An Evening with Thomas Phifer, FAIA

Please join us for a presentation by 2016 Heritage Ball honoree Thomas Phifer, FAIA. Phifer will present recent projects and talk about his career in architecture.

Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm has designed numerous museums, cultural and educational institutions including the Corning Museum of Glass, the United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City, the Rice University Brochstein Pavilion, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Ongoing projects include the Glenstone Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and TR Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw, the Cine Colombia headquarters in Bogotá, the Indiana University student center in Bloomington, and private residences in Texas, Wisconsin, and the Hudson Valley. Thomas Phifer and Partners has received more than 20 honor awards from the American Institute of Architects. He received the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1996 and was awarded the Medal of Honor from the AIA New York in 2004. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was elected as an Academician of the National Academy of Design in 2011. Phifer received his Master of Architecture degree from Clemson University in 1977. This year, Phifer will receive foundation honors from Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and the President’s Award from AIA New York. He will give the Royal Institute of British Architects 2016 keynote lecture in London and is the appointed Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in the spring 2017 semester. Thomas Phifer and Partners projects have been published extensively in the United States and overseas.

Speaker: Thomas Phifer, FAIA, Director, Thomas Phifer and Partners