Michael Middleton Dwyer

Michael Dwyer is an American architect, known for designing new buildings in traditional vocabularies. He was the editor of Great Houses of the Hudson River (2001), and the author of Carolands (2006).

Michael Dwyer
Garden Pavilion on the Hudson River
Born1954
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia College (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (MArch)
OccupationArchitect

Education and career

Michael Dwyer graduated from Columbia College and received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

He was associated from 1981 to 1996 with the architecture firm Buttrick White & Burtis, where he helped design the Saint Thomas Choir School, a fifteen-story boarding school in Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1987.[2][3] He was a member of the team that designed the Dana Discovery Center, an environmental education center and exhibition space, completed in 1993 as part of the Central Park Conservancy's rehabilitation of the Harlem Meer in New York City's Central Park.[4][5] In an interview with the magazine Progressive Architecture in December 1993, Dwyer noted that the building's "picturesque character" was intended to reinforce the park's "romantic landscape design."[6][4] From 1992 to 1993, he was part of the team of architects that restored Bonnie Dune, the Southampton residence of Ambassador Carl Spielvogel and his wife, the preservationist Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, a project executed in collaboration with the interior designer Jed Johnson.[7]

While at Buttrick White & Burtis, Dwyer was an advocate for New York's prewar, classical style of architecture. In a 1995 survey by The New York Times of the then-emerging school of neoclassical architecture, the reporter Patricia Leigh Brown noted that, "Michael Dwyer...an architect at Buttrick White & Burtis...has recently completed a classical-style yacht and an $8.95 million town house on the Upper East Side,"[8] a house characterized by the architect Robert Stern as "...scholarly...reflecting the elegant manner of Ange-Jacques Gabriel."[9]

After establishing his own firm in 1996, Dwyer was the architect for the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument in New York City's Riverside Park, designed by the landscape architects Kelly/Varnell, with a statue sculpted by Penelope Jencks and inscriptions designed by Dwyer.[10] In 1997, he restored the exterior of the Francis F. Palmer House at 75 East 93rd Street, a designated New York City landmark. From 1998 to 2008, he was the architect for the restoration of the Cosmopolitan Club, a private social club for women.

In addition to institutional projects, Dwyer designed residential projects for the upper strata of New York's private sector. The financier Dick Jenrette, who called Dwyer his "favorite young neoclassical architect," commissioned him to build a pair of classical pavilions at Edgewater, Jenrette's Hudson River Valley villa.[11] The July 2018 issue of Architectural Digest featured Hollyhock, Dwyer's design for a new house in Southampton for the real-estate executive Mary Ann Tighe, a collaboration with interior designer Bunny Williams, comparable in scale and detail to the prewar houses of architect David Adler and interior designer Frances Elkins.[12][13]

Representative works
  • 35 Meter Cruising Yacht (completed 1995).[14]
  • Nureyev Apartment, The Dakota, New York City (alteration completed 1995).[8]
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Monument, Riverside Park, New York City (dedicated 1996).[10]
  • Windsong (Residence), Shimmo Beach, Nantucket (completed 1996).
  • Francis F. Palmer House, 75 East 93rd St., New York City (restoration completed 1997).[15]
  • Garden Pavilion and Poolhouse, Edgewater, Barrytown, New York (completed 1997).[16]
  • Maisonette duplex, 960 Fifth Avenue, New York City (completed 1999).[17]
  • Longview, 27 Gin Lane, Village of Southampton, NY (new residence completed 2000).[18]
  • Mead Point, Indian Field Road, Greenwich, CT (new residence completed 2001).[19]
  • Stone Cottage, Toylsome Place, Southampton, NY (new residence completed 2004).
  • Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY. (restoration 1998–2008).
  • New Sommariva, Jefferys Lane, East Hampton, NY (new residence completed 2009).
  • Hollyhock, Ox Pasture Road, Southampton, NY (new residence completed 2016).[12][13]
  • Triplex Penthouse, San Remo, Central Park West, New York City (alteration completed 2017).[20]

Bibliography
  • Carl A. Pearson (author); Michael Dwyer (illustrator). "Up in Central Park on the shore of Harlem Meer," Architectural Record (March 1990).[21]
  • Mark Alden Branch (author); Michael Dwyer (illustrator). "Flirting with folly in Central Park," Progressive Architecture (August 1991).[22]
  • Michael Dwyer. "Buildings in public parks," Clem Labine's Traditional Building (March/April 1995): 26, 28, 30; ISSN: 0898-0284
  • Michael Dwyer. "Building with stone," Clem Labine's Traditional Building (March/April 1996): 25–26; ISSN: 0898-0284.
  • Michael Dwyer. "The arts and crafts in architecture today," Classicist No. 3 (1996–97): 90–96; ISBN: 1-56000-936-5
  • Michael Dwyer, ed., with preface by Mark Rockefeller. Great Houses of the Hudson River (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001).[23]
  • Michael Dwyer, with a foreword by Mario Buatta. Carolands (Redwood City, CA: San Mateo County Historical Association, 2006).[24]

See also

References
  1. "Thank you to our FY16 CCT donors". Columbia College Today. Fall 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Miller, Clay (March 12, 1992). "St. Thomas Choir School" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. Joseph Giovannini (September 17, 1987). "Young Voices Soar at the New St. Thomas Choir School". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  4. Stern, Robert (2006). New York 2000. New York: The Monacelli Press. p. 788. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  5. Branch, Mark Alden (August 1991). "Flirting with Folly in Central Park" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
  6. Arcidi, Philip (December 1993). "Learning by the Rules" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  7. Johnson, Jay (2005). Jed Johnson, Opulent Restraint (First ed.). New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847827145. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  8. Brown, Patricia Leigh (February 9, 1995). "Architecture's young old fogies". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  9. Stern, Robert (2006). New York 2000. New York: The Monacelli Press. p. 932. Retrieved July 18, 2022. The house is at 14 East 81st Street.
  10. Phifer, Jean (2009). Public Art New York. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 148. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  11. Richard H. Jenrette, Adventures with Old Houses (Charleston, SC: Wyrick & Co., 2000).
  12. Shaw, Dan (July 2018). "Top Tier Design Team Breathes Elegance into a Southampton Estate". Architectural Digest. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  13. Williams, Bunny (April 2019). Love Affairs with Houses. New York: Abrams. p. 13. ISBN 9781419734649. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  14. Editors of The Classicist, with an introduction by Robert A.M. Stern, A Decade of Art & Architecture 1992–2002 (New York: Institute of Classical Architecture, 2002).
  15. Records of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
  16. Richard H. Jenrette, Adventures with Old Houses (Charleston, SC: Wyrick & Co., 2000).
  17. NYC Department of Buildings, Letter of Completion #101756823, March 3, 1999.
  18. Elizabeth Pochoda. "Taking the Long View." House & Garden (August 2001).
  19. Laura Beach, "Sojourn on the Sound." Antiques & Fine Art (Summer 2006).
  20. Kathryn Brenzel, "Inside the World of Luxury Renovations," The Real Deal (February 16, 2016).
  21. Pearson, Clifford (March 1990). "Up in Central Park on the shore of Harlem Meer" (PDF). Architectural Record. 174: 19. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  22. Branch, Mark Alden (August 1991). "Flirting with Folly in Central Park" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
  23. Great Houses of the Hudson River. WorldCat. OCLC 47983424.
  24. Carolands. WorldCat. OCLC 77238885.
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