Paul Marantz is an American architectural lighting designer, whose work includes the discothèque Studio 54,[1][2] the Times Square Ball,[3][4][5] the Tribute in Light,[2][3] the Barnes Foundation,[6][7] and the Burj Khalifa.[8][9] He is a founder of the lighting design firm Fisher Marantz Stone.[2][10]

Education and early career

Marantz received a B.A. from Oberlin College and did graduate work at Case Western Reserve University and Brooklyn College.[11] In 1968, he established an architectural lighting design firm with Jules Fisher.[12]

Awards and honors

Marantz has received numerous Lumen Citations from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) for projects including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the restoration of Radio City Music Hall, the Times Square Ball, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel.[4] He received the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Award for Excellence for the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and he received an IALD Citation for the restoration of the Rainbow Room.[4] New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp described Marantz, as a “lighting genius.”[13]

Selected projects

References

  1. ^ a b "Studio 54," Architectural Record, Vol. 163, No. 1 (Jan. 1978), pp. 84-87.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Finn, Robin. "PUBLIC LIVES; From Disco Floors to Skylines, Illuminating Life," The New York Times, New York, March 29, 2002. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Special Projects, http://www.fmsp.com/port_11.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c "Paul Marantz | Designers & Books". Designersandbooks.com. February 7, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  5. ^ a b Kushner, David. "This New Year's Eve, Technology Will Drop the Ball,” The New York Times, New York, December 30, 1999. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  6. ^ a b Smith, Roberta. "A Museum, Reborn, Remains True to Its Old Self, Only Better,” The New York Times, New York, May 17, 2012. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  7. ^ a b c Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Museums, http://www.fmsp.com/port_06.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  8. ^ a b Lentz, Linda C. “Shedding Light on the World’s Tallest Building: Three firms illuminate the Burj Khalifa with alternating restraint and spectacle,” Architectural Record, August 2010. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  9. ^ a b Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Tower, http://www.fmsp.com/port_15.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  10. ^ Fisher Marantz Stone, Our Studio: People, http://www.fmsp.com/studio_01.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014
  11. ^ a b Brady, Kevin. "Byzantine Mystique," Lighting Design + Application, Jan. 1999, Vol. 29, No. 1, http://www.ies.org/pdf/archives/1999_01.pdf.
  12. ^ "Jules Fisher - Architectural Lighting Magazine". Archlighting.com. December 2, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  13. ^ Muschamp, Herbert. "A NATION CHALLENGED: CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; In Lights at Ground Zero, Steps Toward Illumination," The New York Times, New York, March 12, 2002. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  14. ^ a b Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Spiritual, http://www.fmsp.com/port_12.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  15. ^ Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Theatre, http://www.fmsp.com/port_13.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  16. ^ Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Renovation, http://www.fmsp.com/port_07.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  17. ^ Fisher Marantz Stone, Portfolio: Library, http://www.fmsp.com/port_05.htm. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  18. ^ Traub, James. 2004. The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. New York: Random House, pp. 157-159.
  19. ^ Sagalyn, Lynne B. 2001. Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, p. 257.
  20. ^ Gopnik, Adam. “Times Regained,” The New Yorker, March 22, 2004. Retrieved on April 25, 2014.

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