ABSTRACT
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been working and drawing, hand-in-glove, since they established their New York studio in 1986. Over the years, the pair has shared their design philosophy with students in a number of studios they teach around the nation, most recently at Yale. Williams and Tsien collaborated with noted landscape architect Laurie Olin on the Barnes landscape, and since the museum opened in 2012, critics have hailed the building, its site plan, and the design of its surroundings. They founded Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in 1986. Their studio, located in New York City, focuses on work for institutions museums, schools, and non-profits; organizations that value issues of aspiration and meaning, timelessness and beauty. Their compelling body of work includes the Natatorium at the Cranbrook School, the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, the Asia Society Center in Hong Kong.
