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persistence of the designer in contemporary culture;
publications include GA Houses, New York Times
Magazine, and Architectural Record; registered
architect in New York State.
Carisima Koenig
Visiting instructor
B.A., Drake University; M. Arch., Iowa State University;
senior associate and LEED-accredited professional
practicing architecture at EYP Architects & Engineers;
specializes in the renovation of modernist icons; her
research interests include the evolving relationships
between architecture, urbanism, and security from
modernism to contemporary practices; her work also
addresses gender, diversity, and politics in architecture.
Mehmet Ferda Kolatan
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Arch. Dipl. (with distinction), RWTH
Aachen; founded SU11 architecture+design with Erich
Schoenenberger as an experimental architecture
practice in New York City; firm has since received
national and international acclaim and has been
published widely; awards include Lucille Smyser
Lowenfish Memorial Prize and the Honor Award for
Excellence in Design, Columbia University.
Sulan Kolatan
Adjunct Professor
Diploma, Technische Hochschule Aachen Universitat;
M.S., Architecture and Building Design, Columbia
University; founded KOL/MAC Studio along with
William MacDonald, in New York City in 1988. Kolatan
and MacDonald have taught architecture as visiting
professors at Barnard College, Ohio State University,
the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of
Design, University of Virginia, The Institute of Advanced
Architectural Studies in Basel, Switzerland, and Venice,
Italy, and Columbia University. The Kolatan/Mac Donald
Studio primarily works with strangely shaped structures,
of housing and apartment blocks. Dubbed “Vertical
Urbanism,” the apartment structures are divided into
pods that structurally conform to the addition and
removal of other pods.
Craig Konyk
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B. Arch., Catholic University; M. Arch., University of
Virginia; principal, Konyk Architecture.David Christopher Kroner
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.S., Architecture Design, University of Virginia; M. Arch.,
Columbia; senior designer at Dean/Wolf Architects
in New York City; teaches courses in a digital design
sequence, focusing on fundamental and advanced
techniques in modeling, simulation, visualization,
analysis, scripting, and fabrication; has taught at
Columbia University GSAPP, the City College of New
York, the University of Virginia, and at the National
Building Museum in Washington, D.C.Sameer Kumar
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B. Arch., CEPT, Ahmedabad; M. Arch., University of
Pennsylvania; LEED-accredited professional; currently
at KPF Associates, working on projects in Hong Kong,
China, and India; previously worked for Heintges
as building envelope consultant with Studio Daniel
Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava, Polshek Partnership,
and other New York practices; worked for FTL Design
Engineering Studio and specialized in long-span,
lightweight, and deployable structures; is a visiting critic
at Columbia and Parsons.Franklin Lee
Visiting instructor
Dipl. and R.I.B.A Part 2, Architectural Association,
London; M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia;
principal and cofounder, SUBdV in London with Anne
Save de Beaurecueil.Thomas Leeser
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
Dipl. Ing. Architect; founder and principal, Leeser
Architecture, an internationally acclaimed studio,
known as a pioneer in design that specializes
in the inclusion of new media and digital technologies
in architecture.Teresa Llorente
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.E., Cooper Union; M.S., Columbia University; licensed
professional engineer in New York State.Carla Leitao
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Architecture School of Lisbon;
architect (licensed in Europe), designer, and writer;
co-founder, AUM Studio (architecture and multimedia)
and Umasideia (architecture and engineering) in
Lisbon; projects include “Visibility” (UIA Celebration of
Cities competition, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal); “Suture,”
a multimedia installation; MAK Vertical Garden
(competition by invitation, 2006); awards include the
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, 2005.John Lobell
Professor
B. Arch., M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania; interests
include architecture, cultural theory, consciousness,
Buddhism, information theory, and generative
genomics; recipient of several grants, including one
from the Graham Foundation; author of numerous
articles and several books, including Between Silence
and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
(Shambhala, 2008); consults on metal fabrication with
Milgo/Bufkin; director of research, Timeship.Peter Macapia
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.T.S., Harvard
University; M.A., Columbia University; M.Phil., Columbia
University; Ph.D., Columbia University; his design
focuses on problems of computation, mathematics,
the geometry and topology of matter/energy relations,
and problems of urban density; publications include
Log, Monitor, Spread, and The Cambridge Journal
of Architecture; recipient of grants for research in
sustainability and design from Columbia University and
Pratt Institute; has taught and lectured internationally
in New York (Columbia and Pratt), Los Angeles
(SCI-Arc), Paris (ESA, Malaquais), Mexico City (UNAM),
and Tokyo (TUS).