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Andrew Michael Geller (April 17, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York – December 25, 2011 in Syracuse, New York) was an American architect, painter, and graphic designer. He is widely known for his uninhibited, sculptural beach houses in the coastal regions of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut during the 1950s and '60s, as well as for his indirect role in the 1959 Kitchen Debate between Richard Nixon (then Vice President) and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, which began at an exhibit Geller had helped design for the American National Exhibition in Moscow. Geller worked with the prominent firm of American industrial and graphic designer Raymond Loewy where his projects ranged widely—from the design of shopping centers and department stores across the United States, to the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center〔 and the logo of New York-based department store Lord & Taylor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Communication Arts, Ken Barber )〕 After designing a beach house for Loewy's director of public relations,〔 Geller was featured in the New York Times and began receiving notoriety for his own work. Between 1955 and 1974,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Southampton Patch, Jessica DiNapoli, June 17, 2011 )〕 Geller produced a series of modest but distinctive vacation homes, many published in popular magazines including ''Life'', ''Sports Illustrated'', and ''Esquire''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = alastair-gordon-wall-to-all, December 26, 2011 )〕 On his death in 2011, the ''New York Times'' said Geller "helped bring modernism to the masses." 〔 ==Background== Geller was born in Brooklyn on April 17, 1924 to Olga and Joseph Geller, an artist and sign painter who had emigrated from Hungary in 1905.〔 Architectural historian Alastair Gordon reported that as a sign painter Joseph Geller designed the logo for Boar's Head Provision Company, still in use today.〔 Geller studied drawing with his father,〔 and the attended art classes at the Brooklyn Museum. A 1938 painted self-portrait won him a scholarship to the New York High School of Art and Music (1939),〔 and he subsequently studied architecture at Cooper Union,〔 where he took drawing class with Robert Gwathmey, father of architect Charles Gwathmey.〔 Geller later worked as a naval architect for the United States Maritime Commission designing tanker hulls and interiors (1939–42). During World War II, Geller served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1942–45) and was inadvertently exposed to a toxic chemical agent, suffering medical consequences for the remainder of his life.〔 Geller married Shirley Morris (a painter)〔 in 1944. The couple lived in Northport, New York and together had a son, Gregg Geller (formerly catalog executive at RCA, CBS and Warner Bros.)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = allbusiness.com, Chris Morris )〕 and a daughter, Jamie Geller Dutra〔 (formerly interior designer at Loewy/Snaith).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Etsy.com )〕 Prior to his death in December 2011 in Syracuse, Geller lived in Spencer, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Geller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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