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Chuck Hoberman was born on 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, is an American architect (born 1956). Discover Chuck Hoberman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Occupation Artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys
Age 68 years old
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Born 1956
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Birthplace Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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1956

Chuck Hoberman (born 1956) is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere.

Hoberman's father was an architect, and his mother, Mary Ann Hoberman, was a children's book author.

He wanted to be an artist from an early age, doing drawing and painting, and eventually taking courses at Cooper Union in New York City.

1979

He studied liberal arts at Brown University, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in sculpture from Cooper Union in 1979, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

At some point during his education, he was asked to produce a sculpture that could move.

He made a work that unrolled colored plastic sheets on the floor, and he became fascinated with kinetic art.

Finishing his formal education, he then went to work for a robotics engineering firm, where he added computer modeling (CAD-CAM) to his skills.

After six years, he left to pursue his artistic and technical interests full-time.

The two largest Hoberman spheres are motorized, 5.5–6 m in diameter, and suspended above open rooms in science centers.

One is displayed in the AHHAA Science Center in Tartu, Estonia, and the second is displayed in Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

1990

In 1990, he formed Hoberman Associates.

1994

In 1994, the Museum of Modern Art added the Hoberman sphere into its permanent collection.

1995

In 1995, he co-founded Hoberman Designs with his wife and business partner, Carolyn Hoberman.

Hoberman has been granted numerous US and foreign patents.

These include:

1997

Hoberman has designed other folding architectural structures, such as the Expanding Hypar (1997) at the California Museum of Science and Industry; the Hoberman Arch, the centerpiece of the medals plaza for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics; and a retractable dome featured at the World's Fair 2000 in Hanover, Germany.

His artwork has been exhibited at international museums including the New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Mycal Otaru Bay in Hokkaidō, Japan.

Hoberman has installed permanent building facades that transform in transparency at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University.

Hoberman won the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design in 1997 and was a finalist for the 2000 Smithsonian National Design Award.

2002

He designed the Hoberman Arch as a centerpiece of Salt Lake City during the 2002 Olympics.

It was later moved to Olympic Cauldron Park and then to the Salt Lake City airport.

2009

He shared the LDI2009 Award for Excellence in Video Design and Technology for the U2360 expanding video screen.

2011

In July 2011, the rock band U2 concluded a nearly three-year world-wide concert tour (called "360°") that featured Hoberman's expanding video screen, a 3800 sqft elliptical display that would grow into a seven-story cone.

The display weighed 120,000 lbs, and incorporated 888 LED screens displaying a total of 500,000 pixels.

The complex apparatus was successfully transported and reassembled for 110 concerts during that time.

In addition to toys such as the Hoberman sphere, Hoberman created the "Brain Twist", a hard plastic tetrahedron that folds, stellates, and becomes self-dual while having a component that rotates similarly to a Rubik's Cube.

Likewise, Hoberman's "Pocket Flight Ring" is a folding, throwable toy resembling a chakram.

Hoberman has also created the Expandagon Construction System, a kind of construction toy, and the Switch Pitch, a toy which turns itself inside out when tossed into the air, thus appearing to change colors.

2016

In 2016, he was appointed the Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Design Engineering at Harvard University.

2018

In 2018, he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology.