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Overview
At GLUCK+, design matters and building matters. Better buildings result when architects take on the construction process. Our approach to Architect Led Design Build ensures that the built solution is done right.
The name change from Peter Gluck and Partners Architects to GLUCK+ recognizes that our practice has always been inclusive. From designer to builder to owner to developer, we do what it takes and care how it’s done. “Outside our scope” is not in our vocabulary.
Our work is diverse and recognized worldwide through national and international design awards and publications. Our range of projects–from houses, schools, religious buildings, community centers to hotels, university buildings, recreation centers, and historic restorations—are all unique because each project is specific. We are dedicated to advocating for the wants and needs of our clients.
It is their stories we want to tell.
Architect Led Design Build
Architect Led Design Build is single-source responsibility for design, construction and commissioning of buildings. Typically, an owner hires an architect to draw a building and a contractor to oversee the subcontractors that will build the building. This separation is adverse for the quality and cost of building. Project stakeholders lose out.
Architect Led Design Build is an agile process in which the same people are responsible for an entire building project. Our architects are also construction managers, meaning feedback between method of construction and design is fluid and responsive. Priorities between design, cost and schedule are clear. Creativity is responsible.
Architectural Services
Typically an owner makes decisions about their project before an architect is involved. What is the program? Where is the site? How will it affect my budget?
As architects and builders, we have tools that are critical for navigating early unknowns, such as assessing the feasibility of a project and vetting real estate opportunities. We are in a position to help clients strategically plan their project, to determine how much space they actually need, and to test-fit their project on potential sites. We also consider construction options that affect the economic viability of the project.
Ultimately these early decisions are up to project owners, but we can serve as a valuable resource to clarify options.
Development
Expanding our role allows us to initiate projects that otherwise could not afford to exist.
We consider sites that developers typically shy away from because our experience as architects and builders allows us to find the feasible opportunity. We can consider building uses that are generally deemed non-profitable, such as middle-income housing, because we are also in a position to pair them with less typical, more economic methods of building, such as offsite construction.
Having the wherewithal to find and make projects is not just an opportunity to build better buildings, but to contribute to building a better urban fabric.
We believe coming from the private realm, we have the responsibility to do our part in enriching the lives of people and communities. The integration of our approach to architecture allows us to do that.
Peter L. Gluck
Principal
Peter Gluck received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1965. After designing a series of houses from York to Newfoundland, he went to Tokyo to design large projects for a leading Japanese construction consortium. This experience influenced Gluck’s later work both in his knowledge of Japan’s traditional aesthetics and of its efficient modern methods of integrated construction and design. His firm, Peter Gluck and Partners in New York, has been designing and building throughout the country since 1972, joined in 1992 by ARCS, a construction-management firm, established to build the firm’s designs, and in 1997 by Aspen GK, Inc., a development partnership, founded to produce well-designed, high-quality speculative housing.
Exhibitions of Gluck’s award-winning work have been held in the U.S. and Japan, and he is widely published in architectural journals around the world. He has taught at Columbia and Yale schools of architecture, and curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Milan Triennale.
Thomas Gluck
Principal
Thomas Gluck joined ARCS and Peter Gluck and Partners as Associate Principal in 2005.
Mr. Gluck has overseen the design and construction of numerous projects in New York City and around the country. Among other projects, he is currently managing a 500,000 SF mixed-use urban development in Harlem. Prior to joining Peter Gluck & Partners, Mr. Gluck worked with Herzog and de Meuron as the onsite project manager for the design and construction of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Mr. Gluck has published articles in the Architectural Research Quarterly and Restrospecta. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Harvard College and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.
Charlie Kaplan
LEED AP
Principal
Charlie Kaplan joined ARCS Construction Services in 1996 as Construction Manager and Peter Gluck and Partners as a designer in 1997. He became associate principal in 1999.
As the lead housing architect in our office, Mr. Kaplan, AIA LEED certified, has been involved in the design of sustainable housing projects throughout the U.S. He was a partner with Peter Gluck in the purchase, development, design and construction of award winning affordable housing in Aspen, Colorado, built as a turn-key project for the City of Aspen.
Mr. Kaplan was a lecturer at the 2007 Annual Colorado Preservation Conference, a collaboration between the Aspen and Telluride Historic Preservation departments and a former trustee and longtime member of the campus building committee for Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont.
Mr. Kaplan earned a BA from Williams College, a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Colorado, and spent time studying at the Architectural Association in London.
Stacie Wong
Principal
Stacie Wong joined Peter Gluck and Partners in 2001 as Associate Principal.
As the lead architect for school design in our office, Ms. Wong has been involved in many school projects in New York City. Most recently she acted as project manager and on-site construction supervisor for the AIA award winning East Harlem School. Among other projects, she has extensive experience with school feasibility studies at both the grade school and university level.
Ms. Wong received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. She was a member of the Yale Building Project and was a research assistant in the Yale Urban Design Workshop participating in an Urban Density and Neighborhood Revitalization study.
Marc Gee
Principal
Marc Gee joined Peter Gluck and Partners in 1998 as a construction manager for ARCS Construction Services, the construction management arm of Peter Gluck and Partners. He became Associate Principal in 2000.
Mr. Gee is our most experienced construction expert having built most of our projects in New York City totaling over $20M. Most recently Mr. Gee was the on-site constructability and technical detail expert for the East Harlem School. The project was completed on time with a guaranteed maximum price for its construction of $330/SF, about half of what the New York City schools are costing. In addition we returned $500,000 of unused contingencies to the school. The school was awarded an award for design excellence from the Boston Society of Architects (AIA Boston).
Mr. Gee is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic University and State University with a Bachelor of Architecture.
Andy Fawcett
Andy Fawcett received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University and his Master of Architecture from Illinois Institute of Technology. Andy's previous experience has included custom furniture fabrication, mechanical engineering on large industrial manufacturing plants, and a range of design build experience on residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Andy was part of the construction management team onsite for the Cascade House on Lake Michigan.
Barrett Feldman
Barrett Feldman received her undergraduate degree in art with a concentration in architecture from Wesleyan University and her Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Barrett was a Fulbright Fellow in Tokyo doing urban research. Barrett has over 8 years of previous design experience for large-scale public institutional projects, university buildings and parks; in New York City, Atlanta, and Austin.
Bethia Liu
Bethia Liu received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Barnard College and her Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Bethia has worked as a professional modelmaker, graphic designer, and architect. After designing and managing an outdoor citywide interactive arts exhibition for ATHENS 2004, Bethia joined the firm in 2005. Her architectural work in the office includes designing and managing construction for the Little Ajax Affordable Housing in Aspen, The East Harlem School and Lakeside Retreat in New York. Since 2009, Bethia has managed the firm's public relations/press and marketing. She is involved with the firm's business development, and is Director of Strategic Projects. She art directs, writes, and manages the creative team to produce multimedia stories about GLUCK+.
Birgit Garland
Birgit Garland received her education at the Städtische Berufsschule für Bürokaufleute in Munich. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Birgit worked in administrative services for the publishing industry and international financial services sector for 15 years. Birgit has since served as business manager for the company.
Brian Novello
Brian Novello received his Bachelor of Architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the firm, Brian's previous design experience has included projects ranging from infrastructural, transportation, industrial, hospitality, civic, and commercial buildings, in the New York/New Jersey area and Texas.
Charles Gosrisirikul
Charles Gosrisirikul received his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. Charles has over 9 years of previous design experience on international metropolitan projects from China to Spain to the United Arab Emirates; including high-rise mixed-use development, institutional, and residential projects.
Charlie Able
Charlie Able received his Bachelor of Science from Kent State University and his Master of Architecture from Columbia University. He is currently also an adjunct professor teaching intermediate computation and fabrication at City University of New York. Charlie has previous design experience for institutional interiors, residential ground-up projects and digital fabrication for custom millwork.
Chris Patneau
Chris Patneau received his Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University. Prior to joining the firm, Chris' design experience has included campus master planning, science and research buildings, and public schools in New York City.
Claire Dub
Claire Dub received her undergraduate degree in Urban Studies, Visual Arts and Art History from the University of Toronto and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University. She is well-versed in visual storytelling, as part of the creative team to craft stories about GLUCK+ projects and working process. Claire writes, illustrates and designs graphics for videos, print and website content.
Cory Collman
Cory Collman received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. While at Yale, Cory was a teaching and construction assistant for the Yale Building Project. He currently also teaches environmental design at Parsons School of Design. Cory's previous design experience includes residential and commercial projects in New York City and Chicago. Cory was on the project team for the House in the Mountains in Colorado.
Eddie Kung
Eddie Kung received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University. Prior to joining the firm, Eddie was a principal at Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture. Eddie brings over 15 years of experience designing for educational and institutional buildings, including public schools, large-scale complex building types for higher education, performing arts spaces, student unions, and libraries. Eddie has supervised the LEED certification process on multiple projects to LEED Gold and Silver standards.
Elijah Porter
Elijah Porter received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Swarthmore College and his Masters in Architecture from Yale University. During his graduate studies, Elijah was a teaching and construction assistant for the Yale Building Project. Elijah has 6 years of design experience in large-scale institutional and residential projects in the New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.
Eric Schaefer
Eric Schaefer received both his undergraduate degree in environmental design and his Master of Architecture from Montana State University. Eric joined the firm in 2006, following 7 years of leading construction teams for William Massie Architects. Eric has since led the construction management teams full-time onsite for numerous New York projects including the Pool Pavilion, Lakeside Retreat, and In Haven Residence.
Jim True
Jim True received his Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University. Jim joined the firm in 2004, with 6 years of residential experience in the Chicago area. Jim led the construction management team full-time onsite, from construction through commissioning, for the Cascade House in Chicago.
Jin Kim
Jin Kim received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Catholic University of America. Jin has over 7 years design experience in small to large scale residential projects, commercial, hospitality and government buildings in the Washington metropolitan area.
Kathy Chang
Kathy Chang received her undergraduate degree in architecture from Yale College and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University. Kathy was a 2003 winner of Common Ground and The Architectural League of New York's "First Step Housing" Competition. Kathy joined the firm in 2005 and contributed to Bronx Charter Preparatory School, followed by The East Harlem School. Kathy recently managed the project team from design through construction for the Lakeside Retreat in New York.
Kelly Barlow
Kelly Barlow received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia, and her Master of Architecture from Rice University. Kelly was involved with the design/build project, the ecoMOD preHAB house at the University of Virginia. She also received a Rice Design Alliance Initiatives for Houston grant for Emergency Core, a project that explores an affordable and easily transportable alternative for disaster relief. Kelly has previous design experience in institutional, commercial and residential projects in New York State.
Leia Price
Leia Price received her Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University. While at the Rural Studio, she designed and built the Newbern Volunteer Fire Station. Since 2006, Leia has managed construction onsite for the Cascade House in Chicago, and then in North Carolina, leading the architect led design build team onsite for the Blue Ridge House, from construction through commissioning. Leia was also on the design team for the Orange Beach Arts Center Master Plan.
Luke Winata
Luke Winata received her Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. Luke's previous work experience includes residential projects in the New York City area. She joined the firm in 2007, and has been part of the architect team in the office and construction management team onsite for Blue Ridge House in North Carolina, and the 4th St Loft in Manhattan.
Malena Ng
Malena Ng received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture with a Minor in Architectural Studies from the University of Washington, and a Master of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Malena has previous architectural design experience in the Chicago area for cultural and institutional buildings, and residences, including the restoration of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Chicago.
Marc Pittsley
Marc Pittsley received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University. Marc's previous work experience includes Boston transit and infrastructure projects, and 12 years in New York City on small to large scale residential, institutional, commercial, and retail projects. Marc has considerable experience with Landmarks Review, the Public Design Commission Review and ULURP in New York City. Marc has also taught in the Columbia University Masters of Science Real Estate Development program.
Marisa Kolodny
Marisa Kolodny received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and her Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Prior to joining the firm in in 2007, Marisa worked in the internet industry for over 5 years. She has since contributed to the Blue Ridge House in North Carolina, Tower House in Upstate New York, and the Urban Redevelopment project in Harlem.
Mike Killeen
Mike Killeen received his Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University. Mike's previous design experience includes residential, institutional, and infrastructural projects in Iowa State.
Rikako Wakabayashi
Rikako Wakabayashi received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan and her Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Her previous design experience includes residential projects in Japan. Rikako was a First Prize winner in the Envisioning Gateway International Competition co-sponsored by the Van Alen Institute, National Parks Conservation and Columbia University. She was on the design team for a residence in Maui and the Orange Beach Arts Center Master Plan.
Robert Wall
Robert Wall received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo and University of Leeds, and his Master of Architecture from McGill University. Robert has collaborated with various artists on the design and construction of site specific installations and performances, including Mary Mattingly's recent 'Flockhouse' project. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Robert's design experience was primarily for mid to large scale institutional projects in New York City. Robert has contributed to the Pool Pavilion and Rado Redux projects in New York, and the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the Bronx.
Ross Galloway
Ross Galloway received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his Master of Architecture from University of Texas at Austin. Ross' previous experience includes large scale commercial projects in the Washington, D.C. area. After an internship during his graduate studies, Ross returned to join the firm the following year.
Randy Rubin
Randy Rubin received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He wrote and directed the recent film, Seymour, screened in the First Run Film Festival at the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in 2012. Randy shoots, edits and sound designs on the creative team producing video stories about GLUCK+ projects and working process.
Sam Currie
Sam Currie received his Bachelors in Architecture from Auburn University and is a 2005 alumni of the Rural Studio. Sam joined the firm in 2008 and was onsite full-time managing construction for the Blue Ridge House. Since returning to the New York office, he has contributed to the Orange Beach Arts Center Master Plan, Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, and the Central Queens Academy Charter School.
Scott Scales
Scott Scales received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arkansas. Prior to joining the firm, Scott had 9 years of previous work experience on residential, institutional and commercial projects in Arizona and Arkansas. Scott has since contributed to the Urban Townhouse in New York, House in the Mountains in Colorado, and the urban redevelopment project in Harlem.
Shannon Bambenek
Shannon Bambenek received her Bachelor of Architecture from University of Texas at Austin. After interning for a summer in 2006, Shannon returned to join the firm the following year, and has since contributed on numerous projects, including The East Harlem School, Pool Pavilion, Legal Outreach, and Rado Redux.
Stephane Derveaux
Stephane Derveaux received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy in France. Previously, Stephane had 7 years international architectural design experience on large-scale mixed-use commercial, institutional and residential projects in France, Germany, the Netherlands, China and Singapore; he was also senior designer and project architect for a large-scale museum plaza project in Kentucky. Stephane joined the firm in 2007, and has been project architect on numerous residential projects in Florida and East Hampton, New York, and later, the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the Bronx.
Steve Preston
Steve Preston received his both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Structural Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, followed by a Masters in Architecture from MIT. Steve has previous engineering design experience for kinetic architecture and architectural design experience on institutional projects.
Susan Park
Susan Park received her undergraduate degree in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and her Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute.
Tami Kinsler
Tami Kinsler received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Writing from the University of Tampa. With over 20 years of administrative experience for architecture firms, Tami joined the firm in 2008. She is office manager for the firm and also manages administrative support for the firm's construction management on site.
Ted Lin
Ted Lin received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Bio-Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Ted's previous work experience includes large-scale mixed-use developments, cultural buildings and interior renovations in New York, California, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Wade Splinter
Wade Splinter received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign and his Master in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. Previously, Wade had 6 years of large-scale mixed-use residential and commercial projects in London, United Kingdom, and a single-family house in the Ozarks, Missouri.
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- Interni
- May 2013
- The Tower House
"I have already said that we spent hours and hours in the trees not for utilitarian motives, as so many youths are prone to do, who climb trees to look for fruit or birds' nests, but for the pleasure of negotiating the troublesome bulges and forks, to get as high up as possible, to find the best spots in which to rest and gaze at the world below us. To play pranks and to shout to those passing underneath." This is how the young Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò of the "Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino speaks of his choice of going to live in the treetops, after a futile argument with his father. -
- Metropolis Magazine POV Blog
- April 2013
- Expanding the Scope of Architectural Thinking
On Monday night, a crowd of 200 assembled at a construction site in Harlem for the first panel in a series called "Changing Architecture." The discussion, moderated by Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan S. Szenasy, focused on the need for architects to develop a wider skill set that will enable them to take a more involved role in the building process of their projects. Among the evening's panelists was Peter Gluck, founder and principal at the firm Gluck+. He is a strong believer in architects getting their hands dirty at the construction site, working with communities, and being held responsible for a project coming in on budget. He remarked that "Architectural thinking is seen as a luxury item not relevant to the real needs of the development process...Architects need to acquire multi-faceted knowledge and accept previously shunned responsibilities in order to change this perception." -
- Financial Times Magazine
- April 2013
- Independence Stay
An increasing desire to house visiting friends and family in privacy has given rise to striking stand-alone spaces that double as anything from a pool house to a music room. Dominic Bradbury reports on a forward-looking generation of guest lodges. One of the great pleasures of having a beautifully designed home is sharing it with others, and in an age when friends and family are often spread far and wide, entertaining house guests has attained a special level of importance. Small wonder, then, that architects and their clients are approaching the business of creating inviting spaces for visiting friends and family with new enthusiasm and a fresh eye. And hence the rise of an ambitious generation of guest lodges: self-contained retreats set apart from main residences which have a sense of delight all of their own. -
- Architectural Record
- April 2013
- A Stairway to the Treetops
A Stairway to the Treetops: A chameleonlike house--which changes with the seasons and throughout the day--provides a perch for total immersion in the surrounding woods. Architecture need not always be serious. And nowhere is lightheartedness more fitting than in a vacation house. One such playful example is the Tower House--a 2,500-square-foot structure on a sloping, wooded site in Ulster County, New York, about 100 miles north of Manhattan. Designed by New York City--based Gluck+ as the mountain retreat for one of the firm's principals, Thomas Gluck; his wife, Anne Langston; and their two children, the house resembles a cross between a Modernist skyscraper and a tree house. It is completely glass-clad and has three bedrooms and adjoining baths stacked one on top of the other to support a living and dining room cantilevered 30 feet from the ground. A switchback stair, with bright-yellow treads and risers, connects all four levels and leads to a rooftop deck. The goal, says Gluck, was to create an aerie within the trees and take advantage of views of nearby Catskill Park, a vast state forest preserve. -
- World-Architects eMagazine
- April 2013
- Architects House Themselves
There exists a long tradition of architects designing houses for themselves, many of them becoming historically notable works of architecture because of experimentation, a mix of living and working spaces, and an obviously unique architect-client relationship. Think of Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio in Oak Park and his Taliesin estates in Wisconsin and Arizona; Alvar Aalto's house in Helsinki; Walter Gropius's house ten miles from Harvard; the Charles and Ray Eames House in California; Luis Barragán's House and Studio outside Mexico City; Frank Gehry's exploded bungalow in Santa Monica. The list of architects and houses goes on, with pre-20th-century examples found in Thomas Jefferson's plantation home at Monticello and Sir John Soane's house-museum in London, to name just two. -
- The New York Times
- March 2013
- More Units Going Up In a Snap
A vacant lot on Broadway between Academy and 204th Streets in Inwood is littered with rubble and concrete pilings. But in a matter of weeks, this 50-foot-wide sand pit will be transformed into a seven-story apartment building, with finished bathrooms, maple cabinetry and 10 terraces. It is not a magic trick, but rather the result of modular, or prefabricated, construction. A technique in which a building is manufactured piecemeal on a factory assembly line, trucked to the construction site and erected much the way Legos are, modular construction is gaining popularity across New York City. -
- Domus
- March 2013
- Making Room
An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York attempts to disrupt the city's present housing situation, exposing the key housing regulations and policies and reinforcing the ambition to produce real and tangible change. An architecture report from New York by Leigha Dennis.Housing in New York City is not easy to find. That is no secret. The city's population is at its highest and steadily increasing. In the next 20 years, the population is expected to grow by roughly 600,000 people, and yet housing conditions are already compromised. Many New Yorkers are living in illegal and often unsafe shared and informal arrangements. But what will happen when more people must squeeze in? Where will they live? How will the city make room? -
- The New York Times
- February 2013
- School Plans Its 17th Move, but Its First Since 1892
After debating nearly seven years about where to move, the board of the Collegiate School, New York City’s oldest and one of its most prestigious private schools, announced Tuesday that it had purchased land for a new building between West 61st and 62nd Streets and between West End Avenue and Riverside Boulevard. It will be the 17th move for the school since its founding in New Amsterdam in 1628, but the first since 1892, when the West End Collegiate Church and the Collegiate School moved to the Upper West Side. -
- Das Ideale Heim
- February 2013
- Rank & Schlank
“If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" sings Frank Sinatra, and the Peter Gluck and Partners team has designed and built a spacious, bright townhouse on a 122-square-meter plot in Manhattan. […] The new home seems to be “snuck in-between” historic buildings on either side, two traditional townhouses that appear to forgivingly embrace the newcomer.The new building’s requirement for open, loft-like interiors with room to breathe, led to the design of the house’s façade and a complete re-envisioning of the configuration of the architectural plan of a typical townhouse.The house itself is a “gap filler,” and the stair’s glass railings demand, once again, outside-the-box thinking -
- Domus
- October 2012
- Affordable by Design
When it comes to affordable housing in New York, the strongest arguments for better design are often not architectural but political or economical. Recent work by Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw, Jonathan Kirschenfeld, Peter Gluck and Partners, and SHoP Architects contribute significantly to redefining the ins and outs of social housing in the heartland of capitalism. This past July, 100 decision makers from the sectors of policy, finance, real-estate development and design gathered for a 1-day session on the 47th floor of the Deutsche Bank's Wall street office in new York to discuss strategies aimed at "Lowering the Cost to Develop and Sustain Affordable Housing". With the backdrop of Grank Gehry's recent -
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- September 2012
- Changing Skyline: Old City plan deserves praise, not opposition
Forget the government's economic indicators. You know that Philadelphia's real-estate market is coming out of the doldrums when an old-time, bare-knuckle skyscraper fight breaks out in Old City.The scene is a familiar one: a surface lot at Second and Race Streets, hard by the Ben Franklin Bridge and the ramp to I-95. Back in the heat of the condo boom, Brown/Hill Development tried to transform the site into real-estate gold by hiring a big-name New York firm, SHoP Architects. They produced one of the city's best designs of the period, an accommodating 110-foot-high midrise. The Old City Civic Association loved it, but the market collapsed before it was built. -
- The Architect's Newspaper
- August 2012
- Race Street Rising
Last week Philadelphia’s new zoning code went into effect, but projects nurtured under the old code may still be rising. Just yesterday, architect Peter Gluck presented a tower proposal to the Old City Civic Association for a 16-story building adjacent to the Ben Franklin Bridge. Because the zoning permits were filed last month the building is subject to old code.Gluck’s presentation of 205 Race Street soured when new renderings revealed that an early proposal by SHoP Architects, initially approved at a 100-foot height, had morphed into a 197-foot tower that sets back from Race Street, PlanPhilly reported. The group voted 11 to 1 to oppose the project. -
- The Architect's Newspaper
- July 2012
- Tennis Architecture from Newport to the Bronx
Teddy Roosevelt once remarked on the commercialization of sports: “When money comes in at the gate, the game goes out the window.” With Wimbledon in high gear and tennis at the Olympics looming, tennis is getting more than its share of commercial attention lately. Just last month the United States Tennis Association announced it would spend a half billion dollars to upgrade the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Queens, where the U.S. Open is played. The project is linked to the $3 billion Willets Point project. -
- The Architect's Newspaper
- June 2012
- Studio Visit>Peter Gluck and Partners
At a recent competition to design a vertical campus for the prestigious Collegiate School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, several well-known New York firms showed up with snazzy renderings in hand. Peter Gluck did not bring a proposal. When asked by the selection committee why he arrived empty-handed, he responded, “How can we give you a solution when we don’t know the problem yet.” Gluck got the job. -
- Metropolis
- January 2012
- Building as Business
Peter Gluck & Partners and Tocci Construction have developed innovative approaches to project delivery; more broadly, they have shifted the relationship between architect and contractor. Not for them is the typical separation between architect and contractor with its daily time lags, as one party communicates information to the other. It is a well-known fact in the industry that this piece-meal process ultimately creates change orders and cost overruns. -
- Architectural Record
- November 2011
- House of the Month
Some minimalist architects boast that given enough money, they can make their architecture almost disappear. Although that claim seems to go against normal expectations about what so many architects really like to do, it often tempts those faced with a large program and sensitive site.Peter Gluck, for example, argues that creating an “experience” rather than building a visibly defined object should be an architect’s supreme goal. -
- The New York Times
- November 2011
- Imagining Housing for Today
Bronx Park East opened last year opposite the New York Botanical Garden. It consists of a five-story brick pavilion with triple-height windows facing the street, and a seven-story wing for 68 small studio apartments. “A good neighbor,” is how its designer, Jonathan Kirschenfeld, described the building’s look. Serious architecture is another way to describe Bronx Park East. It is a single-room occupancy residence, an S.R.O., -
- Metropolis
- September 2011
- Elegant Solution
All houses have a story. This house has a saga. Call it the Three Ages of Architecture: modern, postmodern, and contemporary. The end result is a 4,600-square-foot house with six bedrooms, a home office, and a playroom, its upper story cantilevered over a picturesque Westchester County ravine. In the summer, from the road, the house seems to float in the trees—unlike its hulking neighbors. But it took the work of two sets of determined architects, first in 1958 and then in 2010, to make it look this easy. -
- Financial Times UK
- August 2011
- Exceptions That Roof the Pool
Homes are constantly borrowing bright ideas from luxury hotels. There’s the super-indulgent bathroom, the home spa and the sophisticated bedroom that feels generous and seductive enough to double as an extra sitting room and a private retreat. Add also the notion of a tempting indoor pool that can be used all year round and happens to be beautifully crafted and exquisitely detailed. No wonder, then, that the architect-designed pool house is enjoying a period of high demand, expressed in a series of fresh, innovative and highly individual buildings. -
- Architectural Digest
- April 2011
- Lake Effect
Neighboring estates in this suburb of Chicago often announce their presence with showy turrets or columned façades, but Cascade House, a lakeside residence designed by New York architecture firm Peter Gluck and Partners, makes a more discreet impression. From its front drive, all one sees is a stack of two glass boxes: one transparent, one translucent. The rest of this home—true to its name—drops out of view, gently terracing down toward the waters of Lake Michigan. -
- Architectural Digest
- April 2011
- Q+A: Peter Gluck
Palatial houses can be surprisingly modest. At least, that’s the philosophy of Peter Gluck, an acclaimed modernist who has spent the past 38 years creating extraordinary residences that make as little impact on the land as possible. One is featured in the April issue of Architectural Digest: A glass-walled house Peter Gluck and Partners, Architects designed for clients in Illinois, complete with a basketball court, spa, garage,… -
- Design Bureau
- January 2011
- Designing to Build
According to architect Peter Gluck, the traditional method of designing and constructing buildings is inherently flawed: architects don’t know how to build and contractors don’t understand design. So when Gluck started his architecture firm, Peter Gluck and Partners, he did so with the goal of fixing this broken process. “When architects construct buildings, it’s common knowledge that there are problems; they take too long to build, they leak, they’re over budget. But we really understand construction,” Gluck says…. -
- Urban Omnibus
- February 2010
- The East Harlem School at Exodus House
Recently the staff of the Architectural League had the opportunity to visit The East Harlem School at Exodus House, an independent middle school on East 103rd St. EHS co-founders and brothers Hans and Ivan Hageman grew up on the site when Exodus House was a residential drug rehabilitation center, founded in 1963 and run by their parents. Growing up in East Harlem while attending the prestigious Collegiate School,… -
- Metropolis
- January 2010
- The Pride of East 103rd Street
Ivan Hageman wasn’t sold on the design. He feared anything modern. He didn’t like the method the architect was pushing—design-build, in which a single firm stewards everything from the first conceptual drawing to the last layer of paint. It seemed foreign and vaguely suspect. And above all, he thought that the architect, Peter Gluck, was a bit of a jerk. “Peter was somewhat loutish, somewhat rude, somewhat devil-may-care: ‘Either you’re going to go with me or not,’” Hageman says in his second-floor office, which overlooks, like a happy panopticon, the street outside the private school he helms. Recalling their first meeting, in 2004, with the school’s board of trustees, he says, “At the end of the meeting … the chair of the board said, ‘I agree with you, Ivan. He does seem kind of difficult. He reminds me of someone you’ve worked closely with over the years.’ I said, ‘Who?’ She said, ‘You.’” -
- Taschen
- June 2009
- GREEN Architecture Now!
Peter Gluck received both his B.Arch (1962) and M.Arch (1965) degrees from Yale University. He founded his present firm in New York in 1972. He has been chairman of AR/CS Architectural Construction Services, a firm that integrates architectural design and construction, since 1992. He is also a co-founder of Aspen GK (1997), a development partnership intended to build "well-designed high-quality housing)" -
- Architectural Design
- April 2009
- An Enthusiastic Sceptic
The sceptic, if he or she does his or her job correctly, is critical to the productive evolution of any movement, and as we embark on the Building Information Modeling (BIM) revolution, it is worth asking a few questions. We embrace the promise of BIM-- born from the notion of collaboration between disciplines and the integration of design-- and recognize it as a paradigm shift in an industry that has spent too much of the past century trying to separate consultants on the same design team, to clarify liability and to shed responsibility. -
- The Wall Street Journal
- October 2008
- Architect Contractors Gain High End Following
Despite the financial crisis and the housing slump, the phone is still ringing in Peter Gluck's office. "We're OK for now," says Mr. Gluck, whose office of 50 architects specializes in high-end residences costing $5 million and up. That may be explained by the fact that Mr. Gluck and his associates aren't just architects for their homes. They're the general contractors as well, unlocking gates in the morning and stepping onto scaffolds to direct construction. -
- Phaidon Press Ltd
- October 2008
- The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architects
The form of the residential complex is a direct response to Aspen's need for communal family units, on-site parking and public trail connections. It consists of a two-storey block facing the street, and a three-storey volume behind, which climbs up the base of the mountain and is oriented along an adjacent public hiking trail. -
- The Modern Impulse
- January 2008
- Monograph
The Modern Impulse is a book about modern architecture – a book about buildings conceived and constructed from the perspective of what their award-winning architect, Peter L. Gluck, defines as “the modern impulse.”Committed to the principled practice of modernism, Gluck began his career at Yale in the 1960s. For more than forty years he has continued to develop, refine and insist on the best, and boldest, of modernist design. -
- Architectural Digest
- October 2007
- Above and Beyond
Sometimes a single element - a rug from a honeymoon in Istanbul, an inherited coromandel screen, even a low, midcentury sectional sofa picked up at a yard sale - tells a story that reveals the meaning of a house and explains the character of its owners. If you can find the world in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour, you can fathom the spirit of a house from a Buddha bought on Hollywood Road in Hong Kong. In telling momment in the house that New York architect Peter L. Gluck designed and built for a young couple outside Austin, Texas, is a historic view: a striking -
- Metropolis
- September 2007
- Peter Gluck's Social Work
Peter Gluck has a problem with the AIA. He has a problem with architectural education too. Really he has a problem with the whole profession of architecture as it is currently practiced. Economic exploitation of youth. Big ideas in service of the highest bidder. Callow young CAD monkeys trained in archispeak. Designers who don’t know how to build. Engineers rescuing forms untethered from reality. He doesn’t seem like an angry person: he’s a sort of laid-back father figure with a gentle demeanor who appears to relish his work. But don’t get him started on the irresponsibility of architects and the way the profession is practiced. Or do get him started: you might learn something. -
- Architectural Record
- July 2007
- Peter Gluck Builds the Inverted Guest House
"I wanted to build a barn," says Richard Yulman, the client for the Inverted Guest House in Lake George, New York. "Just a country barn where we could park cars and put stuff in the winter." What started as a simple shed kind of project, though, became a 5,600-square-foot building that features a pair of two-bedroom guest apartments on either side of an eight-car garage. With its rugged-yet-elegant copper cladding and flat roofs, it looks like no barn. But its industrial materials capture the utilitarian spirit of rural buildings, and its large, folding doors and shutters connect it to the light and views of its wooded site. -
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- May 2007
- No Building Contractor? No Problem
Peter Gluck sits on the couch of his office loft recalling the house that "broke his back." In the working environment of that project, the tensions between his architectural firm, Peter Gluck & Partners, and the general contractor were so high that the construction dragged on for what seemed like forever. Inefficiencies abounded. As he concludes his story, his son, Thomas, another architect at the firm, comes by with a dustydesign plan that falls heavily on the table where he drops it. "This is how we used to dobusiness," he says. -
- Architectural Digest
- January 2007
- The AD 100
Throughout his 34-year career, New York-based architect Peter L. Gluck has remained steadfastly Modernist, creating houses with an acute awareness of time and context while eschewing sentimentality or any reference to tradition. His design approach is governed by "the ongoing and evolving set of principles and impulses inherent to Modernism," and his projects are characterized by clean geometric lines, sculptural elements and respect for light, serenity and individuality. If Gluck's houses possess a certain Japanese sensibility, it is no accident. After graduating from Yale School of Architecture, he spent two years in Japan acting as a consultant for a local construction company. -
- Texas Architect
- October 2006
- Floating Box House
Surrounded by a grove of more than 200 live oaks, the house is located just outside Austin and stands between the city's new urban skyline and its rural past. The forms of the house consist of a box, a stainless steel stucture on which the box is perched, transparent glass encolusre, and a plinth. Significant portions of the program are located below grade to prevent the size of the house from drawing attention away from the landscape. The guest bedrooms, media room, and gallery are located within the buried plinth. In addition, the garage is underground to keep the precinct of trees free of distracting automobiles and black top. The floating box contains the family bedrooms. -
- Wallpaper*
- July 2006
- Gluck of the Draw
A 32-mile sliver of water in upstate New York, Lake George's shores are scattered with holiday homes and summer retreats. It's also a hot spot for America's ongoing battle of domestic architectural styles, as over-scaled neo-vernacular dukes it out with sleek modernism along the prime waterfront sites. One architect in particular, Peter L Gluck, makes a sound case for progressive modernism, His practice, Gluck & Partners, has stuck to his modernist guns, developing and honing the skills he learnt while a student at Yale in the late 1960s under the tutelage of Paul Rudolph. Gluck & Partners has since built up a respectable body of work, and now consists of 40 architects working on everything -
- Architectural Record
- April 2005
- The Scholar's Library
Sited at the architect's weekend family retreat in upstate New York, this library provides a study area for his wife, Carol, a scholar of Japanese. The building also houses 10,000 of her books, mostly in a compact basement. Thin columns extending from the basement to the second level support structural loads. The 20-by-20-by-20-foot building, solit at its base and translucent above, offers sliding glass doors in place of windows, allowing its occupants to experience a completely open environment. Architect Peter Gluck says his wife stays in the space from 8 in the morning until 9 at night. "She gets more done in there than anywhere else." -
- Architectural Digest
- January 2004
- The AD 100
While taking a class taught by Vincent Scully at Yale on the history of architecture, Peter L. Gluck experiences an architectural awakening in which Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and "contemporary Swiss and Dutch architects" would become his "heroes." He later incorporated Japanese sensibilities that carry over into what he described as a "contextual modernism," replete with sculptural elements, unflinchingly sleek geometries and attention to detail, craft and light. Gluck formed his own firm 32 years ago and derives satisfaction from designing and building museums and affordable housing. Nonetheless, he takes on a number of residential commitments every year and is now working on houses in California -
- Architectural Digest
- January 2000
- The AD 100
"A main concern of ours is to produce significant, properly constructed buildings at costs appropriate to their use," says Peter L. Gluck. "In this endeavor, we act as construction managers by actually building most of our projects." These range from houses across the United States for people "interested in real architecture" to multiuse building in New York's East Harlem and a 50,000-square-food community center in the South Bronx. The Yale-educated architect opened his firm in 1972, after spending two years in Japan. Gluck, whose office now consists of 20 architects, got his inspiration from the sensibilities of Japanese architecture and from "all serious and good architects," especially early- and mid -
- Monograph
- January 1997
- 10 Houses
Gluck's work contains hints of whimsy, but never so much as to make us want to describe these buildings as witty. His architecture takes itself too seriously for that, but coming close to whimsy without going all the way is, for Gluck, evocative of his glancing allusions to Historicism. He sees what it is about, he understands its purpose, but his main order of business is to do something else. This work comes close to being many other things, but it turns out to be, in the -
- Architectural Digest
- September 1996
- The AD 100
Peter L. Gluck gave his modern addition to an 18th-century New York farmhouse the character of utility farm structures pieced together over time. "The context demanded that the existing house remain prominent in the composition without inhibiting the sculptural possibilities of the new structure," the architect says, "I chose not to miniaturize the original but to enhance it by contrast." It seems, at first, to be altogether wrong, this sprawling modernist addition of stone, glass and metal on a delicate Federal-style farmhouse. Some kind of demonstration project in architectural insensitivity, you wonder? Why would any thoughtful do such a thing to a graceful eighteenth-century house? -
- Architectural Record
- April 1996
- Record Houses: Annex Supports Varied Pursuits
For architect Peter Gluck's family of four, its new 8,000-square-foot annex to a much smaller nearby house (site plan below) embodies more than simply expanding a weekend retreat. It shows how to accomodate a unified group of people's differing needs in a single location. "We spent a lot of time rethinking how we live," says Gluck, talking about the maturing family's increasingly diversified pursuits and habits, not to mention its widening circle of friends and acquaintances. Their traditional little farmhouse in new York's rural Catskill Mountains, which had served well for 20 years, had begun to burst at the seams wityh too many activities and people. Nor did the formal character and gardens lend themselves to the extensive, innovative addition the -
- Architectural Digest
- February 1992
- Modifying Mies
In augmenting an International Style house in Connecticut designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1955, architect Peter Gluck was forced to confront a vision of architectural purity. Gluck did two additions - a pool with two pavilions and, later, a bedroom wing connected to the house. Few archtiectural problems are as vexing as adding to a building by Mies van der Rohe. First, any Mies building by definition possess the status of a historic artifact, protected by an ethical presumption if not by a legal requirement that any future architect tread lightly. But the nature of Mies's architecture leaves almost no room for anyone else anyway. How do you expand a glass box that aspires to Platonic perfection? -
- Progressive Architecture
- April 1984
- Return to Grace: Residence, South Connecticut
It was the kind of classic design problem we all thought only our design professors fiendish enough to devise. All that would be required to strike terror and paralysis into the heart of a prospective architect/designer in the imperative "Add to an existing house by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe." The rest of the program could say just about anything; God has left the details for later. Originally designed in 1955, the house in lower Connecticut was built for the brother of Mies's client for the renowned Lake Shore Drive apartments. Its fenestration and glazing echo those apartment towers and, in fact, the house even used materials lft over from the Chicago projects. This was a forgotten Mies, however, having -
- House and Garden
- January 1984
- Masterful Meeting: Gluck adds to Mies van der Rohe house
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a small house in 1955 for a site on a Connecticut river, one of only three built by the architect in the United States. His client was the brother of a Chicago developer who had commissioned Mies' great apartment project on Lake Shore Drive. Family ties did not end here. The little house incorporated into its facades the same pattern of mullion and glass used in the Chicago apartments - suburbanized with a coat of white paint - and even used surplus materials from the Chicago job site. -
- Architectural Digest
- December 1982
- Architecture: Peter L. Gluck
The design of an architect's home can present a special challenge. When building for himself, there is an implicit desire to make a statement, a signature. Because the project is so personal, the presumption grows that it must reveal the designer's innermost musings, not simply about house design, but about the condition of architecture, as well. Often this leads to self-consciousness or attempts at a perfection impossible to achieve. Other times, the error -
- Architectural Record
- March 1979
- The Ojai Valley Inn Addition
Because the building is set into a hillside in a series of stepped floors, and becasue the area is particularly subject to earthquakes, the feasibility of the project might have been in severe question if standard (and more expensive) structural techniques were used. The problem was accentuated by the single-loaded corridors and by the weight of 18 inches of earth on the uppermost roof. Working with engineers Spiegel & Zamencik, Gluck developed a composite system of plywood, steel and concrete -
- MoMA Exhibition
- August 1973
- The Phenomenal City: Shinjuku Japan
Shinjuku is a dense clutter of commercial activity at the largest interchange in Tokyo's vast mass transit system. There are 12,000,000 people living in Tokyo; every day more than 1,000,000 of them pass in and out of Shinjuku station on nine radiating rail lines and fifty-odd bus routes. It is to accommodate the needs and wants of this mind-boggling concentration of people that a huge shopping and entertainment area has grown in, around, and through the station, including 4 mammoth department stores and over 3 thousand small retail shops, restaurants, bars, and entertainment facilities. -
- Record Houses
- May 1973
- Apartments of the Year
A cool secluded pond is the focus for this house in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Access by car is possible only at a level 35 feet above the water, and so the entrance is at the top and the house is a series of terraced rooms facing the view and arranged around a central stairway that steps down inexorably from the entrance to the pond below, and just before (for the less adventurous) to an open deck and swimming pool. -
- Progressive Architecture
- July 1967
- Light and Air Houses: Peter Gluck, Architect
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gluck, the architect's parents, requested a vacation house that was easily maintainable, contained two bedrooms, two baths, and a large living room. For privacy, the architect separated the living room from the bedroom wing, and the latter took on the minimum dimensions and shape required by the bathroom core and bed space. The structure is supported by 40-ft telephone poles sunk 23 ft into the ground.
- 2013 Architecture Merit Award, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIA NY), Tower House
- 2013 Record Houses, Architectural Record, Tower House
- 2013 Design Award of Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects New York Council (SARA/NY), Tower House
- 2013 Design Award of Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects New York Council (SARA/NY), House in the Mountains
- 2013 National Housing Award, American Institute of Architects (AIA), House in the Mountains
- 2012 Design Award of Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects/NY Council (SARA/NY), Rado Redux
- 2012 Award for Excellence in Design, NYC Public Design Commission, Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning
- 2011 Shortlist, WAN Effectiveness Award, The East Harlem School
- 2011 Design Award of Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Lakeside Retreat
- 2011 Design Award of Honor, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Blue Ridge House
- 2011 Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Cascade House
- 2011 Design Award of Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects/NY Council (SARA/NY), Lakeside Retreat
- 2011 Design Award of Merit, IALD International Lighting Design Awards, The East Harlem School (with Lux Populi)
- 2011 House of the Month, Architectural Record, Lakeside Retreat
- 2010 Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Pool Pavilion
- 2010 Design Award of Recognition, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Urban Townhouse
- 2010 International Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum & The European Centre for Architecture, Pool Pavilion
- 2010 International Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum & The European Centre for Architecture, Urban Townhouse
- 2010 Architecture Honor Award, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIA NY), The East Harlem School
- 2010 Design Award for Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects/NY Council (SARA/NY), Urban Townhouse
- 2010 Design Award for Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects/NY Council (SARA/NY), The East Harlem School
- 2009 Design Award of Honor, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), The East Harlem School
- 2009 Design Award of Excellence, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Floating Box House
- 2009 Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), Little Ajax Affordable Housing
- 2009 K-12 Educational Facilities Design Award for Design Excellence, Boston Society of Architects (BSA), The East Harlem School
- 2009 Citation of Excellence, BusinessWeek/ Architectural Record 'Good Design is Good Business' Award, The East Harlem School
- 2009 Project of the Year, Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) New York Tri-State Region, The East Harlem School
- 2009 National Design-Build Award of Merit, Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), Little Ajax Affordable Housing
- 2009 National Design-Build Award of Excellence, Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), The East Harlem School
- 2008 Winner, New Construction, North American Copper in Architecture Awards, Inverted Outbuilding
- 2007 Show You're Green Award of Excellence, American Institute of Architects (AIA) National, Little Ajax Affordable Housing
- 2007 Award of Merit, American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York State, Little Ajax Affordable Housing
- 2006 Award of Excellence, American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York State, Floating Box House
- 2006 Design Award, Texas Society of Architects, Floating Box House
- 2006 Honor Award, Boston Society of Architects (BSA), Floating Box House
- 2005 Design Award, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Connecticut, Split House
- 2004 Award of Excellence, American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York State, Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
- 2004 Honor Award, American Institute of Architects (AIA) NY, Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
- 2004 Honor Award, American Institute of Architects (AIA) NY, Scholar's Library
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