Norma Merrick Sklarek belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Norma Merrick Sklarek as American architect (1926–2012).
Norma Merrick Sklarek was born in 1926. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Columbia University and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Norma Merrick Sklarek died in 2012, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Columbia University and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
