Since founding Thomas Phifer and Partners in 1997, Thomas ......Thomas Phifer has served as a...
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Since founding Thomas Phifer and Partners in 1997, Thomas Phifer has completed an expansion of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, an expansion of the Corning
Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Raymond and Susan
Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and numerous houses in the Hudson
River Valley of New York State.
Ongoing projects include the Museum of Modern Art and TR Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw; Cine Colombia headquarters in Bogota; an outdoor performance pavilion in Austin; a student
center and an International Studies Center for Indiana University in Bloomington; private residences in Dallas, Austin, Milan, and Amagansett, New York. Thomas Phifer is also engaged
in the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project in Lower Manhattan.
Since 1997, Thomas Phifer and Partners has received three Design Excellence awards from the
General Services Administration and more than 20 honor awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as numerous national and international citations. His projects have been
published and exhibited extensively in the United States and overseas. A monograph on the work of Thomas Phifer and Partners was released in 2010 by Skira Rizzoli .
Thomas Phifer received the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1996 and was awarded the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects in 2004. He was elected as an Academician of the National Academy of
Design in 2011. In 2013, Thomas Phifer received the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2016, he was honored by the New York
Chapter of the American Institute of Architects with the President's Award and by the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation. He also gave the 2016 keynote lecture at the Royal Institute of
British Architects in London. In 2019, he was awarded the National Design Award in
Architectural Design from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Thomas Phifer is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the boards of the Architectural
League of New York and the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation .
Thomas Phifer has served as a visiting professor at numerous architecture schools, including the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Cooper Union,
University of Southern California, University of Texas, and Cornell University College of
Architecture, Art, and Planning. Thomas Phifer has been appointed the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design and the Louis I Kahn Visiting Professor of
Architectural Design, both at the Yale School of Architecture. Thomas Phifer received his
Bachelor of Architecture in 1975 and his Master of Architecture in 1977, both from Clemson
University.