The Cooper Union
School of Architecture
 
 
 
 

PROFESSORSHIPS & CHAIRS

1982–Present

Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Professor of Design, Tenured

2006

University of Toronto
Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architecture

2004–05

University of Edinburgh, Graduate School of Architecture
Simpson Chair

2003 & 1991–95

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Visiting Professor: Options Studio,
Theory and History Lecturer

2001–02

University of Nebraska
Hyde Chair in Architectural Excellence

1998–2000

Technical University of Berlin
Guest Chair Fachbereich 8

Pratt Institute

1997 & 1998

Visiting Professor Graduate Design

1998 & 2002–04

Theory and History Lecturer

1995–96

The Architectural Association
Visiting Scholar, Studio Master of Diploma Unit 8

Yale University, Graduate School of Architecture

1989–90

Visiting Professor, Davenport Studio with Frank Gehry
Collaborative Studio Projects of Graduate Architects and Artists

1979–82

Foundation Design Studio for First and Second Year

1982

Visiting Critic, Davenport Studio with John Hejduk

1977–78

University of Virginia
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Undergraduate and Graduate Design Studio Critic

SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL DESIGN STUDIOS

1997–Present

Bard College & CCA, USA & Canada

1997

Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

1993

Architecture Institute Maastricht, Netherlands

1992

University of Edinburgh, Great Britain

1990

The Architectural Association, Great Britain

1990

RMIT Melbourne, Australia

GRANTS

1992

New York State Council on the Arts

1991

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Architecture

DEGREES

1976–77

Rome Prize in Architecture, The American Academy in Rome

1976

B. Arch., Cooper Union

AWARDS

1989 & 1999

Nominee, Daimler–Chrysler Design Award

1998

Industrial Design Architecture Award

1985

AIA Honor Award, New York Chapter, Honorable mention

1982

Architectural Record Award

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1982–Present

Principal, Diane Lewis Architect
Registered Architect, New York

SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS & INVITED COMPETITIONS

2004–Present

Higgs Carter King Leeds Charter School
San Antonio, TX

2004–Present

Stux Gallery
New York, NY

2002–Present

New York Studio School, Master plan
New York, NY

2001–Present

Cast-iron Building
New York, NY

2000

Clemson Sandhill Campus Competition, Finalist
Columbia, SS

1999

Urban Master Plan, Presidential Palace Precinct, Institute of Cultural Relations Between the People's Republic of China & Taiwan

1999

NYU Law School Washington Mews Houses

1999

House for the 21st Century

1997

House for an Actor
New York, NY

1997

IIT Student Residence Competition

1997

Pratt Institute Architecture Building Competition
New York, NY

1997

Cincinatti Museum of Art Competition

1995

Spot Gallery, Penthouse Art Collection & Library
New York, NY

1990–92

Kunsthalle
New York, NY

1991

Architect's Atelier
New York, NY

1989

Century Paramount Hotel

1987

Condé Nast Traveler, Editorial Boardroom

1986

Skyscraper Law Offices

1986

Factory Domicile Building

1985

Kent Gallery

1984

Gauchos Foundation Basketball Court

1983

Les Tuileries Restaurant
New York, NY

1982

Galerie Claude Bernard

1982

Lescaze House Addition
Washington, DC

PREVIOUS WORK

1978–82

Office of I.M. Pei and Partners
499 Park Avenue Skyscraper: Curtain-wall Designer
Javits Convention Center: Curtain-wall Designer
MIT Center for Arts and Media: Design Team
San Francisco Ferry Building Complex: Senior Designer
Gateway Singapore Towers: Core and Curtain-wall Designer

1976 & 1977–78

Office of Richard Meier and Partners
Mondev Urban Projects: Designer, Project Supervision
Colorado Springs & New Hampshire

LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA

2006

University of Toronto, Canada
Gehry Chair Lecture
Eros and Psyche

Graduate School of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington
Lecture
The City as the Work of Art

Columbia University and The Cooper Union
Tafuri colloquium
Tafuri Seen from New York and Rome from '68 to the Present

Bauhaus International Colloquium, Weimar, Germany
Architecture 1968–Present; The Bauhaus and Cooper Union, The City and the Foundation of Architectural Education

The Arts Symposium for the University of Calgary, Canada
The Art of the Void in the City

2005

University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
Simpson Chair Lecture

2004

University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
Simpson Chair Lecture

2003

Harvard University
Lecture on hieroglyphics of 20th-century syntax

NIAE Conference, Helsinki, Finland
2003 Keynote Speaker
City: Text Intertext Context

2002

UIA Conference, Berlin, Germany
The Sustainable City; The Post-Philanthropic Challenge; New York, Ground Zero, and the Future Derivation of Civic Non-commercial Programs in the Architecture of the City

2001

Architectural League symposium on 9/11
New York, NY
Proposal for Program and Public Referendum on Program for the Site; Rubble, Civic Memory, Advocacy

2000

Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
Performance Architecture symposium
Presented work of Diane Lewis Architect with Will Alsop and Zaha Hadid

Vera List Center of The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
The Future of the Museum
Panel moderated by Ed Rothstein

1999

ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Lecture

The Architectural Association, London, Great Britain
Lecture
Dr Faustus and the City

School of Architecture, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
Lecture

The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Globalism symposium
Moderated By C. Brillembourg

1998

The College Art Association Conference, Toronto, Canada
Walter Benjamin and the City symposium
Moderated By R. Klyne

The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Lecture accompanying exhibition of Victor Hugo drawings
The Man who Laughed; Victor Hugo, Wright, Duchamp

Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibition and symposium
Intimate Space, The House for the 21st Century

Berlin Biennale 98
The Future of Berlin symposium

Akademie der Baukunst, Stuttgart, Germany
Lecture

1997

Virginia Polytechnic
Two lectures within visiting seminar

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union
Series of five lectures
The Divine Comedy and the Renaissance

The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Architalx Series
The Plinth, the Roof, the Wall

The Architectural Association, London, Great Britain
Anniversary Week Symposia
Symposium on the relationship between education and practice
Moderated by Mohsen Mostafavi

School of Architecture, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Lecture
Legends of Place

1996

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Hilla Rebay Lecture
Distance in the Flat: Ideology and Abstraction in 20th-century Architecture
Lecture accompanying exhibition Abstraction in the 20th Century

Graduate School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
The Sex of Architecture symposium
Directors Patricia Conway and Diana Agrest
Dialogue/Response Paper to Kathryn Ingraham

The Architectural Association, London, Great Britain
Lecture

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Lecture
Parting from the Wall

1995

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Lecture
The Plan: Love letter to History

The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
Symposium on Herzog & De Meuron Exhibition

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Symposium: Scharoun and Berlin

1994

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Dialogue between Robin Evans and Diane Lewis
Moderated by Mack Scogin, GSD

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University
Women in Architecture series
Apocalypse

1993

Graduate Program in Architecure, Cranbrook Academy
Lecture

American Academy in Rome, Italy
Anniversary Series Lecture

1992

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lecture

1991

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Lecture
Antigone

School of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
Lecture

1990

The Architectural Association, London, Great Britain
Lecture in conjunction with guest studio
Funded by the Building Institute

1989

Architecture School, Rhode Island School of Design
Lecture

School of Architecture, State University of New York at Buffalo
Seminar with 2 lectures

School of Architecture, University of Cincinnati
Lecture

NIAE Conference
USC, Los Angeles
Symposium on Technology and The City
Moderated by Marc Angelil and Dagmar Richter

1988

Yale Graduate School of Architecture
Symposium on Architectural Detail
Moderated by Jeremy Gilbert–Rolfe

Carleton School af Architecture, Ottawa, Canada
Visiting critic and lecture

1987

Graduate Center, City College of New York
Symposium on The Anti-Aesthetic by Hal Foster

Tuns School of Architecture at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lecture

1986

Architectural League of New York
AIA symposium on architectural education

1983

School of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington
Lecture

1981

Graduate School of Architecture, Yale University
Seminar lecture

1980

Southbank Polytechnic, London, Great Britain
Visiting critic, lecture

Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, NY
Architects Under 35 series
Lecture on Mies,
Panel on Influences
Moderated by W. Chatham

EXHIBITIONS

2000

John Weber Gallery
A Salon for the 21st Century

1999

Bangkok, Thailand
Cities on the Move

Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
Asia Design Forum project

1998

Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Intimate Space: The House for the 21st Century

1997

Crafts Council, London, Great Britain
Glass, Light, and Space

1996

Spot Gallery, New York, NY

1995

Van Alen Institute, New York, NY
The Flatiron District

1990

Cooper–Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Mondo Materialis
Exhibition and catalogue

1989

Galerie Aedes, Berlin, Germany
Berlin: Denkmal oder Denkmodell

1988

Florence, Italy
Factory Architecture

1981

The Cooper Union
Window, Room, Furniture

1977

American Academy in Rome, Italy

COLLABORATIONS WITH ARTISTS

2003–04

Manifest Destiny paintings
With Alexis Rockman
Drawings and research for 25-foot painting on the ecological future of the New York waterfront
Commissioned for the Brooklyn Museum, traveling exhibition

1997

Glass, Light, and Space, London, Great Britain
Collaboration with 11 artists to concieve exhibition

1996

Installation at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
With Carl Andre

1995

Installation at Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
With Carl Andre

1988–91

Fuori le Mura dance piece and set
With Pooh Kaye and the Eccentric Motions Dance Company
Performed at La Mama, New York, and Strand, Boston
New York State Council for the Arts Architecture Grant

1987

Exhibition proposal for civic space at Federal Building
With Hannah Wilke

1985

Installation at Javits Center, New York, NY
With Antoni Miralda
Statue of Liberty–Columbus project

1982

Installation at Dokumenta, Kassel, Germany
Sea-freight container museum for Colab-artists' works

FILM AND VIDEO OF WORKS AND INTERVIEWS

2001

Film by Tony Kaye
Documentary of Diane Lewis teaching at Cooper Union, built projects, and works in progress

1999

Film for Hamburg Architecture Summer 2000
Interview and chronology of built works in New York

1989

House and Garden HG Film
One of four designers interviewed
Film shown at HG Conference on Design

1988

NY 7 Knoll International video production
Interviewed by M. McDonough and Steven Holt
Film accompanying exhibition on 7 New York architects at the AIA Convention in New York

JURIES

2004

Jury architect/Advisor for Art Gallery Tower
New York, NY
Marlborough Gallery sponsor

2000

Berlin Prize
Jury of the BDA, Berlin, Germany
David Chipperfield, Diane Lewis, Peter Zumthor, Claude Jolly
Recognition for outstanding buildings

1996

Paris Prize
Travel fellowship jury
Jacques Herzog, Diane Lewis, Toshiko Mori
Van Alen Institute, New York, NY

DIANE H. LEWIS
Professor, Full-Time Faculty