Richard Dattner &
Partners Architects
Richard Dattner & Partners, a New York firm of 25 architects, was founded by Richard Dattner in 1964. It specializes in building for educational institutions, public agencies, not-for-profit groups, corporate clients, and historic preservation and adaptive reuse. The firm has received more than 100 design awards. Among their buildings in the New York area are: the New York Public Library Bronx Library Center; IS/HS 362 Bronx; Intrepid Museum Master Plan; the McBurney YMCA; the Estee Lauder Home Office/Labs/Research Center Facilities; Columbus Circle Station Complex Rehab; West 72nd Subway Station; No. Seven Subway Line Extension; Administration for Children’s Services; 33rd Police Precinct; and New Firehouse, Bronx.
Richard Dattner
Richard Dattner was born in Bielsko, Poland. He fled from wartime Poland with his parents in 1940. The family traveled first to Italy, then to Cuba, and finally to the United States. Dattner attended the Architectural Association of London and received his Bachelor of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His fluency in Spanish later helped him work with neighborhood groups in bilingual communities such as New York's Washington Heights, where he now lives. Dattner has held faculty positions at Cooper Union, City College of New York and the University of Wisconsin and lectured at Columbia University, Princeton University Cornell University and MIT. Dattner was the recipient of the 1992 Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architects of New York, and is the author of Design for Play and Civic Architecture – the New Public Infrastructure. In 1994 Dattner was the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award from the National American Institute of Architects for “his significant contributions to public architecture.”