ARCHITECTURE - Key Persons

Susan Rodriguez leads the studio in collaboration with a core team of architects and designers in a light filled space in the heart of New York City's Chelsea Gallery district, a block from the High Line. Her work focuses upon the design of buildings for cultural, educational, scientific and governmental institutions. In 2016, she was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Design Leader Award for the breadth and impact of her built work over the last three decades. She has also received numerous awards for design excellence, among them, National AIA Honor Awards, New York State AIA Awards, New York City AIA Awards and American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum. Prior to starting an independent practice, she was a founding partner and design principal at Ennead Architects (formerly Polshek Partnership) recipients of the NYC AIA Medal of Honor, the AIA National Architecture Firm Award and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. As an extension of her professional work, Ms. Rodriguez actively promotes the importance of design in the public realm. She has been a longtime board member of the Architectural League of New York and one of the founding board members of Art Works Projects: Art + Design for Human Rights. She is also active in the educational and academic realm where she lectures frequently on her work and has taught numerous design studios at Cornell, Columbia, and City College. She has served on the board of the Collegiate School and the Chewonki Foundation, where she is currently an advisor. Ms. Rodriguez received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, where she is a co-chair of the Dean's Advisory Council and a former trustee of the University. She received a master's degree in Architecture from Columbia University and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.