The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Thomas Phifer, FAIA, of Thomas Phifer and Partners.

Thomas Phifer founded his New York studio in 1997. He has completed projects such as the Glenstone Museum expansion in Potomac, Maryland, the Corning Museum of Glass expansion in Corning, New York, and the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is currently engaged in the design of the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw and TR Warszawa Theatre complex in Warsaw, Poland, the Waterloo Park Performance Pavilion in Austin, Texas, and the CineColombia Headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia. He currently serves as the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture.

Thomas Phifer will be receiving the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s Annual National Awards in the Architecture Design category two days after speaking at the Center for Architecture.