Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
| Barbara Stauffacher Solomon | |
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| Born | 1928 San Francisco, CA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley Bachelor of Arts, History Department, UC, Berkeley Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, Switzerland San Francisco Art Institute |
| Awards |
San Francisco Arts Commissioner, 2001-2005 NEA Distinguished Design Fellow, 1990 ASLA Honor Award. Regis Garden, Walker Art Center Commonwealth Club of California, Silver Medal, 1989 American Academy in Rome, Fellowship, 1983 AIA Industrial Arts Medal, 1970 AIA awards for Supergraphics, The Sea Ranch, Ghiradelli Square, 1966-1970 Governor's Design Award, State of California, 1966 |
Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts, History Department, UC, Berkeley
Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, Switzerland
San Francisco Arts Commissioner, 2001-2005
NEA Distinguished Design Fellow, 1990
ASLA Honor Award. Regis Garden, Walker Art Center
Commonwealth Club of California, Silver Medal, 1989
American Academy in Rome, Fellowship, 1983
AIA Industrial Arts Medal, 1970
AIA awards for Supergraphics, The Sea Ranch, Ghiradelli Square, 1966-1970
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (born 1928) is a landscape architect and graphic designer well known for the large scale interior Supergraphics and exterior signage at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County, California.
As a young woman Solomon studied and worked as a dancer, as well as studying painting and sculpture at San Francisco Art Institute. In 1948 she married Frank Stauffacher. Solomon moved to Basel, Switzerland in 1956 after Stauffacher's death to study graphic design at the Basel Art Institute with Armin Hoffman. She later studied Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
On her return to San Francisco she designed the monthly program guides for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In the short period of its existence from 1970 until 1971 she was art director of Scanlan's Magazine.
Solomon was an instructor at Harvard and Yale. She later set up an office as a graphic designer in San Francisco.
In 1995, she designed a large outdoor art installation called "Promenade Ribbon" for the city of San Francisco.
In 2002, Solomon was a member of the San Francisco Art Commission.
In 2015, Solomon works as a landscape architect.
Solomon is the author of the book Why? Why not?.
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