Professor Wines received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union in 1990. Professor Wines currently teaches ARCH 225, Advanced Topics Seminar: Architects, Society, and Housing, which examines the impact of the current global housing crisis. She has previously taught ARCH 111, Architectonics, and ARCH 131, Design III. With Azin Valy, Wines is a founding principal of I-Beam Design, a practice that celebrates the conceptual and experiential potential that chance brings to architecture. Inspired by the volatile and magical qualities of space as a fluid medium, they design flexible matrixes that evolve according to changing environmental conditions and inhabitants’ desires. This expansive approach leads to dynamic, playful solutions to architectural problems.

The firm has received numerous awards, most notably, first prize in the International Open Competition for the redesign of Lt. Petrosino Park in Lower Manhattan and an honorable mention for their solution to Transitional Refugee Housing. A full-scale prototype of a refugee house was featured in the Casa Per Tutti exhibition at the Architecture Triennale in 2008. I-Beam Design's recently completed projects include the Milne/Ojito Residence and Macao Trading Company, both in New York City. Professor Wines continues to work on a variety of architecture, interior design, and fixture design projects and has been the NY correspondent for Domus Magazine.

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