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Der Scutt was the architect
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 and designer of major buildings throughout New York City
New York City
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 and the United States
United States
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.

His best known work perhaps is Trump Tower
Trump Tower (New York)
Trump Tower is a 58-story mixed-use skyscraper located at 725 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of East 56th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was developed by Donald Trump and the Equitable Life Assurance Company, and designed by Der Scutt of Swanke, Hayden Connell...

 next to Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co. is an American jewelry and silverware company. As part of its branding, the company is strongly associated with its Tiffany Blue , which is a registered trademark.- History :...

 on Fifth Avenue, New York, developed by Donald J. Trump. his other major buildings include One Astor Plaza
One Astor Plaza
One Astor Plaza is a high skyscraper in Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Completed in 1972, the building is 54 stories tall and was designed by Der Scutt of Ely J. Kahn & Jacobs. Originally known as the W. T...

, 520 Madison Avenue, the Continental Insurance Corporation headquarters in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, and the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual is a mutual company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that offers financial services, including life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, annuities, mutual funds, and employee benefit services...

 Headquarters in Milwaukee. He was the design consultant for the Grand Hyatt
Hyatt
Hyatt Hotels Corporation , is an international operator of hotels.Hyatt Center is the headquarters for Hyatt corporation...

 Hotel in New York City.

Biography

Scutt was born Donald Clark Scutt in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
Wyomissing is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, established on July 2, 1906. The population was 8,587 at the 2000 census, but after the January, 2002 merger with neighboring Wyomissing Hills, the combined 2000 Census estimate was 11,155 making it the most populous borough in...

 in 1934, near Reading
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...

. He attended the Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute and Penn State University. After working with Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...

 for a year, he transferred and received his Master's degree in Architecture from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

.

In 1961 he joined Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a twentieth century American architect who worked primarily in the Modernist style.-Early life:...

. From 1962 to 1965, Scutt worked for Paul Rudolph
Paul Rudolph (architect)
Paul Marvin Rudolph was an American architect and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture for six years, known for use of concrete and highly complex floor plans...

 and managed Rudolph's New York office. From 1965 to 1975, Scutt was an Associate with Kahn and Jacobs, where he designed One Astor Plaza
One Astor Plaza
One Astor Plaza is a high skyscraper in Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Completed in 1972, the building is 54 stories tall and was designed by Der Scutt of Ely J. Kahn & Jacobs. Originally known as the W. T...

. He joined Poor Swanke Hayden & Connell Architects in 1975 and was a partner in charge of design there from 1976 to 1981. Der Scutt began his own private practice in 1981.

Scutt established his own firm, Der Scutt Architect, in 1981 and was awarded an impressive group of commissions, including the 55-story 100 United Nations
United Nations
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 Plaza Tower luxury condominium http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/100un.htmlhttp://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/100un2.html, the 57-story Corinthian luxury condominium
The Corinthian (New York)
The Corinthian is a 55-story apartment building that was New York City's largest apartment building when it opened in 1988. It was designed by Der Scutt, design architect, and Michael Schimenti. Its fluted towers with bay windows are unusual compared to the traditional boxy shape of buildings in...

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID006.htm in New York City, HSBC Bank USA
HSBC Bank USA
HSBC Bank USA, National Association, the American subsidiary of UK-based HSBC Holdings plc, is a bank with its operational head office in New York City and its nominal head office in McLean, Virginia . HSBC Bank USA, N.A...

 headquarters in New York City, and the Roure Bertrand Dupont
Givaudan
Givaudan is a Swiss manufacturer of flavorings and fragrances. As of 2008, it is the world's largest company in the industry.-Background:The company's scents and flavors are developed most often for food and beverage makers, but they are also used frequently in household goods, as well as grooming...

 United States headquarters in New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. Scutt's major high rise office building renovations include those at 505 Park Avenue
Park Avenue (Manhattan)
Park Avenue is a wide boulevard that carries north and southbound traffic in New York City borough of Manhattan. Through most of its length, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east....

, 625 Madison Avenue, 575 Lexington Avenue, 1633 Broadway, 57 West 57th Street, 823 United Nations Plaza, 555 Fifth Avenue, the World corporate headquarters of International Flavors and Fragrances, and 1615 L Street in Washington, D.C.

Scutt participated actively as an author, lecturer, teacher, and officer in a variety of professional organizations. He was Vice-Chairman of the New York Building Congress for five years. He was the 1976 recipient of the Illuminating Engineering Society's Distinguished Service Award and was the first architect to receive that award. In 1979 he was elected to the prestigious and coveted Fellow Grade of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (I.E.S.N.A.) Scutt was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...

.

As the Project Designer for numerous corporate and institutional buildings and interiors, Scutt's work has been published in magazines, newspapers, professional journals, and popular magazines — both in the United States and internationally. In November 1981, The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...

 cover photograph included Scutt as one of New York City's prominent master architects, along with John Burgee
John Burgee
__notoc__John Burgee is an American architect noted for his contributions to Postmodern architecture. He was a partner of Philip Johnson from 1967 to 1991, creating together the partnership firm Johnson/Burgee Architects. Their landmark collaborations together included Pennzoil Place in Houston...

, Cesar Pelli
César Pelli
César Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects...

, Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...

, Edward Barnes, and Raul de Armas. In 1984, two magazines "Interiors" and "The Designer" published cover stories on Scutt.

In 1987 Der Scutt was selected by a group of prestigious architects to be included in the international bibliography, Contemporary Architects. He has been a visiting critic in Architectural Design at Harvard
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, Yale
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, and Washington University. He also served on numerous design juries for the AIA, IESNA, Concrete Industry Board of New York, Progressive Architecture and The Tucker National Architecture Awards.

In 1989, Scutt bought his first ship model at a flea market and amassed one of the most unusual private nautical collections in the world. His collection spanned four centuries, including ocean liners, warships, commercial ships, sailing ships, and paddle steamers. The models came from all over the world. Articles on his collection of over six hundred models appeared in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, The Journal of Commerce, Town & Country
Town & Country (magazine)
Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...

, Nautical Collector, and other publications. In 2001 the South Street Seaport Museum acquired the Der Scutt Collection of Ocean Liner models and memorabilia.

In 1996 the Reading Pennsylvania Public Museum featured a major retrospective exhibit of Der Scutt's work and published the first comprehensive book on his work.

Scutt was a trustee of the South Street Seaport Museum from 1992 to 2006, and a trustee of the South Street Seaport Museum Foundation until his death. He was formerly a trustee of the Ocean Liner Museum of New York, the Maritime Industry Museum and the National Maritime Historical Society
National Maritime Historical Society
The National Maritime Historical Society is a non-profit organization in USA devoted to historical ship preservation and maritime education...

.

Der Scutt died of liver failure at his home in Manhattan on March 14, 2010.

Completed projects

Following is a partial list of his completed projects

Unbuilt designs


Further reading

  • "The New American Skyscraper" by Paul Goldberger
    Paul Goldberger
    Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City...

    , New York Times Magazine cover story, November 8, 1981
  • "Trumping the Competition" Interiors Magazine cover story, June 1984
  • "Der Scutt: A profile" The Designer/Specifier August 1984.
  • Morgan, Ann Lee and Colin Naylor Contemporary Architects St. James Press 1987
  • Reynolds, Donald Martin Manhattan Architecture, Prentice Hall press 1988
  • Schwartz, Tony TRUMP: The Art of The Deal, Random House 1993.
  • "This Architect's Eyes Are Fixed Upon the Sea" by Rita Reif, The New York Times September 5, 1993.
  • Metzger, Robert P. Der Scutt Retrospective, Pennsylvania Reading Public Museum, 1996.
  • Stern, Robert A.M. New York 1960, Monacelli, 1995
  • Gray, Susan Architects on Architects, McGraw Hill, 2001.
  • Stern, Robert A.M. New York 2000, Monacelli 2006

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