James Carpenter

Professional Experience

James Carpenter Design Associates, Inc., New York
Director

Carpenter-Norris Consulting, Inc., New York
Director

Carpenter/Lowings Architecture & Design, Ltd., London
Director

Teaching

University of Stuttgart, Light Weight Structures Institute, Germany
Visiting Professor

Harvard University, Massachusetts
Eliot Noyes Professorship,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts
Materials Science,

Columbia University, New York
Adjunct Professor,

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Professor, Structures,

Royal College of Art, London,
Associate Lecturer,

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,
Associate Professor,

University of California, Berkeley,
Sculpture Instructor,

Education

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
BFA, Sculpture,

Membership

American Institute of Architects [AIA], Associate Member

American Society of Civil Engineers [ASCE], Affiliate Member

Illuminating Engineering Society of North America [IESNA]

International Society for Glass Technology

International Solar Energy Society [ISES]

International Assiciation for Bridge and Srtuctural Engineering [IABSE]

Buckminster Fuller Institute, Board of Trustees

Rhode Island School of Design [RISD], Board of Trustees

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat [CTBUH]

Institute of Urban Design

Awards

AIA Architectural Merit Award
7 World Trade Center [with Skidmore Owings & Merrill], New York, NY

MASterworks Best New Building Award
7 World Trade Center [with Skidmore Owings & Merrill], New York, NY

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Excellence in Structural Engineering
Award for the Schubert Club Band Shell, [NCSEA]

Engineering Awards of Excellence
National Award Winner for the Schubert Club Band Shell, [AISC]

Solar Light Pipe, IES Illuminating Engineering Society, First Place

Benedictus Award, Phoenix Lenc Ceiling

National Environment Design Award
presented by the Smithsonian Institution and The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

American Institute of Architects, New York, special Citation

Olympics, IES Illuminating Engineering Society, First Place

45th PA Awards, Tulane University Center (with Vincent James Associates),
New Orleans, LA

General Services Administration, Lens Ceiling (with Richard Meier),
Phoenix, AZ

Benedictus Award, Citations

41st Annual Progressive Architecture Awards,
Citation- Wabasha Street Bridge

New York State Council of the Arts, Centerway Bridge Design,
Corning, NY

Pilkington Glass Curtain Wall Competition, Honourable Mention,
Chicago, IL

AIA Institute Honors Award, Washington, DC

Glass House Competition, Honourable Mention (with Toshiko Mori),
Tokyo, Japan

New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship, New York

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Loeb Fellowship

American Association of Structural Engineers,
First Place-Specialty Structures

NY Association of Consulting Engineers,
First Place- Building Structural Design

National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Fellowship

Rhode Island School of Design, European Honors Programme

2006

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1998

1996,1998, 2003

1994

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1979

1971