Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango (29 November 1917 – 21 October 2007) was a Colombian-born US architect.Arango was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and educated in Chile, Colombia and at Harvard. Arango was invited to come to America by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the U.S. State Department.
He was co-founder of the Arango design store in the Dadeland Mall in South Miami in 1959 with his then-wife, Judith. The store, which still exists, was an early beacon of good design, a pre-Luminaire. At Arango, designers could equip the 1960s Bauhaus-inspired homes in Coconut Grove with Iittala glassware and Alvar Aalto chairs.
An advocate of a minimalist architecture and maximum human value in design, Arango was a designer, educator, and writer. He taught architecture at the University of California Berkeley in the 1950s, For years he wrote passionate columns against developments in Miami like Bayside, and condo towers that blocked the streets off from the water. He designed several modest-size homes in Miami that displayed his design credo: an open flow of rooms, natural breezes, large windows, no baseboards, small tiles in the bathroom, large tiles in the rest of the home.
He was a professor of Architecture at the District University of Bogotá, a columnist for the Miami Herald, and a correspondent for magazines like Metropolitan Home and Elle Décor. Over the years he wrote many books including "The Urbanization of the Earth" (1970), "Villa Sofia" (2003), and "Ecophilia: The Future Is Waiting" (2000).
Arango died at home in Miami in hospice care. He was survived by his third wife, Penelope, two sons and two daughters, and the design store. Provided by Wikipedia
-
1
-
2by Gonzálo Correa Arango, Jaime Ordóñez, Oswaldo Restrepo, Óscar Raigoza, Andrés Lopera, Esteban Gómez, Jorge Arango, Juan Carlos RestrepoGet full text
Published 2001-04-01
Article -
3by Peter C. Fino, Margaret M. Weightman, Leland E. Dibble, Mark E. Lester, Mark E. Lester, Carrie W. Hoppes, Lucy Parrington, Jorge Arango, Alicia Souvignier, Holly Roberts, Laurie A. KingGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
Article -
4
-
5by Joseph F. Quinn, Tushar Patel, David Wong, Saumya Das, Jane E. Freedman, Louise C. Laurent, Bob S. Carter, Fred Hochberg, Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, Matt Huentelman, Robert Spetzler, M. Yashar S. Kalani, Jorge Arango, P. David Adelson, Howard L. Weiner, Roopali Gandhi, Beatrice Goilav, Chaim Putterman, Julie A. SaugstadGet full text
Published 2015-08-01
Article -
6by Julie A. Saugstad, Theresa A. Lusardi, Kendall R. Van Keuren-Jensen, Jay I. Phillips, Babett Lind, Christina A. Harrington, Trevor J. McFarland, Amanda L. Courtright, Rebecca A. Reiman, Ashish S. Yeri, M. Yashar S. Kalani, P. David Adelson, Jorge Arango, John P. Nolan, Erika Duggan, Karen Messer, Johnny C. Akers, Douglas R. Galasko, Joseph F. Quinn, Bob S. Carter, Fred H. HochbergGet full text
Published 2017-12-01
Article -
7by Louise C. Laurent, Asim B. Abdel-Mageed, P. David Adelson, Jorge Arango, Leonora Balaj, Xandra Breakefield, Elizabeth Carlson, Bob S. Carter, Blanca Majem Cavaller, Clark C. Chen, Emanuele Cocucci, Kirsty Danielson, Amanda Courtright, Saumya Das, Zakaria Y. Abd Elmageed, Daniel Enderle, Alan Ezrin, Marc Ferrer, Jane Freedman, David Galas, Roopali Gandhi, Matthew J. Huentelman, Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, Yashar Kalani, Yong Kim, Anna M. Krichevsky, Charles Lai, Madhu Lal-Nag, Clara D. Laurent, Trevor Leonardo, Feng Li, Ivana Malenica, Debasis Mondal, Parham Nejad, Tushar Patel, Robert L. Raffai, Renee Rubio, Johan Skog, Robert Spetzler, Jie Sun, Kahraman Tanriverdi, Kasey Vickers, Liang Wang, Yaoyu Wang, Zhiyun Wei, Howard L. Weiner, David Wong, Irene K. Yan, Ashish Yeri, Stephen GouldGet full text
Published 2015-08-01
Article