Keynote Speaker - Nicholas Goldsmith

Nicholas Goldsmith is a Senior Principal at FTL Design & Engineering Studio since 1978. Prior to joining the firm, he was a designer at Atelier Frei Otto in Stuttgart, Germany. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the AIA, the IASS, and former Chairman of the Lightweight Structures Association.

Nicholas Goldsmith was in charge of design for many of FTL’s projects, including the award winning Russell Aitken Seabird Aviary at the Bronx Zoo, the award winning DKNY Headquarters Building in New York, and the MOMRA Recreation Center in Saudi Arabia. In addition, he designed the Carlos Moseley Music Pavilion for the Metropolitan Opera and NY Philharmonic a deployable concert facility, traveling to all NYC’s parks.

Nicholas Goldsmith has designed exhibitions including “Under the Sun” an exhibition on solar energy for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in NY and Smithsonian Institution in ‘98 and ‘99, a worldwide traveling interactive exhibition for the United Nations (UNFPA), and an exhibition for Material Connexion on “Tensions in Architecture”.

He has been featured in innumerable publications including an Architectural Monograph titled: FTL: SOFTNESS, MOVEMENT & LIGHT, published by Academy Editions in 1998, and the entire May 1995 Interiors Magazine.

Nicholas Goldsmith’s academic experience includes Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2004 and the 2001 Visiting Professor in Innsbruck, Austria. He was a visiting Professor at the Pratt School of Architecture from 1992 through 1997 and a wide range of international lectures and teaching in the US, the UK, Germany and South America.