Dominique Berninger

Dominique Berninger
Born	May 31, 1898 France
Died	December 5, or December 6, 1949 Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Architect
Awards	1939 Philadelphia Competition for Housing projects (slated to work on Germantown Housing Project with Edmund R. Purves - George S. Idell Group (but project didn't go ahead.) Various (see listed alongside works)
Practice	Partner in Carswell, Berninger & Bower (ca. 1933-1935), Berninger & Bower (1935-1945) Berninger, Haag & d'Entremont (1946)
Buildings	New York World's Fair French Pavilion (1939)

Dominique Berninger, AIA, (1898–1949), was a French-born American architect based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States, who practiced nationally in the mid twentieth century but particularly in Pennsylvania. He is best known for his design of the French Pavilion for the New York World's Fair of 1939. Together with Louis Kahn, he founded the short-lived Architectural Research Group (ARG) in Philadelphia. He was a partner in the firms of Carswell, Berninger & Bower (ca. 1933-1935), Berninger & Bower (1935-1945) and Berninger, Haag & d'Entremont (1946)

Born May 31, 1898 in Schiltigheim,Alsace (at the time part of Germany, soon to be part of France again), Berninger attended high school in Darmstadt, Germany, then went on to be educated in Paris, France, first at a preparatory school, then college, finally graduating from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufacturers.

Upon coming to America, Berninger worked for Zantzinger, Borie and Medery, Architects of Philadelphia from 1925 to 1932. During this time he served as job captain for their design project of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, a project that cost around $1,250,000.

With Louis Kahn, who was also an employee of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, he formed the Architectural Research Group in Philadelphia "for the group study of Housing and Slum Clearance." During the whole of the ARG's brief existence, 1932 to 1935, Berninger acted as its president.

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