Object Title
Audio interview with Jean Gardner, Marty Spiegel and Karyn Issa Ginsberg
Part of
Michael Kalil Oral History Project
Material Category
Digital Audio
Description
Archivist Jennifer Larson interviews a group of Michael Kalil's friends and colleagues at 66 West 12th Street on the New School's campus. Jean Gardner, Karyn Issa, and Marty Spiegel discuss Kalil’s childhood and Lebanese heritage, as well as his time at a Coptic Christian seminary. Kalil’s education, at the Pratt Institute and elsewhere, is also discussed. The three detail Kalil’s clients, residential and commercial, as well as Kalil’s employers prior to starting his own design studio on 76th Street. A discussion of particularly influential texts and persons constitutes a good part of this interview; among these include Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, The Art of Space, Mies van der Rohe, Carlo Scarpa, and Louis Kahn. Many personal anecdotes about Kalil and his business are related by the group to the interviewer.
Date
April 5 2011
Related people
Jean Gardner (interviewee)
Marty Spiegel, 1948- (interviewee)
Karyn Issa Ginsberg (interviewee)
Jennifer Larson (interviewer)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (publisher)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (producer)
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)
Identifier
PC070105_KalilGroup_20110405
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Material Category
Digital AudioDescription
Archivist Jennifer Larson interviews a group of Michael Kalil's friends and colleagues at 66 West 12th Street on the New School's campus. Jean Gardner, Karyn Issa, and Marty Spiegel discuss Kalil’s childhood and Lebanese heritage, as well as his time at a Coptic Christian seminary. Kalil’s education, at the Pratt Institute and elsewhere, is also discussed. The three detail Kalil’s clients, residential and commercial, as well as Kalil’s employers prior to starting his own design studio on 76th Street. A discussion of particularly influential texts and persons constitutes a good part of this interview; among these include Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, The Art of Space, Mies van der Rohe, Carlo Scarpa, and Louis Kahn. Many personal anecdotes about Kalil and his business are related by the group to the interviewer.Date
April 5 2011Related people
Jean Gardner (interviewee)Marty Spiegel, 1948- (interviewee)
Karyn Issa Ginsberg (interviewee)
Jennifer Larson (interviewer)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (publisher)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (producer)
Language
EnglishRights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)Identifier
PC070105_KalilGroup_20110405There’s more! What you see on this site is only what is viewable online. Please visit archives.newschool.edu to find out more about what’s in the archives.