This summer may be the busiest of Andy Klemmer’s life. Two buildings for which his firm, the New York-based Paratus Group, serves as project director—the Pérez Miami Art Museum, by Herzog & de Meuron, and an addition to the Kimbell Museum, in Fort Worth, by Renzo Piano—are racing toward fall openings, turning the New Yorker into a Florida-Texas commuter.
He founded the company in 1997, the year Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao, for which he served as owner’s rep, debuted. Subsequent projects have included SANAA’s Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art as well as a series of museums by Piano, of which the 90,000-square-foot “Piano Pavilion” at the Kimbell is the latest. Along the way, he has won architects over to his management style. “If all clients had such reps, there would be better architecture all over the place,” says Christine Binswanger, the Herzog & de Meuron partner in charge of the Miami project. Klemmer spoke with RECORD by phone from the Kimbell site.
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