18. | Ely Jacques Kahn (7.Eugenie3, 2.Rosalie2, 1.?1) wurde geboren 01 Jun 1884, New York City, New York, United States (USA); gestorben 5 Sep 1972, New York City, New York, United States (USA). Weitere Ereignisse:
- Education: von Okt 1899 bis Jun 1903, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Columbia College
- Education: von Sep 1903 bis 1907, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Studium an der Columbia University School of Architecture
- Education: von 1907 bis 1911, Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankreich; Studium an der Sorbonne und an der École des Beaux Arts
- Event: Sep 1911, Schweizerstraße 5, Hohenems, Vorarlberg, Österreich; Aufenthalt mit Studienkollege Charles Stein bei den Schwiegereltern seiner Schwester, Anton und Charlotte Rosenthal
- Event: 2 Dez 1911, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Rückkehr vom Studium in Paris mit der SS Lorraine
- Event: Dez 1912, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Verlobung mit Elsie Plaut
- Occupation/Beruf: New York City, New York, United States (USA); Architekt
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1912 bis 1915, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Entwurfszeichner für verschiedene New Yorker Architekten (Boring & Tilton, George B. Post, Clinton MacKenzie, Clinton & Russell)
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1912, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Mitglied der Ethical Culture Society
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1912, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Mitglied der Society of Beaux-Arts Architects
- Occupation/Beruf: von Sep 1914 bis 1915, Ithaca, New York, United States (USA); Vertretungsprofessur für Architektur an der Cornell University
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1917 bis 1930, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Architekt (Buchman & Kahn)
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1918, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Mitglied der Architectural League of New York
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1921; Mitglied des American Institute of Architects
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1930 bis 1940, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Architekt (The Firm of Ely Jacques Kahn)
- Occupation/Beruf: von 1940 bis 1973, New York City, New York, United States (USA); Architekt (Kahn & Jacobs)
- Residence: von 1884 bis 1890, 221 East, 60th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States (USA)
- Residence: 1907, 22 rue Jacob, Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankreich
- Residence: 1907, 50 rue Jacob, Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankreich
- Residence: von 1908 bis 1911, rue Corneille 7, Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankreich
- Residence: von 1913 bis 1917, 54 Morningside Avenue, New York City, New York, United States (USA)
- Residence: von 1917 bis um 1937, 35 Claremont Avenue, New York City, New York, United States (USA)
- Residence: um 1964, 1185 Park Avenue, New York City, New York, United States (USA)
- Lebenslauf: Ely Jacques Kahn wurde am 1. Juni 1884 in New York, als Sohn von Jakob Kahn und Eugenie Maximilian geboren. Sein Vater war 1871 von Hohenems nach New York emigriert und hatte dort eine Spiegelfabrik gegründet. Ely Jacques Kahn studierte Architektur, zunächst in New York und dann von 1907 bis 1911 in Paris an der École des Beaux Arts. Nach einem kurzen Aufenthalt in Hohenems und seiner Rückkehr nach New York begann er als Entwurfszeichner für namhafte Architekturbüros, bevor er in die Firma von Albert Buchman eintrat, deren Leitung er bald übernahm. In den 1920er und 1930er Jahren wurde Kahn zu einem der führenden Architekten New Yorks, dessen im Geiste des Art Déco entworfenen Wolkenkratzer die New York Skyline prägten. In den Zeiten der Depression musste er sein Architekturbüro verkleinern, konzentrierte sich auf öffentliche Aufträge und auf architekturtheoretische Arbeiten. Mitte der 1940er Jahre konnte er wieder erfolgreich an seine großen Erfolge anknüpfen und es entstanden, in Partnerschaft mit Robert Allan Jacobs und später auch Ludwig Mies van der Rohe noch einmal bedeutende Bauten, zuletzt das Seagram Building. Nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg beschäftigt er sich auch mit Synagogenbau und 1948 entwarf er mit Jo Davidson erste Pläne für ein Holocaust Mahnmal. Seine Schwester Rena Kahn betrieb mit ihrem Mann Rudolf Rosenthal in New York eine Galerie für Design.
Ely Jacques Kahn starb am 5. September 1972 in New York.
- Biography: Ely Jacques Kahn was born 1884 in New York as the son of Jacques Kahn from Hohenems. His father brought design wares from Europe to sell in New York, perhaps providing his earliest introduction to design - and founded a factory producing mirrors.
Ely Jacques Kahn became one of the most productive American commercial architects who designed numerous skyscrapers in New York City in the twentieth century. In addition to buildings intended for commercial use, Kahn's designs ranged throughout the possibilities of architectural programs, including facilities for the film industry. Many of his numerous buildings under the 1916 Zoning Resolution feature architectural setbacks to keep the building profitably close to its permitted "envelope" and have been likened to the stepped form of the Tower of Babel: a notable example is his 1400 Broadway (1931).
Ely Jacques Kahn traveled to Europe where he was aware of the work of architect Josef Hoffman. He attended Columbia University, and later was a professor at Cornell University. Kahn was the father of noted New Yorker magazine writer Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr..
Ely Jacques Kahn's partnership with Albert Buchman lasted from 1917 until 1930. In this period his work alternated Beaux-Arts with cubism, modernism, and art deco, of which examples are 2 Park Avenue (1927), using architectural terracotta in jazzy facets and primary colors, the Film Center Building in Hell's Kitchen (1928-29) and the Squibb Building (1930), which Kahn considered among his best work. In what has become an iconic photograph, Kahn masqueraded as his own Squibb Building with other architects dressed as buildings for the Beaux Arts Ball of 1931. The building moved decisively away from the decorative modernity of the Art Deco 20s: Lewis Mumford praised it in 1931 as “a great relief after the fireworks, the Coney Island barking, the theatrical geegaws that have been masquerading as le style moderne around Manhattan during the last few years.”
Kahn who had taken full control of the practice of Kahn & Buchman in 1930, as Ely Jacques Kahn Architects, produced some commercial skyscrapers that combined traditional massing with a skin pared of all details, such as the 42-storey Continental Building (1931) at Broadway and West 41st Street. In 1940 he formed a partnership with Robert Allan Jacobs, the son of architect Harry Allan Jacobs. An exemplary work of this period is the Universal Pictures Building of 1947 which was used by Reyner Banham to illustrate air conditioning. Another is 100 Park Avenue, and the firm later collaborated with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson on the Seagram Building. In 1944 Kahn and Jacobs rendered a prosaic program, the Municipal Asphalt Plant as a free-standing sculptural essay in concrete covering four parabolic steel arches, familiar to any driver on the FDR Drive (at 90th-91st Streets). For the New York Stock Exchange, Kahn & Jacobs created additional facilities in 1956 designed with their characteristic zig-zag of setbacks in the upper stories.
Kahn's work just after World War II had direct relevance to Judaism. In 1946 he began a renovation of Central Synagogue. In 1947, he wrote on the subject of design principles for synagogues in an article entitled, "Creating a Modern Synagogue Style: No More Copying." In 1948, with sculptor Jo Davidson, Kahn made the first public plan for a Holocaust memorial in the United States. The chosen site for this project in Riverside Park later bore other projects for memorials by Percival Goodman, and Erich Mendelsohn.
Although Kahn retired some years earlier, the firm of Kahn & Jacobs lasted until 1973, the year after Kahn's death.
Kahn's extensive architectural drawings and papers, including materials from the firms Buchman & Kahn and Kahn & Jacobs, are held in the Department of Drawings & Archives at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Jacques_Kahn
Archives:
Kahn, Ely Jacques; Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, (212)854-4110, avery-drawings@libraries.cul.edu
Books:
- Design in Art and Industry. New York: Scribner, 1936
- A Building goes up. 1969
Essays:
- "Essential Details in Store Designing", in: Architectural Forum, 1924;
- "The Office Building Problem in New York", in: Architectural Forum, 1924;
- Ely Jacques Kahn, Creating a Modern Synagogue Style: No More Copying, Commentary, June 1947
References:
- Jewel Stern / John A. Stuart, Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-arts to Modernism in New York, Norton, 2006, ISBN 0-393-73114-6
Notizen:
Quellen:
Jewel Stern, John A. Stuart, Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-arts to Modernism in New York, Norton, 2006;
The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 10, page 100;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Jacques_Kahn;
http://www.nypap.org/content/ely-jacques-kahn;
All About All of Us, by Adèle Maximilian as told to Cousin Joan Kahn. 1977 (Privatdruck)
Ely heiratete Elise (Elsie) Plaut 16 Mai 1913, Ethical Hall, 2 West 64th Street, New York City, New York, United States (USA). Elise (Tochter von Joseph (Solomon) Plaut und Henriette Sternau) wurde geboren 22 Nov 1889; gestorben 22 Nov 1952. [Familienblatt]
Kinder:
- 28. Joan Plaut Kahn wurde geboren 13 Apr 1914, New York City, New York, United States (USA); gestorben 12 Okt 1994, New York City, New York, United States (USA).
- 29. Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. wurde geboren 04 Dez 1916, New York City, New York, United States (USA); gestorben 28 Mai 1994, Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States (USA).
- 30. Olivia Kahn wurde geboren 9 Jul 1920, New York City, New York, United States (USA); gestorben 19 Dez 2015, New York City, New York, United States (USA); wurde bestattet 27 Dez 2015.
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Ely heiratete Beatrice Josephi 1938. Beatrice (Tochter von Emanuel Josephi und Nettie Cohen) wurde geboren um 1890, Chicago, Illinois, United States (USA); gestorben 1962. [Familienblatt]
Ely heiratete Liselotte Hirschman Myller 7 Jan 1964, New York City, New York, United States (USA). Liselotte (Tochter von Stephan (Stefan) Hirschman und Martha (Marta) Hellmann) wurde geboren 1 Feb 1906, Nürnberg, Bayern, Deutschland; gestorben 24 Feb 2007, New York City, New York, United States (USA). [Familienblatt]
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