SPEAKERS

Tom Phifer

Partner, Thomas Phifer and Partners

Thomas Phifer AIA is founding principal of the New York-based architecture firm Thomas Phifer and Partners. The firm is now engaged in commissions for notable public and private buildings in the United States and Europe. Recently completed projects include a new building for the North Carolina Museum of Art, a new student center for Rice University, and a commercial office building in Washington, DC. Projects currently in design or construction include a new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, a new architecture school for Clemson University, and a new performing arts addition for historic Castle Clinton in Lower Manhattan.

Phifer received the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome in 1996. He served as design partner in the firm of Richard Meier & Partners from 1986 -1996, and he was a senior design associate for Gwathmey Siegel & Associates from 1979-1985. Phifer, who received his Master of Architecture degree from Clemson University, was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1953. A frequent juror and critic, he has lectured at Harvard, Cornell, Penn, Columbia, University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of Miami, and Clemson.