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Elsa Gidoni (Elsa Mandelstamm) was born on 12 March, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, is a German-American architect (1901–1978). Discover Elsa Gidoni's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Elsa Mandelstamm
Occupation N/A
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 12 March 1901
Birthday 12 March
Birthplace Riga, Latvia
Date of death 19 April, 1978
Died Place Washington, D.C.
Nationality Latvia

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Her husband is Alexander Gidoni, Alexis L. Gluckmann

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Elsa Gidoni Net Worth

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1901

Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni (March 12, 1901 – April 19, 1978) was a German-American architect and interior designer.

Gidoni was born Elsa Mandelstamm in Riga, Latvia, into the Lithuanian-Jewish family.

Her father Fayvush (Pavel) Mandelstamm was a physician.

1916

She studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1916 to 1917 and at the Technical University in Berlin in the mid-1920s.

1929

She then operated her own interior design firm from 1929 to 1933.

1933

In 1933, once Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, sweeping anti-Jewish legislation was passed, with the result that Jews unable to practice their profession.

1938

Gidoni left Berlin and settled in Tel Aviv where she practiced as an architect until 1938.

There, she designed an economics school and worked on various projects such as planning the Swedish Pavilion at the Levant-Fair and the Café Galina.

Much of Gidoni's work was of the International Style, an architecture style that became popular after World War I and is characterized by the use of industrial materials, lack of color, and flat surfaces.

In 1938, she left Tel-Aviv due to increasing conflict within the political landscape, and moved to New York where she worked as an interior designer for Fellheimer & Wagner before eventually finding work as a project designer at the architectural firm of Kahn & Jacobs.

1943

She became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1943.

1947

With Kahn & Jacobs she was the lead architect on several significant commissions including the Universal Pictures Building at 445 Park Avenue in Manhattan, completed in 1947.

Praising its use of light and other structural features, architectural historian and critic, Lewis Mumford, called the 445 Park Avenue office building "technical milestone."

The Britannica Book of the Year 1947 included the building as among the five top architectural achievements of the year.

The four other notable structures cited were designed, respectively, by Oscar Niemeyer, Alvar Aalto, Buckminster Fuller, and Le Corbusier.

1960

In 1960, she was one of 260 women in the AIA and only one of 12 working in New York.

Her older sister was violinist Margarita Mandelstamm Selinsky.

Her first husband was the art critic and writer Alexander Gidoni.

She later married Alexis L. Gluckmann, an engineer.

1978

In April 1978, she died at the age of 77 at her home in Washington, D.C.