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'''Karen Bausman''' (born February 8, 1958) is an American architect. She has previously served as the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture at Yale University, the only American woman to hold both design chairs.
She is principal of Karen Bausman + Associates, a Manhattan-based architecture firm founded in 1995.<ref name="twins">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/nyregion/thecity/when-two-sisters-are-better-than-one.html |title=When Two Sisters Are Better Than One |last=Fried |first=Joseph R. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 11, 2005 |accessdate=October 29, 2018}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Bausman was born February 8, 1958, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and attended Cooper Union in New York City, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982.<ref>[https://www.pratt.edu/people/karen-bausman/ "Karen Bausman"] at Pratt Institute</ref>
The earliest and most lasting influence on her expanding thoughts about art and architecture, according to Bausman, was John Hejduk, Cooper Union's dean who revolutionized architectural education in the United States and encouraged independent research.<ref name=lacy>Lacy, Bill; Green, Allan; Hejduk, John; Diller, Elizabeth; Lewis, Diane; Shkapich, Kim. "Education of an Architect." Rizzoli Press International Publications, 1988, p. 8,9, 288-9.</ref> Her thesis project, ''One-Way Bridge'', was featured in ''Education of an Architect'', published by Rizzoli International Publications in 1988<ref name=Klimoski> Klimoski, Alex. “Cooper Union Exhibit Highlights Thesis Projects From Notable Alums.” Architectural Record. October 29, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13731-cooper-union-exhibit-highlights-thesis-projects-from-notable-alums</ref> and exhibited in 2018 in ''Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical'', a show highlighting the school's pedagogy through thesis projects from notable graduates. ''One-Way Bridge'' is part of Cooper Union's digital archive.<ref name=Walsh>Walsh, Niall Patrick. “Thesis Works of Daniel Libeskind, Liz Diller and Others Exhibited at the Cooper Union.” Archdaily. November 10, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/905086/thesis-works-of-daniel-libeskind-liz-diller-and-others-exhibited-at-the-cooper-union</ref>
==Career== Bausman was a faculty member of Columbia University's School of Architecture's Advanced Architectural Design Studio (AAD) from 1990 to 2004 as the design studio was radically altered by digital visualization, the introduction of new materials, and the integration of digital with analog production.<ref>Cramer, Ned; Guiney, Anne. "The Computer School." Architecture, 2000 September, p.94-98.</ref> Her applied research into biological and other natural structures, together with computational design techniques she developed<ref>Dollens, Dennis. MIT Press Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2. 2004, April. p. 163. Performance Theater and other works.</ref> are featured in ''INDEX Architecture'', a Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation book published by MIT Press in 2003.
In April 1994, Bausman was awarded the Rome Prize at a White House ceremony.<ref>Molotsky, Irvin. The Living Arts: "Rome Prizes Awarded At White House." The New York Times, April 22, 1994. p. A/1.</ref> She was awarded the Cooper Union Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Architecture in that same year. In 1995, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
In 2005, she was the subject of a profile in ''The New York Times'' after her firm was awarded a multiyear design and construction excellence contract as part of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s initiative to bring new ideas and technologies to the design of city-financed libraries, community centers, and other structures in New York City. She received the 2022 Lucy G. Moss Preservation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy for Highbridge Step Street and Tower, large-scale civic waterfront infrastructure projects for the City of New York.<ref>New York Landmarks Conservancy 2022 Lucy G. Moss Preservation Award (Highbridge Tower and Step Street</ref><ref>[https://nylandmarks.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/MosesAwardsProgram2022.pdf 2022 Moses Awards Program PDF]</ref> Bausman leads a research consortium at Pratt School of Architecture, Brooklyn, on how energy source issues impact built environments and how new technologies, such as wind power can be integrated into New York's waterfront infrastructure design.<ref>Cutting-Edge Wind Power Designs Seek to Transform NYC Waterfront</ref><ref>[https://www.pratt.edu/news/cutting-edge-wind-power-designs-seek-to-transform-nyc-waterfront/How Can Wind Power Reshape the NYC Waterfront for Sustainability and Access?] https://www.pratt.edu/prattfolio/stories/how-can-wind-power-reshape-the-nyc-waterfront-for-sustainability-and-access/</ref>
Among Bausman's interior design projects are award-winning New York headquarters for her private clients Warner Bros. and Elektra Entertainment Group.<ref>Fisher, Thomas. "Music and Matter." Progressive Architecture, 1993 October, p.58-65. Warner Bros. Records, Elektra Entertainment Group.</ref> She has also built numerous private residences. ''The Women Who Changed Architecture'' features a selection of her works.<ref> ''The Women Who Changed Architecture'' https://papress.com/products/the-women-who-changed-architecture</ref>
Bausman lectures on her work and on architecture at universities nationwide and as a television commentator, including "The Towers of Gotham" episode on ''Secrets of New York'' on PBS stations.<ref>Secrets of New York: The Towers of Gothamhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445900/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cred_t_1 </ref>
Bausman's study of nature's sustainable structures and her research into biological composite systems underlie her building designs.<ref>Oshima, Ken Tadashi. 'Karen Bausman + Associates." A+U (Japan), 2001 September; p.122-125. Hamlin Chapel and Library.</ref><ref>Tschumi, Bernard; Berman, Matthew. INDEX: Architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.: 2003 May., p. 9,11,21,26,84,86,128,131,147-8,153, 190,202,213,223,252,266, 281. Performance Theater and Hamlin Library and Chapel projects by Karen Bausman.</ref> Suggesting unfolding flower petals, Performance Theater, which was designed as a hybrid performance venue for Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, replaced a parking lot in the center of its Burbank, California campus with flexible stage and amphitheater spaces for use by the entertainment community. "It springs from the ground in a way that is expressive of the expansive new ideas embodied by the company's roster of performing artists," she said when accepting the Progressive Architecture Award for the theater's design in 1998.<ref>Ward, Timothy Jack. "Currents, ARCHITECTURE: Some Advanced Praise for Projects in Utero." The New York Times, 9 April 1998, p.F/3. Performance Theater.</ref><ref>"P/A Awards: Performance Theater: Karen Bausman + Associates." Architecture, 1998 April (Awards Issue), p.82-85.</ref>
This commission and other works that push the boundaries of structural and visual poetry<ref>Shkapich, Kim. "Karen Bausman: Supermodels." Harvard University Graduate School of Design Exhibition catalogue, 2002.p. 1-6.</ref> formed the basis of ''Karen Bausman: Supermodels'', a solo exhibition of her building designs and working methods at Harvard University in 2001. She debuted her Performance Theater project drawings in 1997 in ''stung by splendor: working drawings and the creative moment'', a group exhibition that also included the work of Chuck Hoberman, Jenny Holtzer, Maya Lin, and Frank Stella at Arthur A. Houghton Jr, Gallery.<ref name=Gussow>Gussow, Susan Ferguson. Architects Draw, New York: Princeton Architectural Press; p.161, 17. 2008 Architects Draw: Freeing the Hand Exhibition, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery in 2008 https://cooper.edu/architecture/news/sue-ferguson-gussow-a56-architects-draw-freeing-hand </ref> Her drawings were also exhibited in ''Architects Draw: Freeing the Hand'' at Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery in 2008 and featured in ''Architects Draw'', published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2008.<ref name=Gussow />
==Awards and honors== * Elliot Noyes Chair, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2001 * Progressive Architecture Award for Design Excellence, ''Progressive Architecture'' magazine, 1998 * Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 1994 * Eero Saarinen Chair, Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, 1994 * Cooper Union Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Architecture, 1994 * Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York, 1992 * New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, 1988, 1996
==Major building designs== * Performance Theater for Warner Bros., Los Angeles (P/A Award 1998) * Hamlin Chapel and Library (''Architecture'' awards issue) * Korean Memorial and Cultural Center (Karen Bausman: "Supermodels" Exhibit, Harvard Graduate School of Design * Flower Tower * Highbridge Step Street (New York Landmarks Conservancy 2022 Lucy G. Moss Preservation Award)
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==External links== * [http://www.karenbausman.com/home.html Karen Bausman + Associates] *[https://twitter.com/ThWallPrjct "Karen Bausman"] at Twitter
* [https://aarome.org/society-of-fellows/directory American Academy Fellows directory]
* List of fellows of the American Academy in Rome (1991–2010)
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