gallery, Madison Building, and Library of Congress|title=Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932: 14 Nov 1996 - 15 Feb 1997|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/flw.html|website=loc.gov |access-date=July 23, 2015}}</ref>

International exhibitions of Ranalli's work include Centre Pompidou,<ref>{{cite book|title=Créer dans le créé : l'architecture contemporaine dans les bâtiments anciens : [exposition, Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 28 mai-7 septembre 1986]|date=1986|publisher=Electa|location=Paris|isbn=978-2866530389|pages=238|oclc=465495400}}</ref> Canadian Centre for Architecture,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lloyd Wright|first1=Frank|last2=Gilson De Long|first2=David|title=Frank Lloyd Wright : designs for an American landscape 1922-1932 : exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright, designs for an American landscape 1922-1932 ... at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, from June 18 to September 22, 1996|date=1996|publisher=Abrams|location=New York|isbn=978-0810939813|pages=207 S.: ill|url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/54202/frank-lloyd-wright-designs-for-an-american-landscape-19221932}}</ref> Museum of Finnish Architecture,<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Pallasmaa|editor1-first=Juhani|title=Creation And Recreation: America Draws : catalogue of an exhibition; Helsinki, July 1980) = Tämän päivän Amerikkalaisia arkkitehtuuripiirustuksia|date=1980|publisher=Museum of Finnish Architecture|location=Helsinki|isbn=978-9519229065}}</ref> XVII Triennale di Milano, and Design Museum, Helsinki.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Juhani Pallasmaa (Ed)|first1=Gerald Allen and|title=Creation And Recreation: America Draws|date=1980|publisher=Museum of Finnish Architecture|location=Helsinki}}</ref>

=== Professional recognition === Ranalli has received professional awards from the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2015,<ref name="AIA 2015 Fellow">{{cite web|url=http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2015/fellows/index.htm|title=2015 FAIA Announcement|website= American Institute of Architects}}</ref> the New York Society of Architects,<ref name="e-Occulus 2010 Oct 26" /> New York Foundation for the Arts,<ref>{{cite web|last1=New York Foundation for the Arts |title=Directory of Artists' Fellows 1985-2013 (PDF)|url=https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Past%20Fellows|website=nyfa.org|access-date=July 22, 2015|author1-link=New York Foundation for the Arts}}</ref> and the Architectural League of New York.<ref>{{cite book|last1=of New York|first1=The Architectural League|title=30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance|date=July 7, 2015|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |isbn=9781616891978|edition= First|url=http://www.upcitemdb.com/upc/9781616891978}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Columbia University|title=Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Department of Drawings & Archives|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_3460630/|location=Birch Burdette Long architectural drawings.}}</ref>

Between 1969 and 2015, Ranalli received design awards from the Society of American Registered Architects;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Society of American Registered Architects New York Council|title=2012 Design Awards|url=http://www.sarany.org/#!sarany-2012-design-awards/cz1t|website=sarany.org|access-date=June 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Society of American Registered Architects Pennsylvania Council|title=2011 8th Annual Professional Design Awards|url=http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54a6bb52e4b0c309d0180db1/t/54a70ca8e4b02cb3ce0d5a78/1420233896261/PDA+Booklet+2011+Compressed.pdf|website=sarapa.org}}</ref> American Institute of Architects,<ref>{{cite web|last1=George Ranalli, RA Saratog Community Center, 940 Hancock St, Brooklyn, NY|title=Archive for: Awards of Excellence 2010|url=http://aiabrooklyn.org/portfolio_entries/awards-of-excellence-2010/|website=aiabrooklyn.org|publisher=AIA Brooklyn|access-date=July 31, 2015|archive-date=September 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930231133/http://aiabrooklyn.org/portfolio_entries/awards-of-excellence-2010/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects|title=On current New York architecture|journal=Oculus|volume=v. 60 - 61|issue=Sept. 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Yale University Library|title=Series I. Annual Reports|url=http://findingaids.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ru.0012&query=connecticut%20japanese&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&hlon=yes&big=&adv=&filter=&hitPageStart=101&sortFields=&view=c01_1|ref=Folder 4, Box 1, Architecture, School of, 1975-1976|author1-link=Yale University Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. The GSD History Collection, Academic Affairs: An Inventory|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~des00022|website=oasis.lib.harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University Library|access-date=July 22, 2015}}</ref> and Progressive Architecture.<ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Dixon|editor1-first=John Morris, FAIA|title=The 27th P/A Awards|journal=Progressive Architecture|date=January 1980|volume= 61|page=3}}</ref> In 2015, he received the Stanford White Award.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Institute of Classical Architecture and Art|title=The Classicist Blog|url=http://blog.classicist.org/?paged=16|website=blog.classicist.org|access-date=July 23, 2015|author1-link=Institute of Classical Architecture and Art}}</ref>

== Academia == Ranalli was a professor of architectural design and visual studies at Yale University School of Architecture & Environmental Design for 23 years, from 1976 to 1999.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M|last2=Stamp|first2=Jimmy|title=Pedagogy and Place 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale|date=May 3, 2016|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, Connecticut|isbn=9780300211924|pages=668|edition= 1st|url=http://yalebooks.com|language=en}}</ref> From 1987 to 1999, Ranalli along belonged to the fellowship of Morse College at Yale University.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Yale University|title=Morse College|url=http://com.yalecollege.yale.edu/fellows |website=com.yalecollege.yale.edu|publisher=Yale College Office of Web Operations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Yale University|title=Yale University Library Manuscripts & Archives|url=http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa/offices/inventories/school-of-architecture|website=web.library.yale.edu|publisher=Yale University|access-date=July 23, 2015}}</ref>

Ranalli has been a visiting professor of architectural design and drawing at colleges and universities, such as Boston Architectural Center, Rhode Island School of Design,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fleet Library|title=Rhode Island School of Design|url=http://library.risd.edu|website=risd.edu}}</ref> University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies,<ref>{{cite web|last1=The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Archive|title=The IAUS Archive at the CCA: 1967 to 1983|url=http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/collection/416-institute-for-architecture-and-urban-studies-archive|website=cca.qc.ca|access-date=2015-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714142328/http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/collection/416-institute-for-architecture-and-urban-studies-archive|archive-date=2015-07-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Cooper Union.<ref name="Yale Bulletin 97–98" /><ref name="Porter1993" />

From 1999 to 2017, Ranalli ran the architecture department at the City College of New York.<ref>{{cite journal|title=New Faces|journal=Architectural Record|date=September 1999|volume=187|issue=9|page=81}}</ref> In 2005, he was honored with the Renaissance Award from the Alumni Association of the City College School of Architecture.<ref name="Honors">{{cite magazine|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Honors|magazine=The Architect's Newspaper |date=2005 |volume=3}}</ref>

=== Curation === Ranalli is known for work in the areas of architecture curation.

; Yale School of Architecture {{refbegin|50em}} * Paul Rudolph: Drawing For Architecture 1956–1963, October 1 – November 23, 1977 * Young Architects, January 14 – February 1, 1980<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli, Curator|first1=George|title=Young Architects|date=1980|publisher=Yale University Press|page=21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Peters|first1=Julie|title=Architects' Post-Postmodernism Dazzles|url=http://digital.library.yale.edu/utils/getarticleclippings/collection/yale-ydn/id/13991/articleId/DIVL280/compObjId/13995/lang/en_US/dmtext/Julie%20Peters|date=January 18, 1980|work=Yale Daily News|location=New Haven, CT}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * Diana Agrest/Mario Gandelsonas, January 2–30, 1981<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Diana Agrest / Mario Gandelsonas: Exhibition: January 2–30, 1981|date=1981|pages=22 pages: illustrations, plans|publisher=Yale School of Architecture|location=New Haven, Connecticut|oclc=214299291}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Diana Agrest/Mario Gandelsonas : exhibition Jan. 2-30, 1981, Yale School of Architecture.|date=1981|pages=22, [2] pages: chiefly illustrations; 22 x 28 cm|url=https://www.worldcat.org|publisher=Yale School of Architecture|location=New Haven|oclc=10109788}}</ref> * Raimund Abraham, Collisions, October 26 – December 4, 1981<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli, Curator|first1=George|title=Raimund Abraham, Collisions|date=1981|location=Yale School of Architecture, Art and Architecture Gallery|page=24}}</ref> * Helmut Jahn, November 1 – December 3, 1982<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Helmut Jahn: A Yale School of Architecture Exhibition: November 1 – October 3, Yale School of Architecture, Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut 1982|date=1982|pages=20|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, Connecticut}}</ref> * Gaetano Pesce, October 31 – December 2, 1982<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Gaetano Pesce: A Yale School of Architecture Exhibition: October 31 – December 2, 1982|date=1982|pages=24|publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Connecticut}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Martin|first1=Douglas|title=Spring In La Cite|url=https://www.nytimes.com|work=The New York Times|date=April 22, 1984}}</ref> * Carlo Scarpa: Drawings for the Brion Family Cemetery, October 22 – November 23, 1984<ref>{{cite news|last1=Charles|first1=Eleanor|title=Connecticut Guide|url=https://www.nytimes.com|work=The New York Times|date=October 21, 1984}}</ref> {{refend}}

; Architecture Department, City College of New York {{refbegin|50em}} * Architecture With and Without Le Corbusier: José Oubrerie Architect, 2010<ref>{{cite book|title=Architecture with and without Le Corbusier: José Oubrerie Architect|date=2013}}</ref> * Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli, 2011–2012<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Filler|first1=Martin|title=Dates & Events|journal=Architectural Record|date=May 2012|volume=200|issue=5|page=216}}</ref> * James Wines: A Line Around an Idea, September 20, 2012 - April 5, 2013<ref>{{cite news|last1=Menkin|first1=James|title=Review: The Mind In Hand|url=https://www.archpaper.com/2013/06/the-mind-in-hand/|publisher=The Architect's Newspaper|date=June 7, 2013|access-date=May 28, 2024}}</ref> * Building the Modern Gothic: George B. Post at City College, February 4, 2013 – May 5, 2014<ref>{{cite book|author1=George Ranalli|author-link1=George Ranalli|editor1-last=City University of New York|title=Building the modern Gothic: George Post at City College|date=2013|pages=53 pages: chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits, plans, facsimiles; 26 cm|url=https://www.worldcat.org|publisher=CUNY|location=New York, NY|format=exh. cat.|oclc=871036277}}</ref> * La Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Unfinished Masterpiece, Geometry, Construction and Site, September 2014 – May 2015<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Bernstein|first1=Fed A.|title=Gaudi Isn't the Focus, and That's the Point|url=http://www.architecturalrecord.com|magazine=Architectural Record|date=October 2, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Jiménez|first1=Vincent|last2=País|first2=El|title=New York Falls in Love with Gaudí's Complexity|url=http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature459.htm|publisher=ArchNewsNow}}</ref> {{refend}}

=== Monographic publications === * Ranalli, G. (2015) ''In Situ: George Ranalli Works & Projects.'' Shinzen, China: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Abercrombie|first1=Stanley|title=Books: George Ranalli Works & Projects|magazine=Interior Design|date=June 1, 2014|volume=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=In Situ: George Ranalli Works & Projects|publisher=Oscar Riera Ojeda|location=Shinzen China|isbn=9789881619471|pages=487 pages, [9] pages: colored illustrations, plans; 22 cm x 25 cm. + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)|edition= 1st|date=September 2015}}</ref> * Ranalli, G. (2009) ''Saratoga.'' San Raphael, CA: ORO Editions.<ref>{{cite news|title=Community Building: Saratoga Avenue Community Center by George Ranalli, Architect|url=http://www.archnewsnow.com|publisher=ArchNewsNow|date=January 14, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Saratoga|date=2009|publisher=ORO Editions|location=San Rafael, Calif.|isbn=9780981462882|pages=111 pages: chiefly illustrations (some color), plans; 24 cm}}</ref> * Ranalli, G. (1999) ''Casas Internacional: George Ranalli,'' Oscar Riera Ojeda (ed.). Buenos Aires: Kliczowski Publishers.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Abercrombie|first1=Stanley|title=Casas Internacional: George Ranalli.(Review)|magazine=Interior Design|date=July 1, 1999|volume=70|page=97}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Riera Ojeda|editor1-first=Oscar|title=Casa Internacional: George Ranalli|date=1998|volume=57|pages=71 pages: color illustrations, plans; 24 cm|url=https://www.worldcat.org|series=Casas|publisher=Kliczkowski Publisher|location=Madrid, Spain|language=es, en|oclc=51379793}}</ref> * Ranalli, G. (1990) ''Tokushū: Jōji Ranari = Special feature: George Ranalli.'' Tokyo, Japan: A + U Publishing Co., Ltd.<ref>{{cite magazine|editor1-last=Nakamura|editor1-first=Toshio|title=Special Feature = George Ranalli|magazine=Architecture and Urbanism|date=1990|volume=8|issue=239|pages=71–126|url=https://www.worldcat.org|language=en, ja|oclc=23880409}}</ref> * Ranalli, G. (1990) ''Bauten und Projekte = Constructions et Projets.'' Zürich: Verlag für Architektur Artemis.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=Bauten und Projekte = Constructions et projets|date=1990|publisher=Verl. für Architektur Artemis|location=Zurich|isbn=978-3760880747|pages=116 S.: überwiegend ill., graph. Darst.; 28 cm|language=de}}</ref> * Ranalli, G. (1988) ''George Ranalli: Buildings and Projects.'' New York: Princeton Architectural Press.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Abercrombie|first1=Stanley|title=George Ranalli: Buildings and Projects|magazine=Interior Design|date=November 1, 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=George Ranalli: buildings and projects|date=1988|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|location=New York, N.Y.|isbn=978-0910413428|pages=107 p.: ill.; 28 cm|edition= 1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ranalli|first1=George|title=George Ranalli: buildings and projects|date=1988|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0910413428|pages=107 pages: illustrations; 28 cm|edition= 1st|url=https://www.worldcat.org}}</ref>

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<ref name="St. Michael Yearbook 1964">''Mountaineer'' (high school yearbook: 1964) Mount Saint Michael Academy: Bronx, New York. p. 74 (viewable via ''e-yearbook.com''. Digital Data Online, Inc: Burlingame, California).</ref>

<ref name="Metropolis 2010 Nov">Szenasy, Susan S. (November 2010). [http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/November-2010/Q-A-George-Ranalli/ "Q&A: George Ranalli"].''Metropolis''. Bellerophon Publications, Inc.: New York, New York. Retrieved July 22, 2015</ref>

<ref name="Yale Bulletin 97–98">{{cite magazine|date=June 30, 1997 |title=Faculty Biographies: George J. Ranalli |magazine=Bulletin of Yale University, School of Architecture, 1997–1998 |volume=93 |issue=3 |pages=70 }}</ref>

<ref name="Yale Bulletin 98–99">{{cite magazine |date=June 30, 1999 |title=1977–1985, Yale School of Architecture, Exhibitions: George Ranalli: Recent Works |magazine=Bulletin of Yale University, School of Architecture, 1998–1999 |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=70 }}</ref>

<ref name="Porter1993">{{cite book|last=Porter|first=Tom|title=Architectural Drawing Masterclass: Graphic Techniques of the World's Leading Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1A9QAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Charles Scribner's|isbn=978-0-684-19521-6|page=1931}}</ref>

<ref name="Interior Design 2002 May 1">Abercrombie, Stanley (book review; May 1, 2002) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924164810/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-87460261.html "U.S. Design: 1975-2000"] (Exhibition Tour, Denver Art Museum, February–May 2002 ... Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, November 2003–February 2004)". ''Interior Design''; {{ISSN|0020-5508}}</ref>

<ref name=getty>[http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500056726 ID: 500056726: Ranalli, George (American architect, born 1946)]. Getty Research: Union List of Artist Names Online. Accessed September 2015.</ref>

<ref name="Rhode Island History 1983">[https://archive.org/stream/rhodeislandbibli00unse#page/86/mode/2up Item 1900: "William E. Boggs,"] ''Bibliographies of New England History: Rhode Island'' (''Rhode Island'' is Vol. 5 of 8), Roger Neal Parks, PhD (born 1936) (ed.), University Press of New England (1983); pg. 86; {{oclc|9758808}}</ref>

<ref name="e-Occulus 2010 Oct 26">[http://www.aiany.org/eOCULUS/2010/2010-10-26.html "Names in the News,"] ''e-Occulus'' (magazine of AIA New York Chapter), October 26, 2010</ref>

<ref name="Ranalli Chair Met Accn N° 1990.306">''[http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/485512 Valentine 2 Chair]'' (1990)<br />Met Museum exhibition history:<div style="margin-left:2em">"Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900–Present, Part II"<div style="margin-left:2em">May 23, 2011 – July 1, 2012</div> "A Century of Design, Part IV: 1975–2000"<div style="margin-left:2em">June 25, 2001 – January 6, 2002<br />{{oclc|429605724}}</div></div>Met Museum Accession N° 1990.306 (1990)</ref>

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