Wilfred Armster

Wilfred John Oskar Armster
BornSeptember 11, 1938
The Bronx, New York
DiedMay 13, 2019
Guilford, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect

Wilfred John Oskar Armster was an American architect, and principal of the Connecticut-based Wilfred Armster Architects.

Education and early work

Armster was born in Manhattan in 1938, and raised in The Bronx, New York, until beginning college in 1956. After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Armster studied at several schools and colleges, including Gettysburg and Syracuse, and studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich, eventually completing his a degree in architecture at the University of Michigan in 1964. He began his career at the Detroit offices of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in the mid-1960s. After moving to CT in 1968 and working in New Haven, CT for Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates in the late 1960s, Armster established his own firm in Guilford, CT, in 1971.

Residential projects

Farmington Bridge House, 1981
"Spaceship" building, Guilford, CT
This unusually-shaped building houses high-end condos

Armster’s geometrically austere structures contain frequent references to bridges, walls and holes, and usually feature at least one side with no openings or windows. Many of his residential buildings were designed for difficult, steeply sloped lots. He won his first AIA Award for The Bridge House in Farmington, CT, a toppled “L”-form built on a steeply wooded site, pictured here. A later Bridge House by Armster is located in Ann Arbor, MI, and features a 120-foot span over a meadow between two hills. The Ann Arbor project won the AIA Connecticut 2009 Design Award, whose jury cited the project’s “taut simplicity.”

Armster’s projects are frequently constructed with minimum changes to the natural state of the sites on which they are built. Several have had trees growing through them, though some have been removed by owners. His inclination to leave the trees as close to his buildings remained with him throughout his life and career, including in his own home.

Armster's 1987 project in Guilford, Connecticut, an elongated copper-clad structure, was initially opposed by local residents who felt its modernist form was incompatible with the town’s colonial heritage.[1] However, the building has become a well recognized and accepted landmark in the decades since.[2]

Awards

  • CSA AIA Award, 1981 – Farmington Bridge House, Farmington, CT
  • AIA Connecticut 2009 Design Award – Bridge House, Ann Arbor, MI[3]

Publications

  • South Carolina Architecture 1970-2000, Clemson University Press, pp, 64-65

References

  1. ^ "30 years later, Guilford architect reflects on controversial 'spaceship' design; Once controversial, it is now embraced by residents". New Haven Register. October 11, 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  2. ^ "The Spaceship Down the Street (Published 2009)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-03-09.
  3. ^ AIA Connecticut Awards

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