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David Rockwell (born July 25, 1956) is an American
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and designer. He is the founder and president of Rockwell Group, a 250-person cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice based in New York City with satellite offices in Madrid and Los Angeles.


Early life and education

Rockwell grew up in a theater family. His mother, a vaudeville dancer and choreographer, often cast him in community repertory productions. When he was 12, David's family moved from Deal, New Jersey to Guadalajara, Mexico. Rockwell trained in architecture at Syracuse University and the Architectural Association in London.


Career

Rockwell founded Rockwell Group in 1984. Rockwell currently serves as Chair Emeritus of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) and as a board member of Citymeals-on-Wheels, and New York Restoration Project. Rockwell also conceived and developed Imagination Playground pro-bono, a play space designed to encourage children to work together to create their own worlds of play. After five years of research on children and play, the first site-specific location opened in collaboration with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation at Burling Slip in Manhattan in 2010. Rockwell Group developed portable, scalable models that can transform smaller, unused areas into play spaces. Through the U.N.I.C.E.F. P.L.A.Y. Project, in partnership with Disney, the blocks have been distributed to more than 13,000 children in Bangladesh and Haiti.


Awards

Rockwell's honors include the 2016 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for the musical ''She Loves Me'' and six Tony Award nominations for Best Scenic Design, the AIA New York Chapter President's Award; the 2008 National Design Award by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for outstanding achievement in Interior Design; the 2009 Pratt Legends Award; the Presidential Design Award for his renovation of the
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; induction into the James Beard Foundation Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America and Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame; inclusion in Architectural Digest's AD 100; and the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical for ''She Loves Me'' and five Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical. Rockwell Group was named by Fast Company in 2008, 2014 and 2015 as one of the most innovative design practices in their annual World's 50 Most Innovative Companies issue. Rockwell is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. World Winners
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Select design projects

* Chefs Club by Food & Wine, New York * Gordon Ramsay's Maze (London) * Maialino, New York *
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restaurants worldwide, including New York, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Doha, Melbourne and Dubai * Aloft hotels (Starwood Hotels & Resorts) * Andaz Maui at Wailea, Hawaii *
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* Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace, Las Vegas * Nobu Hotel Eden Roc Miami Beach * W Hotels New York, Union Square, Vieques, Paris, Singapore, and Madrid * Hall of Fragments, the entrance installation to the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale * Walt Disney Family Museum * The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta * Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Center * The Shed (Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Leader Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect) * 15 Hudson Yards in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro * TED Theater, Vancouver *
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, home of the Academy Awards ceremony (Los Angeles) * The Marketplace at the JetBlue terminal at
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, New York, Los Angeles * Shinola * Imagination Playground * Moxy Chelsea * The New York EDITION * Rockwell Unscripted for Knoll * Union Square Cafe *
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* Hayes Theater *The Perelman, New York City (Restaurant and Lobby Interior Architect) *93rd Oscars, Production Design *Hopkins Student Center for Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore *Climate Change Arena, Seattle *DineOut NYC pro bono initiative


Set design

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The Rocky Horror Show ''The Rocky Horror Show'' is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple ...
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All Shook Up "All Shook Up" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley, published by Elvis Presley Music, and composed by Otis Blackwell. The single topped the U.S. ''Billboard'' Top 100 on April 13, 1957, staying there for eight weeks. It also topped the ''Bil ...
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Legally Blonde ''Legally Blonde'' is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic in his List of directorial debuts, feature-length directorial debut, and scripted by Karen McCullah, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (writer), Kirsten Smith from ...
'' * '' Team America: World Police'' (2004, film) * '' The 81st Annual Academy Awards'' (2009) * '' The 82nd Annual Academy Awards'' (2010) * ''
The Normal Heart ''The Normal Heart'' is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a promi ...
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Catch Me If You Can ''Catch Me If You Can'' is a 2002 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams and James ...
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On The Twentieth Century ''On the Twentieth Century'' is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Based partly on the 1932 play ''Twentieth Century'' and its 1934 film adaptation, the musical is part operetta, part farce an ...
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She Loves Me ''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 fil ...
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On Your Feet! ''On Your Feet!'' is a jukebox musical that played on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. Based on the lives and music of 26-time Grammy Award-winning husband-and-wife team Gloria and Emilio Estefan, the musical has a book written by Alexander Dinel ...
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Falsettos ''Falsettos'' is a sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn. The musical consists of ''March of the Falsettos'' (1981) and ''Falsettoland'' (1990), the last two installments in a trio of on ...
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Lobby Hero ''Lobby Hero'' is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2001. Production history ''Lobby Hero'' premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, on March 13, 2001, and closed on April 15, 2001, reopening at the John Houseman Th ...
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Pretty Woman ''Pretty Woman'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton. The film stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, and features Héctor Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy (in his final performance), La ...
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Tootsie ''Tootsie'' is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman. Its supporting cast includes Pollack, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Charles Durning, George Ga ...
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Books

* ''Pleasure: The Architecture and Design of Rockwell Group'', Universe, a division of Rizzoli Books, 2002. * David Rockwell with Bruce Mau, ''Spectacle'', Phaidon Press, 2006. Examines the history and public fascination with larger-than-life man-made events.
''What If...?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell''
Metropolis Books, 2014. *
Drama by David Rockwell
', Phaidon, May 2021


See also

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References


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rockwell, David 1956 births Living people American architects American scenic designers Artists from Chicago Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco People from Guadalajara, Jalisco People from Deal, New Jersey Primetime Emmy Award winners Syracuse University alumni Tony Award winners