NJIT - PublicInfo: Peter C. Papademetriou

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Peter C. Papademetriou

Peter C. Papademetriou, PhD	Peter C. Papademetriou has been professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1988 and director of graduate programs from 1991-2004. He currently is engaged in research for a critical biography of the life and work of American architect Eero Saarinen, for which he received the Arnold W. Brunner Scholarship of the New York Chapter/AIA, support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Papademetriou has published numerous major articles on Saarinen since establishing an archive at Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, successor firm to Eero Saarinen and associates’ practice, most recently a continuing series in Casabella magazine. He served on the faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for 20 years and has lectured and taught in architecture programs in the United States and Canada. While at Yale, he was co-editor of Perspecta 12, the Yale Architectural Journal, which received the Architecture Critics Citation of the American Institute of Architects. He served as correspondent on the masthead of Architectural Forum and Progressive Architecture for twenty years, served as contributing editor to Texas Architect for nearly a decade, and was for three years the first executive editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, (published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) and twice a member of the JAE Editorial Board. He has also written extensively in the international professional press, as well as several books and book chapters. His professional practice has received AIA component and state design awards, in addition to publication. Papademetriou completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and his professional MArch at Yale University.

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