PAUL SEGAL, FAIA
offering services in architecture and design
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010- present Paul Segal FAIA – independent design consultant to architecture firms including Gensler, Tesoro Architects, TEK and Michelli + Wyetzner
1971-2010 Paul Segal Associates Architects LLP – founding and senior partner, in charge of hundreds of projects, including 17 which received AIA Design Awards. Project types included housing, offices, schools, universities, museums and restaurants. Projects were published in The New York Times, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Architecture and Urbanism (Tokyo), Interior Design, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, House and Garden, Casa Vogue (Milan), and Gala (Munich). Offices in NYC and Seattle WA.
1977-1985 Formica Corporation – consultant on new applications and product development, created Color-Core, Color Grid and Design Concepts
1969-1971 TAMS Engineers and Architects- Designer
1968 Summer Gruzen and Partners, Architects – Designer
1966 & 1967 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Architects – Designer
OTHER EXPERIENCE
1995- present Greater New York Mutual Insurance Companies – Director, First Vice President
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1971 Brooklyn Friends School- teacher- developed and taught a Ford Foundation/Educational Facilities Laboratory funded high school course in which the students designed, built and evaluated an unused space to be a student lounge/seminar space. Recipient of AIA Educational Award.
1986-present Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation- Adjunct Professor and Director of Practice, teaching “Professional Practice”
2008- present Pratt Institute Graduate Architecture Urban Design – Adjunct Professor, teaching “Professional Practice”
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS
2012 American Institute of Architects New York State – Fellows Award for advancing the philosophy of mentorship within the profession
1986-present American Institute of Architects College of Fellows – member
2002-2004 New York Foundation for Architecture (now the Center for Architecture) – President
1985-1986 American Institute of Architects/New York Chapter – President
1982-1989 Mayor’s Theater Advisory Council – member; assisted in writing new zoning for Times Square and preserving historic Broadway theaters
1992-1996 Preservation League of New York State – Vice Chair
Guest Critic: Columbia University, Princeton University, The Cooper Union, NJ Institute of Technology, University of Washington
Lectures: the opening of the Atlanta City Hall, The University of Washington (Seattle), Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, and Pratt Institute
PUBLICATIONS
By Paul Segal: Professional Practice: A Guide to Turning Designs into Buildings, a textbook for professional practice courses, published by W.W.Norton, 2006
About Paul Segal Associates: hundreds of articles in magazines, newspapers and books
TELEVISION
Appearances on CNN, NBC’s Today Show, PBS (Channel 13), and NY News Channel 1
EDUCATION
1966 Princeton University, AB, major: Architecture
1969 Princeton University, School of Architecture MFA in Architecture, as University Fellow and University Scholar
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed Architect in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington and Vermont
NCARB certified