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William Mac Donald
chAir of grAduAte Architecture And
urbAn design
M.Sc. Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia
University; B. Arch., Syracuse University; attended the
Architectural Association in London; director, KOL/
MAC, LLC, Architecture + Design, co-founded with
Sulan Kolatan; has taught as professor, distinguished
visiting professor, or visiting chair at the University
of Virginia (as acting chair); Columbia University;
the University of Pennsylvania; Southern California
Institute for Architecture; The Ohio State University;
City University of New York; University of California,
Berkley; and Pratt Institute; academic and professional
honors and awards include the “40 under 40” award,
Progressive Architecture awards, AIA design awards;
represented the U.S. in the U.S. national pavilion and
for the international segment of the International
Architecture Bienniale in Venice; via KOL/MAC,
has collaborated with various leading companies,
including DuPont, AI Implant of Biotech Industries,
Alias, Merck Chemicals, Autodesk, C-TEK, ARUP AGU,
DitlevFilms, Inc.; exhibited at MoMA, SFMoMA, Cooper-
Hewitt National Design Museum, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Barbican Art Gallery, Architekturmuseum,
Mori Contemporary Art Museum, 1st International
Architecture Biennial in Beijing, VITRA, Yale University,
and the FRAC; publications include The New York Times;
The Washington Post, CNN, Phaidon Press, Rizzoli, GA
Houses, AD Magazine, Architectural Digest, ACTAR,
Domus, Lotus International, Architectural Record; co-
author, Lubricuous Architectures with Kari Andersen;
a comprehensive monograph titled KOL/MAC WORK
BOOK is currently in preparation for publication.
Radhi Majmuder
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Economics, Columbia University; M.S., Civil
Engineering, Columbia University; M.B.A., Global
Executive, London Business School; vice president of
an internationally recognized and innovative structural
engineering firm in charge of U.S. and Caribbean
operations from its office in New York; licensed
professional engineer with over 18 years of experience;
has worked for various design consultancies that
specialize in the design of buildings, bridges, marine
and coastal works, and industrial and environmental
structures; has directed many projects from the
conceptual planning and proposal stages through the
entire design, engineering, and construction cycle,
including staffing and facilities startup.Rosalinda Malibiran
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
B. Arch. Design, University of Florida; M. Arch., Columbia
University; a visual effects artist working for Blue Sky
Studios, who has worked on feature films such as Rio,
IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who,
IceAge: The MeltDown, and Robots.Elliott Maltby
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
B.A., Philosophy, Kenyon College; Master of Landscape
Architecture, University of California-Berkeley;
interests include how art and design contribute to the
success of the urban experiment; current
research focuses on temporal and situational spatiality;
partner, thread collective, a multidisciplinary design
firm that explores the seams between building, art, and
landscape; a broadly defined notion of sustainability,
existing site characteristics, and sensory experience
further inform the firm’s design process; has worked for
five years with Mary Miss, one of the most influential
artists in the public realm.Benjamin Martinson
Visiting instructor
Bachelor of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder; M.
Arch., Pratt Institute; worked for the New York office of
Buro Happold as an intern; spent two years working for
KOL/MAC, LLC, a digital design practice based in New
York and Istanbul; currently is working on starting his
own design firm with small projects in Portland, Oregon,
and Boulder, Colorado.Brian McGrath
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
M. Arch., Princeton University; B. Arch., Syracuse
University; founding member, PathArchitecture, an
interdisciplinary studio working on projects at various
scales in built and media environments; his work has
been exhibited widely and his book, Transparent Cities
(Sites/Lumen, 1994), has been reformatted into an
interactive CD-ROM.Signe Nielsen
Adjunct Professor
B.A., Smith College; B.S.L.A., City College School of
Architecture; B.S., Pratt Institute; fellow, American
Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Mathews
Nielsen Landscape Architects PC since 1979; vice
president, N.Y.C. Public Design Commission; recipient
of more than two dozen national design awards;
co-author of three books—High Performance
Infrastructure Guidelines; Cool and Green Roof; and
Sustainable Site Design—and author of Sky Gardens.Gregory Okshteyn, Assoc. AIA
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B. Arch., Pratt Institute; M.S. Advanced Architectural
Design; GSAP Columbia University; founder and
president, Studios GO, Inc., a tight-knit group of young,
highly trained designers and architects who place
innovative fabrication techniques in the service of
contemporary design processes with close attention to
function and social interaction; awards include VM+SD
2007 “Renovation of the Year” and 2000 Grand Prize:
U.S.A. Institute’s International Design Competition:
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, N.Y.Philip Parker
AssistAnt chAir of grAduAte Architecture
And urbAn design, Adjunct AssociAte
Professor
B. Design in Architecture, University of Florida; M. Arch.,
Yale University; principal, Phillip Parker Architects, a
practice that spans scales from furniture and building
components to urban parks; his projects on program,
matter, city, and texts have been exhibited, published,
and reside in the permanent collection of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; he has lectured on
architecture and media and taught design studios and
media theory practice at a number of schools, including
Columbia University GSAPP, AS COORDINATOR OF
CORE VISUAL STUDIES; Princeton University; The Ohio
State University; and RISD.Chris Perry
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Philosophy, Colgate University; M. Arch., Columbia
University.