Annabelle Selldorf FAIA, is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based architecture and interior design practice. Her notable projects include Neue Galerie New York: Museum for German and Austrian Art; renovation of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts; as well as 200 11th Avenue and 520 West 19th Street, two high-rise residential buildings located along New York’s High Line.

Selldorf is also recognized for designing gallery and exhibition spaces including Hauser & Wirth Galleries in London, New York and Zurich; and the Gladstone, Michael Werner

Michael Werner

Michael Werner is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ....

, David Zwirner

David Zwirner

David Zwirner is a gallerist and art dealer and owner of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City. In 2010 Zwirner was listed at number four in the ArtReview annual "Power 100" list.-Early Life:...

 and Acquavella

Acquavella Galleries

Acquavella Galleries is an art gallery located at 18 East 79th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It occupies a five-story French neo-classical townhouse. It was founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1921 and is owned and operated...

 Galleries in Manhattan. She has also designed studio spaces for Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....

, David Salle

David Salle

David Salle is an American painter who helped define postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with a varied pictorial language of multi-imagery...

 and Not Vital. Selldorf also routinely collaborates with the Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian. There are currently eleven gallery spaces: three in New York; two in London; one in each of Beverly Hills, Rome, Athens, Paris, Geneva, Hong Kong and Moscow.-1980s:...

 on exhibition designs.

Her approach to design has been described in the Wall Street Journal as "…about restrained and understated elegance. From reinvented Beaux-Arts galleries to handsome residential towers, the Selldorf statement goes against the grain." Her work has also been praised by Paul Goldberger, Architecture Critic for The New Yorker as “…a kind of gentle modernism of utter precision, with perfect proportions."

In 2010, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...

 honored Selldorf’s firm with a Public Design Commission Award for the design of the Sunset Park Materials Recycling Facility. Selldorf has also been named by Architectural digest as one of the top 100 designers in the world. In 2009, she was interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show.

Selldorf received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

 in New York and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and President of the Board of the Architectural League of New York. She also serves on the Boards of the Design Trust for Public Space and the Chinati Foundation

Chinati Foundation

The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art museum located in Marfa, Texas and based upon the ideas of its founder, artist Donald Judd.- Mission :...

.

Selected Projects

• Neue Galerie New York: Museum for German and Austrian Art
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
• Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  The ' is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education that cultivates comparative and connective investigations of the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to China. It is a discrete entity within New York University, independent of any other school or department of the...
  
  
• Sunset Park Materials Recycling Facility
• 200 11th Avenue
• 520 West 19th Street
• Urban Glass House
• David Zwirner
  David Zwirner Gallery
  David Zwirner Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City owned by David Zwirner that is active in both the primary and secondary markets....
  
  
• Hauser & Wirth
  Hauser & Wirth
  Hauser & Wirth is one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries. In addition to representing over 40 established and emerging artists, the gallery represents the estates of Eva Hesse, Allan Kaprow, Lee Lozano, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth and André Thomkins, as well as the Henry Moore Family...
  
  
• Gladstone Gallery
• Haunch of Venison
  Haunch of Venison
  Haunch of Venison is a commercial art gallery founded in 2002 in the West End of London. The gallery represents leading contemporary artists with branches in London, Berlin and New York.-History:...
  
  
• Acquavella Galleries
  Acquavella Galleries
  Acquavella Galleries is an art gallery located at 18 East 79th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It occupies a five-story French neo-classical townhouse. It was founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1921 and is owned and operated...
  
  
• Michael Werner Gallery
  Michael Werner Gallery
  Michael Werner Gallery is an art gallery founded by Michael Werner in New York City during the year 1990. It is the U.S. extension of the German Galerie Michael Werner founded in 1963 in Berlin.-History:...
  
  
• Oak Room and Oak Bar at the Plaza Hotel
• Abercrombie & Fitch Flagship Stores in New York, London and Tokyo

Publications

Selldorf Architects
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