Nationality American Name Richard Wurman | Role Architect | |
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Born March 26, 1935 (age 89)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1935-03-26 ) Institutions 19.20.21; TEDMED; WWW Conference; 555 Conference Education University of Pennsylvania (1959) Residence Newport, Rhode Island, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Fields Architecture, Information architecture, Design Books Information Anxiety 2, 33: Understanding Change, Understanding Healthcare, Understanding Children, Access New York City 10e Similar People Julius Wiedemann, Mark Frost, David Lynch, Alan Levy | ||
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Richard Saul Wurman (born March 26, 1935) is an American architect and graphic designer. Wurman has written and designed at least 83 books, and created the TED conference, as well as the EG conference, TEDMED and the WWW suite of gatherings.
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- Conversation with richard saul wurman one way richard saul wurman at tedxgrandrapids
- Bif 4 richard saul wurman information architect for the world s greatest cities
- Career
- Personal life
- Publications
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Bif 4 richard saul wurman information architect for the world s greatest cities
Career
Richard Saul Wurman has written, designed and published at least 83 books on divergent topics. Two of these are the Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn (1963) and What Will Be Has Always Been (1986), the seminal collection of the words of Kahn. His books include the Access travel series (starting with Access/LA in 1980) and several books on healthcare.
Wurman chaired the IDCA Conference in 1972, the First Federal Design assembly in 1973, and the annual American Institute of Architects (AIA) Conference in 1976.
Wurman received both his B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, completing his graduate degree in 1959, with the highest honors; he was awarded the Arthur Spayed Brooks Gold Medal. He has been awarded several honorary doctorates, Graham Fellowships, a Guggenheim and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Wurman has also been awarded the Annual Gold Medal from Trinity College, Dublin, a Gold Medal from AIGA and received the Boston Science Museum's 50th Annual Bradford Washburn Award in October, 2014. He is also a Fellow of the AIA and in the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame.
He continues to work with Esri and RadicalMedia on his comparative cartographic initiative for mapping urban settings, 19.20.21, which will culminate in the creation of a network of live Urban Observatories around the world.
Wurman created and chaired several conferences: TED from 1984 through 2003, TEDMED from 1995 through 2010, and the WWW conference.
Wurman also supports SENS Research Foundation, a nonprofit biotechnology organization that seeks to repair the damages of aging and extend healthy lifespan.
Personal life
Wurman lives in Golden Beach, Florida with his wife, novelist Gloria Nagy, and their three pet dogs. They have four children and six grandchildren.
Publications
Information Anxiety
