Sy Rutkin - Architect - Rutkin Designs

Sy Rutkin - Architect

Sy Rutkin Architect has written three papers about shell-design and structure. First - title "A Shell of Variable Thickness With a Middle Surface Not Expressible Analytically") is published by National Academy of Sciences in a book about shell work. The paper showed that free form could be described and analyzed by use of computer (work was done with help from IBM, IBM Mathematician and MIT engineer.

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Second paper titled " New Freedom of Shape in New Shell Forms" was presented at Mexico City at International Conference on Shell Structures in which a number of new shell designs were presented.

Auditorium

Multi-Story Building

Multipurpose
Auditorium-Amphitheater

Stadium

Third Paper titled "Shell Structure-Future Design Development" was given in Madrid, Spain at International Conference. He presented his idea of a new vocabulary of new shell forms in what was described as families of new shell forms (PHOTO - photo of model- fig.5 Auditorium fg.1A, Multi-Building Use -Garage, Arena 3A,Stadium -4A, Multi-use -5A (SHELL PLAN #1 is the HOUSE SHELL constructed and shown here, PHOTO here Shell house in another view. and Multi-Use Shell. Fig 6 & PHOTO from Exhibit.)

Sy Rutkin studied art and architecture at Cooper Union in New York City and upon receipt of a further scholarship from Cooper Union went on to study architecture and city planning at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago under Architect Mies Van Der Rohe and City Planner Ludwig Hilbersheimer. While a student at Cooper Union he spent a summer in Los Angeles where he worked for Rudolph M. Schindler, one of the renowned California architects.

He is listed in Marquis Who's Who and has his writing/research paper published in National Academy of Science book on shell structure, conference and issues of IASS -International Association of Shell and Space Structures. His architecture/shell papers presented at world shell structure conferences in San Francisco, Mexico City and Madrid have also been reported in the press. Sy's shell work was exhibited in a two-man architecture exhibit at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in SoHo, New York City. He is a also a water colorist who has won honorable mention for his work in an annual juried exhibit at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Islip, Long Island. He has donated his work to charity auctions in New York City and Roxbury, New York, and delights his friends every year with holiday cards using reproductions of his paintings.

Sy Rutkin lived in New York City and Roxbury, New York with his wife, Anne Teicher.

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