FIT Honors LTL Architects
The firm's three principals claim their prize by presenting a lecture at the school's Katie Murphy Auditorium on April 16.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 4/8/2010 12:00:00 AM
Joining a long list of Interior Design Hall of Famers such as Charles Gwathmey, Adam Tihany and Jamie Drake, the three principals of New York architecture firm LTL Architects have been honored with the annual Lawrence Israel Prize for outstanding architects and designers from the city’s Fashion Institute of Technology.
Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David Lewis will be honored for works such as the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and “Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront,” an exhibit proposing infrastructure solutions to combat the effects of climate change, which runs at New York’s Museum of Modern Art through October 11.
Founded in 1997, LTL's other recent awards include the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Architecture and a James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design for Xing in New York. The trio is currently putting the finishing touches on “Arthouse,” a contemporary art museum in Austin, Texas, while also working on a home in Akron, Ohio, where they are weaving a house into the surrounding flora.
The FIT award was named after one of the school’s former professors of interior design, who was also one of the founding members of the Institute for Store Planners. Israel graduated Magna Cum Laude from NYU’s School of Architecture and went on to become a partner at Copeland, Novak & Israel where he became an icon for his work at Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue and Harrods of London.
LTL will claim their prize by presenting a lecture, "Opportunistic Play," at FIT's Katie Murphy Auditorium on April 16. The educational setting should make David Lewis feel right at home--after all, he’s the director of the design workshop at Parsons, another of New York’s many world-class universities.
Images courtesy of the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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