James Wines

The main focus of his design work is on green issues and the integration of buildings with their surrounding contexts. Wines is currently a professor of architecture at Penn State University. In addition to critical writing, he has lectured in fifty-two countries on green topics since 1969. In 1987, his book De-Architecture was released by Rizzoli International Publications. There have been twenty two monographic books museum catalogues have published his drawings, models, and built works for SITE. In total, Wines has designed more than 150 projects for private and municipal clients in eleven countries. He has won twenty-five writing and design awards including the 1995 Chrysler Design Award. Wines explicitly expresses his own "concern for the Earth," having written at length on new modes of architecture, design, and planning: The [20th] century began with architects being inspired by an emerging age of industry and technology. Everybody wanted to believe a building could somehow function like a combustion engine. But as a continuing inspiration in our post-industrial world, or our new world of information and ecology, it doesn't make any sense. • --from the film Ecological Design: Inventing the Future

James Wines studied at Syracuse University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is natural environment and jewelry design. Employment is recorded with Pennsylvania State University. Works named in the authority record are Three Bronze Discs. Work by James Wines is recorded in the collections of Tate, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — James Wines • Born — 1932 • Birthplace — Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. • Practice — SITE • Significant Projects — *Ghost Parking Lot • Forest Building • Highway 86 Art • Shake Shack kiosk in Madison Square Park • Best building in Towson Place • Awards — *Smithsonian National Design Award (2013) • Premio di Architettura ANCE (2011) • Chrysler Design Award (1995) • Architectural Record Award for Excellence in Residential Design (1985) • Pulitzer Prize for Graphic Art (1955) • Illustration — Shake Shack kiosk in Madison Square Park designed by Wines and SITE in 2004

James Wines graduated from Syracuse University in 1956. He became a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome that year and was bestowed a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962. He then began his career as a sculptor and graphic designer, exhibiting with the Otto Gerson Gallery (subsequently Marlborough Gallery) in New York. Wines’ corporate clients include Swatch, MCA Universal, MTV, Nickelodeon, Williwear, Isuzu, Disney, Costa Coffee, Carrabba's Restaurants, Saporiti Italia, Brinker International, Allsteel, Ranger Italia, Reliance Energy Corporation, and Denny's. Among municipal clients, he has worked for the cities of Hiroshima, Yokohama, Toyama, Seville, Vienna, Vancouver, Le Puy en Velay, Chattanooga, and New York City. His original drawings for these projects have graced the covers of dozens of international design magazines. As an educator, Wines originally held adjunct positions at the New School for Social Research (1963–65) and a number of other institutions. In 1974, he taught as an Associate Professor of Fine Art in the New York University Department of Art and Arts Professions. This was followed by visiting professorships at Dartmouth College, the University of Wisconsin, New Jersey School of Architecture, and Cooper Union Design Center. He was chair of the Environmental Design department at Parsons School of Design from 1984 to 1990. After teaching at Domus Academy in Italy and at the University of Oklahoma, he became a professor of architecture at Pennsylvania State University in 1999. Wines has built a legacy of mentoring emerging art talent, including noted designer, Alex Donahue. Wines' daughter Suzan is also an architect and co-owns the firm I-Beam Design with fellow architect Azin Valy. Both Suzan and Azin are graduates of Cooper Union.

• Best Products showrooms, including the Forest Building • Grey Disc, the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection (1968) • Indeterminate Facade; Houston, Texas (1970) • Tilt Show Room; Towson, Maryland (1978) • Forest Building, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1978) • Terrarium Show Rooms, Ink (1979) • Ghost Parking Lot; Hamden, Connecticut (1978) • High Rise Homes, Ink, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1981) • The Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art; Competition Entry, Frankfurt, Germany (1983) • Highway 86; Vancouver, Canada (1985) • Laurie Mallet House; New York City (1985) • World Ecology Building; Seville, Spain (1990) • Avenue Number Five; Seville, Spain (1992) • Horoscope Ring, Toyama, Japan (1992) • Aquatorium, Chattanooga, Tennessee (1993) • Ross's Landing Park and Plaza; Chattanooga, Tennessee (1992) • Unbuilt Proposal for Museum of Islamic Arts (1996) • Chili's Grill and Bar, Arapaho Crossing, Colorado (1998) • Carrabba's Italian Grill, Orlando, Florida (1998) • Residence Antilia (unbuilt) (2003) • Shake Shack kiosk at Madison Square Park, New York City (2004)

James Wines is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship.