Tasso Katselas (born 1927) is an architect in the United States known for his modernist concrete buildings especially in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work includes Pittsburgh International Airport, public housing, and mansions.[1] His firm was known as Tasso Katselas Associates and became TKA when he semi-retired in 2005 while continuing to consult for the firm.
Katselas' parents immigrated to the United States from Greece. His work includes public housing and civic structures.[2]
He grew up in East Pittsburgh and studied architecture at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). He taught at Kansas State College and designed a chapel for the Fallingwater property after Frank Lloyd Wright recommended him to Liliane Kaufmann for the design of a chapel but she died and the project was never built. He opened his own architectural firm in Pittsburgh in 1955.[2]
He designed a house for his family that was built in 1964.[3][4]
Personal life
editKatselas married Jane Banning in 1951. They have two daughters, Dana and Lisa.[5] Lisa Katselas is a film producer and college professor.
Work
edit- Manchester Bidwell Corporation
- New terminal building, Pittsburgh International Airport[6]
- Carnegie Science Center
- Pittsburgh Technical College
- Community College of Allegheny County
- Saint Vincent College monastery and college master plan after a major fire[7][8]
- Katselas house
- Allegheny Commons East[9]
- Information Sciences Building, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, previously the home of the former School of Information Science and originally the American Institutes for Research Building. Brutalist
References
edit- ^ "Million-Dollar Mansions: Designed By The Airport's Architect". 23 June 2018. Archived from the original on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ a b "The Brick and Concrete of Pittsburgh's Most Prolific Architect". Bloomberg. 19 October 2018.
- ^ "What's next for the mid-century modern Katselas house?". 2 June 2014.
- ^ "Architectural Record". McGraw-Hill. 25 October 1979 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Home". www.tassokatselas.com.
- ^ "Architecture". American Institute of Architects. 1 July 1993 – via Google Books.
- ^ Emanuel, Muriel (23 January 2016). Contemporary Architects. Springer. ISBN 9781349041848 – via Google Books.
- ^ Record, Architectural (25 October 1979). Religious buildings. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070023420 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Professional Builder & Apartment Business". Cahners Publishing Company. 1 January 1974 – via Google Books.