Parsons, BFA Interior Design

FACULTY-Interior Design

Danielle Galland- Founder, Danielle Galland Interior Design, Inc. Interior Designer, Kitty Hawks Inc. Projects: high-end residences and executive offices, and two Kips Bay show houses (1998, 2001). Published: Elle Décor, Interior Design, House Beautiful, the NY Times, and Traditional Home. Faculty Member of Parsons School of Design, Acting Director in the interior design program. Membership: NCIDQ Certified Interior Designer. Degree Candidate for the Masters in the Decorative Arts program, Cooper Hewitt. BFA, Interior Design, Parsons School of Design.

Wid Chapman- IIDA, AIA is Adjunct Faculty at Parsons School of Design in
the Department of Architecture Interior Design, and Lighting. He was
chair of the Interior Design Department from 1994 to 2002. Wid Chapman Architects. Their projects range from hotels and
restaurants to new homes and apartments. Projects have been located in New York, Cape Cod, Florida, and as far afield as Pakistan, Korea and Malaysia. Their design for a new line of juice bars, Elixir, won a 2000
I.D. Magazine annual award.

David Ling- Founder, David Ling Architects. Worked previously with Richard Meier and I.M. Pei. Awards: Interiors Magazine's Annual Awards for Best Retail Design (2001), Best Office Design (1995), London's Design Partnership Award for Best Retail Design (2000), ICFF's Best Exhibition Design (2001), London's Grosvenor House Award for Best Exhibition Design (1991). International Press including The New York Times, Wallpaper, Interior Design, Interiors, House and Garden, Elle Décor, Metropolitan Home, Dwell, VM+SD, Interni, Architektur und Wohnen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and Burlington Magazine. Instruction: Parsons School of Design, University of Nuremburg. Design Juries: Interiors Magazine, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Kian Goh- Partner, super-interesting. Architect, Weiss/Manfredi Architects in New York, MVRDV in Rotterdam. Awards: H.I. Feldman Prize and James Gamble Rogers scholarship. M.Arch, Yale University.

Ron Eng- Director, Formactiv Architecture Design Technology P.C. Architect, Rafael Vinoly Architects, Davis Brody Bond. Instruction: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design; Critique: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rhode Island School of Design. BA, M.Arch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Registered Architect in the State of New York.

Jennifer Stearns- Principal, StAPLE. BA, Brown University and London School of Economics. M.Arch, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Barbara Lewandowska- Architect. Associate and Senior Designer, KPK. I.M. Pei and Partners. Instruction: Senior Design Studio at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Technical University of Gdansk. Academic Juries: New Jersey Institute of Technology and The City College of New York. Lecture. Published: Casa Brutus, Architecture, Interior Design, Contract Design. Membership: AIA New York Chapter. Registered Architect in the State of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Johannes Knoops- Fellowships: William Van Alen Memorial Traveling Fellowship, John Dinkeloo Fellowship, Rome Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. Exhibition Design: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Awards: "Progressive Architecture's International Furniture Competitions", Gaetano Pesce, KPF, Architectural League of New York's "Young Architect's Forum Award," Graham Foundation grant, three fellowships to the MacDowell Art Colony, "Unbuilt Award: from the Boston Society of Architects."

Michael Gabellini- Founder and Design Partner, Gabellini Associates. Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Finalist in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Architectural research in Rome. Architect, Kohn Pederson Fox Architects.

Kimberly Sheppard- Design Partner, Gabellini Associates. Projects: over 70 Jil Sander retail projects worldwide, Co-Design Partner, Giorgio Armani Center in Milan, Project Architect, Halkin Hotel and Restaurant in London, Gianni Versace flagships. Nicole Farhi New York flagship. Registered Architect in the State of New York. Membership: American Institute of Architects.

Tim Ventimiglia- Partner, RAA. Architect, Elsa Prochazka. Awards: Silver Metal from the Industrial Designers of America, Top Honor Award from the Society of Environmental and Graphic Design. Instruction: Cornell University, the Haus der Architectur in Graz, Cornell studio in Berlin, Germany. Published: European design magazines and exhibition catalogues. B.Arch, M.Arch, Cornell University.

Douglas Fanning- Architect, Furniture and Industrial Designer, DYAD studio. Instruction: various schools. Published: His designs have been widely published and his work has received both national and international design awards. M.Arch, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture.

Sergio Duran- Founder, S+D Studio in New York. Associate, Architects Ricardo Legorreta, Yoshio Taniguchi and Arata Isozaki. Associate, S+D Studio. Awards: UNESCO Prize for Contemporary Art (1995), Published: MEN'S CLUB, Shinkenchiku, GQ, The Japan Times, Asahi Evening News, Tokyo Journal, Inter ART ACTUEL Quebec, Taiyou (The Sun), PIA, an - an, InterCommunication ICC. Education: Beaux-Arts in Paris, SCI-Arc, University of Tokyo.

Neil Katz- Associate, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Projects: World Trade Center / Freedom Tower, New York, Time Warner Building, New York, Memorial Sloan Kettering Research Center, New York, John F. Kennedy International Airport / Terminal 4, New York, Lotte Super Tower, Seoul, Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel. Research with Haresh Lalvani. Exhibits: Milgo-Bufkin and MoMA. Instruction: Parsons the New School for Design, NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. B.Arch, Pratt Institute.

Guy Geier- Principal, Fox & Fowle Architects, leading the Interiors Studio. Current Projects: headquarters of the Wildlife Conservation Society, expansion of the Julliard School and a new restaurant/entertainment venue in Times Square. Awards, have been published in the major design magazines. Past President of the New York Chapter of the International Interior Design Association. Membership: AIA and other industry associations.

Daniella Ohad-Smith- Instruction: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem, Pratt Institute, Bard College. Curator: Private collections of twentieth-century design and decorative arts. Ph.D. candidate, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture; Dissertation explores design and culture of hotels in 1920s and 1930s Palestine.

Antonio Di Oronzo- Principal, bluarch:::architecture + interiors. Published and exhibited internationally, including Peru, Taiwan, Italy, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Instruction: Assistant Professor of Architecture at City College of New York, School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture; Parsons School of Design, Department of Design and Management. Doctor in Architecture, University of Rome (Italy) "La Sapienza" and Masters, Urban Planning, Post-Graduate degree in Construction Management.

Julie Salles Schaffer- President, Salles Schaffer Architecture. Architect, Bernard Tsumi. Architect, Fox and Fowle Architects, Construction Management, Leher McGovern Bovis. Employee, Bernard Tschumi. Instruction: Design Professor at Pratt Institute. Published: Art in America, Architecture Magazine, Interior Design, Architecture Magazine, Vogue. BS, Interior Designer, Cornell University. M.Arch, Columbia University.

John Szot- Instruction: architecture and digital visualization at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design. Executive Director, Experimental Modern Arts Collective (http://www.xmac.org), Exhibition: Chicago, New York, Portland, and The Netherlands. B.Arch, University of Texas at Austin. MSADD, Columbia University.

Kitty Hawks- Inductee: Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame for outstanding work in the field. Published: House and Garden, Interior Design, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest. Literary agent and design director, Perry Ellis. Membership: Board of the Design Trust for Public Space, Municipal Art Society of New York. BA from Smith College. M.Arch, UCLA.

Wendy Goodman- Interior design journalist. Interior Design Editor, New York Magazine. Contributing Style Editor, Departures. Contributing Editor for Elle Décor. Credits: German Architectural Digest, W, Modern Painter, Harpers Bazaar, Vouge, and House and Garden.

David Bergman- Principal, David Bergman Architect. Founder & Designer, Fire & Water. Awards: Lighting for Tomorrow, Honorable Mentions 2005, Honorable Mention 2003, International Design Resource Awards, Award Winner 2000, Second Place Award 1998. Instruction: Parsons School of Design, Yale University. Memberships: Board of Directors, o2/nyc; Executive Board, DLF/NY; Board of Directors, Furniture New York; Municipal Art Society/Urbanists, LEED Accredited Professional, Registered Architect in the State of New York. BA, Yale University. M.Arch, Princeton University.

Trudy Miller- Principal, clinchdesign. Instruction: Parsons School of Design, California College of the Arts, Department of Architecture, various workshops at high schools through museum programs sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the Museum of Modern Art.