Daniel Meridor
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Education
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: New York, NY. Department of Architecture, 2009- 2010 M.ArchII
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: New York. NY. Department of Architecture, 2002-2006. B.Arch
Tel-Aviv University: Tel-Aviv. Israel. Department of Architecture, 1999-2002
Venice International University: Venice. Italy. Program in Social Science and Art, 2001-2002
Grants/Fellowships
2013 The Young Kiesler Award Grant - with Professor Diane Lewis, Peter Schubert , Dan Sherer, Mersiha Veledar
2009-2010 Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship M.Arch II, The Cooper Union
2008 AIA Brunner Grant, Research with Diane Lewis and Emma Fuller
2006 The American Institute of Architects, Henry Adams Medal and Certificate of Merit, for Excellence in the Study of Arch.
2006 Irma Giustino Weiss Prize, Top Prize in Architecture, The Cooper Union, 147th Commencement
2006 The Cooper Union Alumni Association Award, for Service and Leadership, The Cooper Union
2002-2006 Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship B.Arch, The Cooper Union
2004-2005 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship, The Cooper Union
2001-2002 Tel-Aviv University Exchange Scholarship at VIU
Exhibitions
2015 Sept Beautiful Decay. An International show in the subject of decay and inhabitation. “Subversive Impulses in Spanish Ghost Towns” - Photo Montages
The ARC, Opa-Locka, Miami, Florida
2010 Mar Photoplay.Selected as one of two architects to exhibit.“Not a Piece of architecture but architecture in piece” - videoGallery of the Workman’s Circle Building, New York.
2008 Oct “From Whales to Coal Mines”, Ink Drawings, Part of a group exhibition at The Cooper Union Houghton Gallery Curated by Sue Gussow
2007 Apr NY 150+: A Timeline-Ideas-Civic Institutions-Future.Research and exhibition plan with architect Emma Fuller for Diane Lewis Architect. Sponsored by the Brunner grant AIANY. Exhibited on AIA NY, and Published on Oculus magazine and on And Magazine no 14
2006 Oct “Affordable Housing - Will We Be Ready?” Long Island, NY.AIANYS Convention and a Group Exhibition.Centrifugal Tendencies Part 2 – A Proposal for a New Typology of a Bedouin Settlement in Israel.
2006 Sept The Center for Architecture, NYC Centrifugal Tendencies Part 2 – A Proposal for a New Typology of a Bedouin Settlement in Israel.
2005 Nov Benjamin Menschel Exhibition, The Cooper UnionCentrifugal Tendencies Part 1—A Critique of Bedouin Urbanization process in Israel.
Reviewed by the Israeli Consulate Cultural Division
2001 Oct Public Art in Venice, group art on the squares next to Biennale Boards in Venice, Italy. Drawings and Photography: Venetian Blinds:
Artist Collaborations
2013 Mar Moma Expo 1: New York Rockaways, Far Rockaways, Moma, New York. Collaboration with Sophie Cooke and Peter Coan. The Pulse - A Transformation of the Rockaways, Movie.
2010 Oct Warming Huts Design Competition, Winnipeg Canada. A structure integrating Sophie Cooke's paintings, Bubble Wrap Snow Room - Design of A Winter hut
2008 Sep A+Covering+Symmetry five prototypes Design for Urban Coats prototypes with Adi Shimitchi
2008 March Postmasters Gallery and reconstructed in Zeroone festival San-Jose Design of a portal for projections by the artist Eddo Stern
Published Works
2018 “Invisible Clouds: Nuclear Testing and Radioactive Spaces” In Architecture of Nature, Nature of Architecture, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, NY, by Diana Agrest, Applied Research and Design Publishing, China
2018 “Diane Lewis, Seven Moments” In Thesis 2017, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, NY
2015 Sep “Architecture form Within” in Open-City: An Existential Approach, by Diane Lewis, Charta Art Books, Milan
2015 Sep “Abrading Paris’ Scar”, A proposal for an International Learning Center at the BibliothËque Nationale de France, Paris, France, 2005, in Open-City: An Existential Approach, by Diane Lewis, Charta Art Books, Milan
2013 Mar “Medianeras/Sidewalls: A Film by Gostavo Taretto”, Framework: DOSSIER: Architects on Film: Architects on the Frame. Vol. 54 no. 1
2011 Dec “5 Minutes and 32 SecondS After” 2012 printed Catalogue - Calendar, Spicy Umbrella, Thirteen artists works’ for 2012
2010 Jan “Utopia Redux” by Lebbeus Woods. on lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com
2009 Apr “And” Rivista Quadrimetrale di architetture, citta e architetti Sprezzatura New York, AIA 150+ with Diane Lewis and Emma Fuller, Brunner AIA Grant
2008 Apr “From Whales to Coal Mines“ Architects Draw, by Sue Ferguson Gussow, Princeton Architectural Press;
2005 May “Body” Journal Drawings: “from Whales to Coal mines to...” Re-Vision—Coal Mining Communities and Mine Erosion in Svalbard, Norway and Ukraine.
Lectures
2014 Apr ”The Ephemeral, The Transient and The Covert”
The Cooper Union Faculty Lecture Series
2007 Jan ‘Towards a new Bedouin Township”
An NGO aiding Bedoiuns in the Negev, Israel
2006 Jul ”Centrifugal Tendencies” Part I & II
The Cooper Union Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
Symposia
2015 Nov ”Open City: Existential Urbanity” , Moderator
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New YorkThe
2015 Nov ”Open City: Existential Urbanity” , Participant
MoMa The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
Interviews
2013 Apr “On the Bowery: Architect & Continuum”, a film by Anita Sieff and TreeLine. First exhibited at The New Museum in New York City. Bowery Reimagined - Ideas City.
2010 Jan “New York City Artist – Daniel Meridor”,Yedioth Ahronot America, interviewed by Yam Hameiri
2008 Jul “Rudolph Remanded”, Architects Newspaper, interviewed by Jeff Byles
2008 Jun “Preservation or Parking?”, Metropolis, interviewed by Daniella Morell
2008 Mar “Rich at Heart”, Yedioth Ahronot America, interviewed by Michal Daniel
Book Editing
2009-2015 “Open-City” An Existential Approach. Coedited With Professor Diane Lewis and Matthew Hitscherich, Charta Art Books Milan, The Cooper Union
An anthology of urban studio projects 2001-2014 of The Cooper Union, Reviewed in Architectural Record, Archidose.com
Teaching Experience
2010- 2016 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Architecture. New York, NY
2013-2014 “Transient Boundaries”, A Seminar by Daniel Meridor
A seminar exploring the concept of transience in architecture and how to envision new ways of approaching it within the context of space and structure
2010-2016 Cooper Union 4th Year Architecture of the City Studios
Civic Ceasura, 2016 / CutOuts, 2015 / Commedia dell’Arte, 2014 / On the Bowery, 2013 / Templum, New York, 2012 / Autonomies, 2010
With Professors Diane Lewis, Peter Schubert, Dan Sherer, Mersiha Veledar, Calvin Tsao, Francois de Menil, Robert Estirn
2011-2012 MArchII, Films and the city , Incursions into urban form and discourse
2012, 2014-2015 MArchII, Thesis
With Professor Diana Agrest
2007 BAU Institute, Baryshnikov Arts Center. New York, NYSpace, Territory, Space, A Seminar by Daniel Meridor