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Norman Jaffe (April 3, 1932 – August 19, 1993) was an American architect widely noted for his contemporary residential architecture, and his "strikingly sculptural beach houses" on Eastern Long Island, in southeastern New York. He is credited with pioneering the "design of rustic Modernist houses in the Hamptons", and with being an innovator in using natural materials and passive solar forms of design,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=thehamptons com )〕 and urban design.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Romantic modernist: the life and work of Norman Jaffe, architect / Alastair Gordon )〕 ==Biography== Norman Jaffe was born in 1932 in Chicago to poor immigrant parents from Poland and Latvia. During the period of the depression he was sent to live with relatives in Seattle where he attended high school. After finishing school, he joined the military in 1954, serving with the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Japan during the Korean War.〔 In 1956 Jaffe finished his military service and returned to the United States.〔 He began studying architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,〔〔 later transferring to the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1958.〔 Jaffe went on to complete study at Art Students League of New York and Art Institute of Chicago.〔 While at Berkely, Jaffe studied under noted residential architects William Wurster and Joseph Esherick who co-founded the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his degree, Jaffe began working for Esherick and in 1961 he left his wife and son and moved to New York to work for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the largest architectural firms in the world, and later, for Philip Johnson.〔 In 1965, Jaffe's estranged wife, Barbara Cochran, was living in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with their 7-year-old son Miles and her parents when she was killed in an motor vehicle accident. Miles moved to New York to live with his father. Jaffe had begun visiting Long Island in the 1960s, and in 1973 he moved to Bridgehampton where he opened an architectural practice. He became the most prolific architect in the Hamptons at that time, designing more than 50 local houses, from small summer homes to large estates. His work in the Hamptons included a golf club, synagogue and restaurant.〔 The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects gave Jaffe an award in 1977 for a beach house he designed on Long Island.〔 Jaffe and Emery Roth & Sons were the architects of the Guardian Life Building, built in the Financial District in 1983.〔 In 1985 Jaffe met Sarah Stahl at a Hampton Jitney bus stop. They were married in 1986 and had two sons.〔 In 1987 Jaffe donated his services to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons and designed their new synagogue. The Gates of the Grove Synagogue has been described as Jaffe's "masterpiece...(with) a remarkable blend of material and spiritual substance",〔 and "one of the finest examples of modern synagogue design in America". Jaffe's design won awards for contemporary religious design.〔 Paul Goldberger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture writer from ''The New Yorker'', later described the Gates of the Grove as Jaffe's "greatest work" and a "truly sacred space...", and architecture historian Alastair Gordon said Jaffe's design for the Gates of the Grove "was the jewel in the crown of his turbulent career". Jaffe was inducted as a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1991; the Smithsonian Institution honored the occasion by exhibiting his work.〔 It was reported he was "commanding design fees of as much as half a million dollars."〔 One of Jaffe's final designs was the office building at 565 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.〔 It was finished in 1993. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger from ''The New Yorker'', described the building as "quite remarkable...a stunning modernist object (which) respects the street, and in so doing, it enriches the city." Jaffe assisted a number of charities, including medical relief programs in East Africa and local charities on Long Island. He also donated his professional services to charities and completed a design for a children's hospital in Croatia.〔 Early in the morning of August 19, 1993, Jaffe disappeared while swimming off a beach in Bridgehampton, New York, where he was known to often swim alone. His clothes and other personal items were found unattended on the beach. He had only learned to swim in his 50s, and his friends and family were reported as saying he was an overconfident but poor swimmer.〔 A month later, fishermen found a human pelvic bone on the beach near where Jaffe disappeared. The Suffolk County, New York, Medical examiner used medical records and x-rays to confirm the remains belonged to Jaffe. His death was presumed to be an accidental drowning. On September 24, 1993, he was buried at Shaare Pardes Accabonac Grove Cemetery.〔 Norman Jaffe was survived by his wife, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, and three sons.〔 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「Norman Jaffe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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