Team
Benjamin D. Kracauer, AIA brings extensive building experience to Archimuse. Constructed Archimuse projects headed by Mr. Kracauer include The Equitable Gallery, the Mary Ryan Gallery, and the Alex Gallery in New York City; the Used Book Café, three thrift shops and a health-care facility for Housing Works, Inc., a New York City based charitable organization; the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California; and Sotheby’s Exhibition Furniture and Property Storage in New York City. For an office complex in Montreal, Canada, Mr. Kracauer has overseen the renovation of its public spaces, including selecting and installing sculpture and painting within an urban and architectural setting. For the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, Mr. Kracauer has crafted a Master Plan redefining this leading regional museum over the past ten years and culminating in the West Wing Addition.
Reuben S. Jackson is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Mr. Jackson has been instrumental in the development of Archimuse’s three dimensional imaging capability. Mr. Jackson is a skilled and experienced project manager and construction administrator. Built museum projects include the Stevens Smith Historic Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the Philips Museum at Franklin & Marshall College; the Oakes Museum of Natural History at Messiah College; multiple phases of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, and the 500 seat Yonkers Amphitheater completed in 2012.
Internships
Archimuse emphasizes the importance of real-world experiences in the course of studying architecture. Interns assist in all aspects of architectural design and construction. Paid internships are potentially available throughout the year and duration is dependent upon the intern’s academic and schedule requirements. Internships are open to students of architecture at all levels.
Please email cover letter, resumé and portfolio to bdk@archimuse.us
Past Interns
Location
The Bennett Building
Arthur D. Gilman, 1872-73
Addition, James M. Farnsworth, 1890-92 and 1894
Designated 1995
The Bennett Building, with three fully designed, ten-story cast-iron facades, is thought to be the tallest cast-iron building ever erected. It was built in three campaigns, beginning in 1872 when New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett, Jr., commissioned a seven-story French Second Empire building that would be rented for stores and offices. In 1892–93, the original mansard roof was removed and four stories were added in a design that replicated the original castings. Architect James Farnsworth returned in 1894, adding a 25-foot-wide section on Ann Street that is also indistinguishable from the original.
In Memoriam
Charles B. Froom (1942–2015) was the Archimuse principal-in-charge of Grant and Lee in War and Peace. His accomplishments include design, installation and production management for the inauguration of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1975); the design of the building renovation and installation of Treasures of Tutankhamen for the Agyptisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (1972); numerous major installations at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; installations at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the renovation and installation of the Luxor Museum, Egypt (1975). Mr. Froom was consultant and designer at the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, and numerous other cultural institutions.
