His colleague in this association, Peter Eisenman, noted Guotmi's adherence to the ideas of youth: he did not succumb to the influence of postmodernism and deconstructivism, did not get carried away by the limitless possibilities of shaping CAD, but continued to develop Le Corbusier's line of modernism, enriching it with new solutions.
Guotmi was especially fond of working on projects for private houses, working closely with the client and modifying the project depending on his wishes.
Fame came to him with the project of a house for parents in Amagansett, New York (1967): the architect himself perceived this construction of laconic, almost sharp geometric forms as a sculpture alienated from the natural landscape. In the same building, Guotmi's love for spectacular materials in the interior was manifested - wood, marble, non-ferrous metal. The 1983 East Hampton, NY, Villa François de Menil (a filmmaker, producer and art collector who, after interacting with Guotmi while working on this project, received an architectural education and a successful practice), built in 1983 in East Hampton, New York, marked a new milestone in the work of the architect: this large building with extensive planes of glazing is open to the surrounding landscape; it is distinguished by a complex layout and composition of volumes.
Guotmi's adherence to restrained forms, combined with his use of spectacular materials in the design of interiors, attracted representatives of the American beau monde to him: the first project of his workshop, opened in 1968 with Richard Siegel, was Faye Dunaway's apartment in Manhattan. For Steven Spielberg, the architect designed an apartment in New York and a country residence in East Hampton.
But Guotmi's creativity is far from being limited to residential projects: among his works there are many museums - for example, the American Museum of the Moving Image (1988) and the Museum of Jewish Children (2004) in New York - and public buildings, among which is the skyscraper of the US Mission to the UN, which is currently under construction. in Manhattan.
A special place is occupied by the buildings of Charles Gwatmey, complementing the existing - often historical - structures. These are the non-classical Wigg Hall at Princeton University, which he reconstructed after a catastrophic fire (1975), and the 10-story new building of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1992), and the reconstruction and expansion in 2008 of the Yale University arts building, built in 1963 by Paul Rudolph.
