Karen Bausman + Associates has won wide recognition as
one of the leading voices in the field of architecture for our ability
to integrate architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design.
In 2010 the City of New York awarded our firm a design excellence
contract as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ambitious effort to bring
the
best ideas and technology architects have to offer to city-financed
projects,
especially in the quickly evolving area of sustainable design at
environmentally sensitive waterfront sites where new recreational and
cultural structures
are being planned. We have
completed the design of two new DPR buildings for Ferry Point Park, the
Bronx. The 222-acre eco park, once a municipal
landfill, is one of the largest underdeveloped sites along New York
City’s
waterfront.
The breadth of our firm's experience spans building
design projects to site-specific installations, including the
Progressive Architecture Award-winning Performance Theater for Warner Bros. Los Angeles and
the International Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, a joint venture
with HOK San Francisco for a new educational facility and campus in
Napa Valley. Current projects include Flower Tower, a 16-story residential building of
beauty, technology and ecological soundness for Long Island City, New
York, and Untitled,
a pavilion for contemporary art.
PRINCIPAL AND LEAD DESIGNER
KAREN BAUSMAN, AIA, is responsible for the design excellence of
all projects undertaken by her firm and collaborates directly with
clients. She has successfully completed projects at such notable New
York City landmark sites as World Financial Center, Rockefeller Center,
and Ladies Mile, and for private clients that include Warner Bros.
Records, Elektra Entertainment Group, and Newmark Knight Frank.
Karen's indelible mark on contemporary architecture has
been widely acknowledged. In 1994 she was awarded the Rome Prize at a
White House ceremony. Her work has won acclaim by the world's most
prominent media including The New York Times, The New
York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Progressive
Architecture, and A+U: Architecture and Urbanism
(Japan), which published a 60-page monograph of her work.
Her drawings, models and installations serve as
important media for expanding her concepts and have been exhibited
extensively in museums, art galleries and universities from the United
States to Europe to Asia, including the Gund Gallery at Harvard
University, Artists Space, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and
Houghton Gallery in New York, the List Visual Arts Center of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, and at the Galleria Arts + Architettura Moderna in Rome,
Italy.
In addition to her professional responsibilities, and
since receiving her professional degree in architecture from The Cooper
Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York in 1982, Karen
has made substantial contributions to architectural education.
She has held the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Graduate School of Design,
Harvard University, and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of
Architecture, Yale University. She was a faculty member of Columbia
University's School of Architecture's Advanced Architectural Design
Studio (AAD) from 1990 to 2004. Her design research into complex
adaptive systems in nature is featured in INDEX Architecture, a
Columbia GSAPP book published by MIT Press.
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