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Yann Weymouth is a St. Petersburg, Florida based architecct and the designer of the Salvador Dali Museum. He designed expansions and renovations of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota and the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts Hazel Hough Wing. He designed the expansion and renovations to the John and Mable Ringling Museum and Cultural Complex in Sarasota, FL, and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida. From early 2001 to 2013, Weymouth served as Senior Vice President and Design Director, and was on the worldwide Design Board for Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HOK). Weymouth led HOK’s design for over 20 projects, including courthouses, interdisciplinary science and educational buildings, laboratories, mixed-use and residential complexes. Weymouth previously worked for Arup, SOM and Arquitectonica.

Education and Early Career
After graduating from Harvard in 1963 and MIT in 1966, Yann Weymouth served early in his career as Chief of Design for I.M. Pei on the National Gallery of Art East Wing, Washington, D.C and as Chief of Design for I.M. Pei on the Grand Louvre Project, Paris, France. In 1989, the year the Grand Louvre Pyramid opened, Engineering News Record named Weymouth one of their “Men of the Year”. French President Francois Mitterrand honored Weymouth for his role, awarding him the “Chevalier” (Knight) of the “Ordre National du Mérite”. Weymouth was elevated to “Officier” (Officer) in 2012.

Works with HOK
From early 2001 to 2013 Weymouth served as Senior Vice President, Design Director, and worldwide Design Board member for HOK Architects.

Representative Projects with HOK

 * Salvador Dali Museum, Florida.
 * Design Director and lead designer for HOK for 66,000 SF $35 M Mission Critical Category-5 Hurricane-resistant new waterfront museum / café / shop / auditorium / library / administration / offices / art preservation and storage. Unique design innovations include free-form geodesic triangulated steel and glass structure (first use of this technology in North America), 1062 panes of glass no two of which are the same, reinforced 18” thick exposed cast-in-place waterproof concrete walls, black plaster light cannons that funnel daylight onto seven of the masterwork paintings, helical spiral reinforced concrete staircase soaring 60’ into the air. Project designed in Revit, BIM software, fast-tracked with CM.


 * Winner 2009 NOVUM Design Excellence Award; AIA (Tampa) 2010 Merit Award, Distinctive Detail; AIA (Tampa) 2010 People’s Choice Award; 2010 Glass Magazine Most Innovative Protective Glazing Project; 2011 AIA Florida People’s Choice as Best museum in Florida in 100 years. Named one of the top 10 places to see before you die by AOL Travel; chosen by ABC News as one of the World’s Most Exciting Museums.


 * St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts Hazel Hough Wing, St. Petersburg, FL


 * Design Director and lead designer for HOK for 39,000 SF $21 M New north wing galleries, library, offices, meeting rooms, and glass conservatory entrance/ cafe/kitchen/museum store addition to existing historic building - opened 2007


 * John and Mable Ringling Museum and Cultural Complex, Sarasota, FL


 * Design Director and lead designer for HOK for 130,000 SF $44 M Masterplan Renovation and expansion of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota


 * Expanded park with two new lakes, doubling museum in size; three new modern buildings: visitors center/restaurant/museum store / restored Asolo Theater, new administration/research offices/library facility, Searing Wing for Temporary Exhibitions and new Tibbal’s Learning Center interiors - 160,000 SF, $42.5 M construction cost.


 * Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL


 * Design Director and lead designer for HOK for 46,500 SF $18 M freestanding art museum/cafe/library/administration offices/art preservation and storage/multipurpose rooms/cultural hub for university campus. The building is pierced at its center by a soaring 3-story atrium. Unique design innovations include floating cable-suspended fiberglass parabolic surf-board technology reflecting petals light diffusers in the vaulted gallery ceilings and a floating staircase using ribbon of steel treads cantilevered from a central steel box beam.


 * AIA Florida Honors Award for Design Excellence 2010; Voted Best New Art Museum (New Times); Featured in Taschen’s 2010 publication Architecture NOW! Museums by Phillip Jodidio.


 * University of South Florida Interdisciplinary Science Facility, Tampa


 * The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Experiential Music at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida) Currently under construction with anticipated opening in early 2015, Weymouth’s design for a campus of new buildings for will be the first LEED Platinum structures at the University, using rainwater-harvesting, photovoltaic solar roof panels, a new type of glass which reacts automatically to reduce solar heat gain and a Titanium Dioxide concrete skin which eliminates mold and catalytically reduces air pollution. Phases II and III are planned to include 2 recital halls, a jazz practice hall, a black box experimental studio, music mixing rooms and classrooms.

Louvre Notebooks
Beginning in his university days at MIT, and continuing throughout his career, Weymouth has kept detailed notebooks – a compilation of sketches, research and professional and personal notes. The Louvre notebooks have been exhibited and portions are included in publications, such as I.M. Pei and the Louvre Pyramid by Philip Jodidio (Musee du Louvre and Prestel, 2009). The film “La Bataille de la Pyramide,” directed by Frederic Compain, is based on Weymouth’s notebooks. Yann Weymouth donated his notebooks to Harvard University’s Loeb Library Special Collections, except the notebooks from his work on the East Wing that are in the National Gallery of Art collection.

In 1972 Yann Weymouth founded Redroof Design in New York City. Redroof projects included residential and commercial projects, pioneering high tech lofts, galleries, art and music studios, and published residences in New York, Connecticut, Los Angeles, London, and the Bahamas. In New York, Weymouth designed art galleries Blum Hellman on 57th Street, the Castelli Feigen Corcoran Gallery on Madison Avenue, the Richard Feigen Gallery on East 79th Street, and the Photograph Gallery on Fifth Avenue, and in Paris a project with and for artist Jean Dubuffet. Weymouth also continued to collaborate with I.M. Pei on projects such as the MIT Arts and Media Lab.

In 1992, the American Institute of Architects and American Architectural Foundation exhibited “Yann Weymouth Louvre Notebooks” at The Octagon, Washington, D.C. In 2009, to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Louvre Pyramid, the Musee du Louvre and Prestel co-published the book I.M. Pei and the Louvre Pyramid, by Philip Jodidio, Sketches by Yann Weymouth.

Personal Life
He is the older brother of Tina Weymouth, the bassist for the art-rock band Talking Heads from 1974 to 1991, the great-grandson of Anatole Le Braz.

On January 4, 1988 Yann Weymouth married his second wife Susana nee Pola. She is a graduate of Georgetown University, 1979. They have a son, U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Wells Weymouth (University of Florida ’11, Fulbright Scholar, Medical Student Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences). On April 6, 2013 Wells married Rachel nee Ludlow (University of Florida ’11) in St. Petersburg, Florida. Yann Weymouth was previously married to Lally Weymouth, a daughter of Katharine Graham, a publisher of the Washington Post. They divorced in 1972, and had two children:
 * Katharine Weymouth, publisher for the Washington Post
 * Pamela Alma Weymouth, writer for Huffington Post