BARBARA NADEL ARCHITECT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Leader
- Principal
- Member of the National Register of Peer
Barbara Nadel Architect (BNA) is an internationally recognized architectural consulting firm specializing in security planning, architectural programming, and design of civic, justice, healthcare, psychiatric, commercial, cultural, and institutional facilities.
Nadel is the author of the award-winning book Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design. She is often the source for reporters and producers of news stories about design, security, planning, and justice facilities. She has contributed to the AIA with 17 publications and has written more than 450 articles on design, justice, health care, and security. Her continuing education articles in Architectural Record have educated AIA members and provided members with CEU credits for licensure.
Barbara A. Nadel, FAIA, is principal of Barbara Nadel Architect (BNA), a New York City architectural and consulting firm. She is an award-winning architect, author, and journalist, specializing in building security, master planning, programming, and design of civic, justice, healthcare, cultural, and institutional facilities. Her professional accomplishments are multi-disciplinary, global, collaborative, and widely recognized.
Since establishing BNA in 1992, Ms. Nadel has worked with the world's leading institutions, owners, architects, security consultants, engineers, construction managers, and over 40 federal, state, and local government agencies in the U.S. and internationally. Her experience includes transportation, critical infrastructure, corrections facilities, and specialized medical, psychiatric, educational, and commercial development projects.
Ms. Nadel is an advocate for security and design excellence in civic architecture and the built environment. She is editor-in-chief of Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design (McGraw-Hill, 2004), for which she received the 2005 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement and the 2003 Milka Bliznakov Prize from the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), for creating this security resource. She's spoken to over 70 groups in the U.S. and internationally on security and disaster planning, including for government, security, building industry, cultural, justice, healthcare, and legal organizations.
The U.S. General Services Administration appointed Ms. Nadel to the National Register of Peer Professionals in the Design Excellence Program, where she contributes to the quality of American civic architecture. Ms. Nadel represented AIA at the State Department's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) Industry Advisory Panel. She chaired the AIA 21st Century Embassy Task Force and authored Design for Diplomacy: New Embassies for the 21st Century (AIA. 2009), which provided the framework for OBO's Design Excellence program.
The White House appointed Ms. Nadel to address security for historic federal properties at the Preserve America Summit, where she collaborated with the U.S. Department of Defense, national public officials, and preservation leaders.
Ms. Nadel is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Arts) and the State University of New York at Binghamton (Bachelor of Arts, Pre-Architecture). She studied architecture at Cornell University, physics at Hofstra University, and management at the University of Rhode Island. She has taught design studios, and served as an academic design critic and juror for national and international design awards programs.