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Albert Mayer was born on Wednesday, December 29, 1897 (age 83 at death) in New York City. In 1919, he received degrees in engineering from Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meyer became interested in social impact design after working in the civil engineering field for several years after college. After a few years he decided to become an architect.
Family
parents and siblings
There is not much information about his parents and siblings.
wife and children
Albert Mayer first married Phyllis Carter and then divorced her for unknown reasons. His second wife, Marion Mill Preminger, died in 1972. Meyer married for the third time in 1975, to Magda Pastor. Stella Staltonstall, Kerry Meyer and Rafael Pastor Meyer have three children.
livelihood
Albert Mayer began his career as a civil engineer in New York City. First, he was co-founder and senior partner of the firm Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass, established in 1935, and then a planning consultant who worked in India, British Columbia, and Israel. He was the master planner of Chandigarh, a city in India that achieved international acclaim in the 1950s when Le Corbusier was commissioned to design its major public structures.
Chandigarh Master Plan by Albert Mayer
Mayer’s last work in New York was ‘East Harlem Plaza’, an open-air cultural and sports center built in 1960. At the age of 64, Mayer retired from the Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass firm in 1961 but worked as a consultant. After that.
Architecture in Manhattan
Albert worked on several large-scale projects in New York and due to his keen interest in the field, the US government agreed to change its housing policy in the 1930s, thus creating ‘The United States Housing Authority’ in 1937. Started. He designed many buildings. Manhattan includes:-
- Butterfield House, 37 West 12th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
- 240 Central Park South, Manhattan.
- 1950’s Manhattan house. (co-designed)
- East Harlem Plaza, Manhattan
- 333 E 69th St, Manhattan. (co-design)
master plan in india
While Albert Mayer was managing the construction of airfields in Bengal, he developed a keen interest in Indian life and culture. Their pilot project was in rural Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India. Recognition gained through planning:-
- Gujarat University Master Plan
- Allahabad Agricultural Institute Master Plan
- Uttar Pradesh Pilot Development Project
- Uttar Pradesh General Community Development
- Consultant on the Master Plan for Greater Bombay (1947)
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- Medal of Honor from ‘New York Chapter’
- Certificate of Merit from the ‘Municipal Art Society of New York’
- An award from the ‘American Society of Landscape Architects’
Death
On October 14, 1981, Albert Mayer died following a cardiac arrest at his home in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 83.
Facts/General Knowledge
- [In1945AlbertMayermetJawaharlalNehruanddiscussedaplanof”modelvillages”thatwouldcreateagoodhousinghygieneandcommunitystructure.
Albert Mayer’s Urban Village
- After the Mayor gave a structured master plan to Chandigarh; He wrote to Jawaharlal Nehru,
I think we will be able to modernize it (Chandigarh) with a completely Indian spirit and functioning.”
Albert Mayer and his master plan of Chandigarh
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