NEW YORK - PARIS
FACULTY
Christian Biecher
Christian Biecher received his degree in 1988 from the LıEcole dıArchitecture de Paris-Belleville. During the years 1985 to 1992 he worked for Barnard Tschumi in both Paris and New York. In 1990 he opened his own firm and has received numerous commisions. In 1993 he won the French Young Architects Prize. He has been teaching ³Design Studio² in the Paris term of the Shape of Two Cities Program since 1989.
Claude Bouchard
Claude Bouchard is a native Canadian who has studied interior and architectural design and design and has been living and working in Paris for six years. As an artist, much of his time is spent exploring techniques in ceramic glass and metal work. Claude has recently designed a collection of office objects in leather and wood for Hermes and is currently working on prototypes of a table service for Les Faienceries de Gien scheduled for completion in September 1997. Claudeıs current interests include exploration into the scale of the human hand as well as the scale of the object of everyday life. He is preparing an exhibition of ceramics made in the tradition of cloisened enamels on porcelain of Longwy. These pieces resulted from a development of tools which allow for the intended three-dimensional refinement together in the gesture and spontaneity of the drawing of pen on paper.
Karla Britton
Karla Cavarra Britton, co-director in Paris of the New York/Paris Program, received her BA in Intellectual History from the University of Colorado and an MA in English Literature from Columbia University. She is currently completing her PhD in Architectural History at Harvard University, with a special area of interest in twentieth century French architecture and culture. Her dissertation topic is A Semblance of Permanence: The Architecture of Auguste Perret, relating his theory and practice to the poetics of Paul Valery. In the New York/Paris program she currently teaches the ³History of the European City.² Her work is particularly oriented toward understanding the practice of architecture and relating its intellectual potential to students interested in design.
Ann Buttenwieser
Ann Buttenwieser is an Urban Planner whose professional life has been spent working in the public arena. She is currently a consultant to a Business Improvement District helping to redesign and rebuild the streetscape of lower Manhattan. She is also the author of a book on the history of Manhattanıs waterfront and President of the Parks Council, the cityıs oldest parks advocacy organization.
Andrew Dolkart
Andrew Dolkart is an architectural historian and preservationist with a degree from the Historic Preservation Program at the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has worked extensively on issues involving the architecture and development of New York City. After working several years at the New York CIty Landmarks Preservation Commission, Andrew established his own firm working with preservation organizations, community groups, architecture and planning firms, city agencies and others involved with urban issues. He has curated several exhibitions on New Yorkıs architecture and has written extensively on the city. Recent works have included the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissionıs Guide to New York Cityıs Landmarks (1992; expanded edition to be published 1997); walking tour guides to the Upper East Side (1995) and Harlem (1997); and a major work, Morningside Heights: Architecture and Development on the Acropolis of New York, to be published by Columbia University Press in 1998. He has been teaching in the Shape of Two Cities program since its inception.
Alain Salomon
Alain Salomon was born in New York in 1942. He moved to Paris with his parents as a child and has sinces studied at the Lycee Janson de Sailly and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He returned to New York and received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1968 and his Master of Architecture degree in 1975, both from Columbia Universityıs School of Architecture. In 1970 the organization that he co-founded, Urban Deadline Inc., received the New-York Citizenıs Union Albert S. Bard Award for Design Excellence and the New Yorkıs Park Council Certificate of Commendation. After working in various jobs in both the architecture and business fields, he established his own office in 1988. Several of his projects have been published in French and US architectural magazines. In 1991, in a partnership with Polshek and Partners Architects, he won the competition for the Ministry of Public works headquarters in Chambery, which was completed in 1995 and received and AIA New York State Design Citation. Mr. Salomon has been active in the teaching of architecture since 1983, first at the University of Paris VIII, and since 1988, as a member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation New York- Paris program.
Danielle Smoller
Danielle Smoller, co-director in New York of the Shape of Two Cities Program, received her MArch from Columbia University. She has taught beginning through advanced design courses in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation since 1991, and has co-taught ³Environments and Enclosures II², a required graduate school building technology course focusing on environmentally responsible building within the NYC context, since 1992. She is principle of the DS Design Studio.
Carol Willis
Carol Willis is currently director and curator of The Skyscraper Museum in lower Manhattan. She recieved a BA from Boston University and a MA through Columbia Universityıs Dept. of Art History and Archeology as well as a M.Phil. She currenty completing her PhD. She recieved a NEA grant in 1993 and has numerous publications, including the much praised ³Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago.² She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia Universityıs Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation since the fall of 1989.
Gwendolyn Wright
Gwendolyn Wright received a BA from New York University and a MArch from the University of California- Berkeley. From 1988 to 1992 she served as director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. She has received numerous fellowships and has many articles, essays, and books published. She has been a professor at Columbia University since 1983.
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