Antoine Predock

Antoine Predock
San Diego's baseball stadium Petco Park
Born	1936 Lebanon, Missouri, United States
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Rome Prize (1985), AIA Gold Medal (2006), National Design Award (2007)
Buildings	Petco Park
Design	Angular, brutalist-type building designs

Antoine Predock (born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967. Predock attended the University of New Mexico and later received his Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University.

Predock first gained national attention with the La Luz community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University was his first nationally won design competition. Predock's work includes the Turtle Creek House, built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail in Texas, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and a new ballpark for the San Diego Padres. He has also worked on international sites such as the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In 1985, Antoine Predock was awarded the Rome Prize. In 1989, he won a New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2006, he won the AIA Gold Medal. In 2007, Predock was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2010, Predock was named a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

Predock's design has been highly influenced by his connection to New Mexico.

Notable projects

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CLA Building at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Flint RiverQuarium, Albany, Georgia

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National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taiwan

McNamara Alumni Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• 1970 – La Luz Community, New Mexico
• 1971 – University of New Mexico Law School building
• 1979 – Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
• 1982 – Rio Grande Nature Center, New Mexico
• 1989 – Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Arizona
• 1990 – Las Vegas Central Library + Children’s Museum, Nevada
• 1991 – Mandell Weiss Forum, University of California, San Diego
• 1991 – Venice Beach House, California
• 1992 – Classroom + Laboratory Building, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona)
• 1992 – Hotel Santa Fe at Euro Disney, France
• 1993 – American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
• 1993 – Turtle Creek House, Texas
• 1994 – Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• 1994 – Social Sciences + Humanities Building, University of California, Davis
• 1994 – Thousand Oaks Civic Center, California
• 1995 – Museum of Science & Industry, Florida
• 1995 – Ventana Vista School, Arizona
• 1996 – Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
• 1996 – Music Conservatory, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1997 – Arizona Science Center, Arizona
• 1997 – Center for Nanoscale Science + Technology, Rice University, Texas
• 1997 – Dance Studio, University of California, San Diego
• 1997 – Spencer Theater, New Mexico
• 2000 – McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota
• 2000 – Tang Teaching Museum – Skidmore College, New York
• 2003 – Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library, Colorado
• 2003 – Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
• 2004 – Austin City Hall, Texas
• 2004 – Flint RiverQuarium, Georgia
• 2004 – Performing Arts + Learning Center, Pima Community College, Arizona
• 2004 – San Diego Padres Petco Park, California
• 2004 – National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taiwan, withdrawn in 2008
• 2006 – Discovery Canyon Campus, Colorado
• 2006 – Highlands Pond House
• 2006 – Recreation Facility, Ohio State University, Ohio
• 2007 – George Pearl Hall, School of Architecture, University of New Mexico
• 2007 – Indian Community School, Franklin, Wisconsin
• 2007 – Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University
• 2008 – Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas, Texas
• 2008 – Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado College
• 2014 – Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• In Progress – Inn at the French Laundry, California

References

• "Antoine Predock: A Case of Synthetic Inclusivity", L'arquitettura, March 1988, pp. 178–198 (in Italian and English)(Comprehensive Theoretico/critical review article by Anthony C.Antoniades)

External links

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• San Diego Union-Tribune article
• Illustrated page on the Nelson Fine Arts Center in Tempe Arizona
• Antoine Predock's web page
• Modern Home in Dallas, Texas Designed by Architect Antoine Predock
• Indian Community School, Franklin, Wisconsin
• Predock's Architecture School, by Susan Smith, ArchitectureWeek No. 408, 2008.1210, pD1-1.