RESUME

Design Principal, Abby Suckle Architect PC

President, cultureNOW


EDUCATION

1977 Master of Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design

1972 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Cum Laude University of Pennsylvania

AFFILIATIONS

Registered Architect: California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC. NCARB

Fellow, American Institute of Architects Category: Design

SELECTED BUILDINGS ABBY SUCKLE ARCHITECT PC

2006 : 2011 Harvard Club of NY New York, NY In -house Architect 

2012 Fiterman Hall  City University of New York  New York, NY 

2010 New York Presbyterian Hospital Vivien & Seymour Milstein Pavilion New York, NY 

2009 New York Presbyterian Hospital - Greenberg 14 New York, NY

2007 Kips Bay Towers Community Room New York, NY

2006 Boardman Residence - Carlisle, MA

2005 University Hall - State University of New York Renovations Albany, NY

2003 Temporary Information Kiosks: Ground Zero & Chinatown  New York, NY

2001 Palm Beach Opera Competition Winner West Palm Beach, FL  

MAJOR BUILDINGS PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS 

1982 : 1999 SENIOR ASSOCIATE (Project Architect / Designer Interiors)

2005: now  CONSULTANT

1989 Meyerson Symphony Center  Dallas, TX 

1989 Creative Artists Agency Los Angeles, CA

1991 Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles, CA

1991 John F Kennedy Library Extension Boston, MA 

1993 US Holocaust Memorial Museum  Washington, DC

1995 UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management  Los Angeles, CA  

1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Cleveland, OH

1996 San Francisco Main Library San Francisco, CA  

1997 Engineering Quad Stanford University  Palo Alto, CA

1998 Pixar Animation Studios Emeryville, CA (programming only) 

1999 Roman L Hruska Federal Courthouse  Omaha, NE

2000 College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

2000 ABNAmro World Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands

2005 Harvard Center for Government & International Studies  Cambridge, MA

PLANNING

1997 Armory Art Center Master Plan West Palm Beach, FL

2001 : 2004 Imagine New York  Municipal Art Society Maps + Facilitator  New York, NY

2005 Harvard Green Campus Initiative Cambridge, MA

2001 : 2004 New York New Visions  New York, NY  

2001 : 2004 Listening to the City New York, NY 

2012 : 2014 MASNYC Resilience Roundtable  Municipal Art Society New York, NY

NEW YORK CITY COLLABORATIONS

2017 NYxDesign

2014 : 2021 Lower Manhattan Historical Association Vice President

2013 : 2021 Summer Streets Department of Transportation Public Art and Architecture Maps + tours New York, NY

2011 : 2021 Archtober - Founding Partner, created the Official Archtober App

2014 : 2016 July 4th in Lower Manhattan

2014 : 2021 Janes Walk Municipal Art Society

2013 Ideas City New Museum  New York, NY

2015 Built x Women Digital 

2014 Museums of Lower Manhattan

6.28. 2014 Night at the Museums : Lower Manhattan

2002 : 2021 openhousenewyork

PRINTED MAPS DESIGNED

2015 : 2016 Lower Manhattan THEN and NOW : A Historical Map of Lower Manhattan

2015 Inglewood California : A cultural and historical Map

2013 Sol Lewitt : Installations in Manhattan

2013: 2021 Summer Streets: An Architectural Tour + Summer Streets: An Art Tour

2010 : 2017 Around ManhattanNOW - 5 updated editions 

2009 HarlemNOW : cultural and historical Harlem

2007 Manhattan ArtNOW : public art in Manhattan

2002 : 2006 DowntownNOW 500,000 maps printed and distributed free in 5 updated editions

2003    Manhattan WaterfrontNOW - 150,000 maps printed and distributed free


MAPS : APPS DIGITAL 

2010 : 2021 cultureNOW Museum Without Walls (website, app)

17,000 sites, 2400+ podcasts from artists, architects, curators, historians, 52 self guided tours, 

90+ public art collections, 49,000 images

2014 : 2017 Public Art Education Website : City of Inglewood, CA


AIA EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2013 Los AngelesNOW : Exhibition at the AIA LA

2012 BostonNOW Maps to Apps : Permanent Exhibition in the BSA Space 

2011 Mapping the Cityscape : Center for Architecture, New York, NY


AIA TOURS CREATED

2010 : 2015 Architectural Boat Tour of New York:  

2013 : 2020 Summer Streets : Art and Architecture  along Park Avenue

2014 : 2021 A Jane’s Walk Art and Architecture:  Midtown New York from Seagrams to Grand Central  MAS

2013 Horatio Gates & Marinus Willett : Lower Manhattan’s Forgotten Revolutionary War Heroes and Statesmen

openhousenewyork

2009 : 2013 Hell’s Kitchen:  The Political History of the NY Irish

2009 : 2013 Harlem: The Capital of Black America

2010 AIANY Architectural Tourism Committee Founder

EVENTS PROGRAMS

2011 : 2021 Archtober - Founding Partner, created the Official Archtober App

2012 : 2021 Cocktails + Conversations, Friday Night Dialogues on Design  Center for Architecture New York, NY

2013 : 2019 Summer Streets Department of Transportation Public Art AIA NY Table New York, NY

2008 : 2021 openhouseNewYork, NY

2: 11:  2015 Public Art as Placemaking BSA Space  Boston, MA

7: 28:  2014 Does Public Art Create a Sense of Place: From Fort Point Channel to the Greenway BSA Space, Boston, MA

7 : 04: 2014 July 4th Festival in Lower Manhattan New York NY

6: 28 : 2014 Night at the Museums of Lower Manhattan New York, NY

3: 27 : 2014 Over Time: Defining Modern Boston Thru Photography BSA Space

8 : 1 : 2013 Pecha Kucha : One Event - 3 Cities New York, Los Angeles, Boston

2013 Ideas City New Museum  New York, NY

2013 Boston Greenfest BSA Table Boston MA

2012 Pecha Kucha BSA Space Boston, MA

2011 Mapping the Cityscape 5 Symposia and an exhibition Center for Architecture NY, NY

2008 Artists in Place openhousenewyork

AIA OFFICES

2013 : 2014 AIA New York State Board  (NY City’s Representative)

2012 : 2014 Director of Programs & Strategic Planning AIANY Board

2010 : 2012 Vice President for Outreach AIANY

2007: 2012 Policy Committee AIA NY 

2007 : 2009 Secretary AIANY

AIANY COMMITTEES

2017 AIANY Zero Waste Design Guidelines / Advisory Committee

2012 : 2021 Co-Chair Architecture Dialogues Committee 

2011 : 2015 Exhibitions Committee

2010 : 2015 Architecture Tour Committee Founder + member

2005:  2015 Design for Aging, Design for Risk & Resilience, Global Dialogues, Marketing, Interiors

AIANY INITIATIVES

2006 NBAU : Not Business as Usual, Founded

2011 ARE Boot Camp AIA NY Started the Licensing program over 2000 people have taken the program

2012 Architecture and the Media

2010 : 2015 Architectural Boat Tours

2001 : 2004 New York / New Visions

2011 : 2021 Archtober App

2005 Intern Professional Development Roundtable

AWARDS JURIES

2013 AIA NY Vice President’s Citation Architectural Dialogues Committee Cocktails + Conversations

2012 National AIA  Collaborative Achievement Award cultureNOW

2012 New York State AIA  Presidents Award

2012 AIA Los Angeles Design Awards Juror 

2011 NYC Big Apps 2.0 : cultureNOW MuseumWithoutWalls App

2009 New York State AIA Fellows Award

2006 Boston Society of Architects Interiors Merit Award  Boardman Residence 

2001 National AIA Honor Award Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

2000 Competition Winner Palm Beach Opera with Charles Young + Pei Partnership

1998 AIA NY State Honor Award  UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

1997 AIA / ALA Library Building Award of Excellence San Francisco Main Library

1994 National AIA Honor Award US Holocaust Memorial Museum

1991 National AIA Honor Award Meyerson Symphony Center

TEACHING INTERNSHIPS  

2013 Design for Resilience / Post Sandy Course Advisor Harvard Graduate School of Design

2002 : 2021 cultureNOW  Project based summer & J- term (Jan Break) internships 

Matriculated 50 + students in New York from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Design, MIT

Columbia, NYU, PennDesign, Univ of Chicago,Dartmouth, Barnard, Stuyvesant High

2014 : 2015 Otis College of Art + Design Los Angeles, CA 3 students doing a year long program at Otis

2013 AIA LA Los Angeles CA 9 week summer Internship USC Students

2012 : 2015 BSA Space 9 week Internships during the summer + 3 weeks during January J Term : GSD Students

LECTURES 2013 - 2020

10: 11:2017 Tourism 2.0 Narratives of Time and Place University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Azores

 2 :  7: 2017 Marking Time Marking Place : Lower Manhattan Then & Now Battery Parks City Parks talk NY, NY

10:22:2015 Marking Time: Lower Manhattan Then & Now Cultural Mapping-Debating Spaces & Places Valletta, Malta

11:14: 2014 Museum Without Walls Collaborative Project: Mapping San Francisco’s Performance Class

San Francisco Art Institute  San Francisco, CA

10: 4 : 2014 Writing for Sculptors Panel International Sculpture Conference New Orleans, LA

6: 03: 2014 Accumulation and Action - Digital Records:  Americans for the Arts Webinar

5: 30 : 2014 Archeologies of Place: Mapping Culture 

Plenary Session  Mapping Culture Communities, Sites and Stories International Conference  Coimbre, Portugal

5 : 1: 2014 NYU Tourism Class  New York, NY

3 :29: 2014   US Holocaust Memorial Museum Tour University of Roanoke

12:11: 2013 cultural Tourism 2.0: From Lower Manhattan to Google Earth : DDC Talks New York, NY

11:25: 2013 Maps to Apps : cultural Tourism  Florida Atlantic University : Fort Lauderdale, FL

11:08: 2013 Harry Seidler  University of Virginia, Charlottesburg, VA

10:17: 2013 Designing Sacred Spaces : The Architecture of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum  

Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN

9:26 :  2013 The City & Its Edge : An Architectural Boat Tour for Landlubbers  AIA NY State Convention Syracuse, NY

6:14 :  2013 Building Our Digital National Gallery  Americans for the Arts National Conference  :  Pittsburgh, PA

6:03 :  2013 Visual Resources & The Public Art Challenge  Visual Resources Ass’n National Conference  :  Providence, RI

2:23 :  2013 Post Superstorm:  Planning and Design After Sandy  Harvard Graduate School of Design : Cambridge, MA

1:21 :  2013 Cityscapes of Boston, A City Thru Time  Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA

1:14 :  2013 BostonNOW Maps to Apps Fenway Alliance : Boston, MA

12:13: 2012 BSA Urban Design Dozen BSA Space : Boston, MA

TOURS SELECTED RECENT

2010 : 2021 Architectural Boat Tour, New York, NY - started the tours in Partnership with MoMA and AIANY

2016 : 2021 The Commons: The Heart of New York City Open House NY NY, NY

2016 : 2021 The Art and Architecture of Park Avenue, Summer Streets, NY

10:22: 2015 Marking Time: Lower Manhattan Then & Now Cultural Mapping-Debating Spaces & Places Valletta, Malta

11:12: 2014 Public Art and Cultural Tourism:  San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Center San Francisco, CA

BOARDS COMMITTEES

2002 : 2021 cultureNOW Board President

2010 : 2021 Harvard Club of New York Co-Chair Architecture and Special Interest Group

2014 : 2015 Lower Manhattan Historical Association Vice President

2012 : 2018 Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council

2004 : 2010 Harvard Club of New York Program Committee

AIA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS  

2002 : 2015 cultureNOW / USC Students

2013 AIA LA Los Angeles / USC Students

2012 : 2015 BSA Space Harvard Graduate School of Design

BOOKS

11: 2018 Cocktails and Conversations: Dialogues on Architectural Design AIANY

Edited with William Singer 192 pages

12: 2015 Adventures in Crowdsourcing  Visual Resources Association online Journal

6: 2015 Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry Routledge Press

Chapter 13: Beyond Paper Maps Archeologies of Place with Seetha Raghaputhy p 254 - 275

1984 El Porque de Nuestros Disenos  Ediciones CEAC: Biblioteca de Arquitectura y Construccion, S.

160 pages

1980 By Their Own Design Whitney Library of Design 

160 pages.

PUBLICATIONS SELECTED

2018 Cocktails & Conversations : Dialogues in Architectural Design 192 pages, AIA NY 

11 : 2: 2016 Downtown Express Taking a tour through time : New map : Lower Manhattan Then & Now’ - Dennis Lynch, 

10:14: 2016 The Broadsheet Time Lapse Cartography : Lower Manhattan’s History, Culture, and Future Converge in a Visionary New Map - Matthew Fenton

10: 7 : 2016 The Architect’s Newspaper New maps of Lower Manhattan reveal its dynamic history - Joe Ramsawak

8 :15 : 2016 Street Blog NYC First-Ever “Shared Streets” Brings Stress-Free Streets to Financial District - David Meyer

8 : 10: 3016 AIANY News Mapping Lower Manhattan - Camila Schaulsohn, AIA NY News,

2014 Public Art Review Art-Ography Suzanne Lindgren #51: p36-38

2012 : 2013 Public Art Review  Spreads of cultureNOW sites

10: 6 : 2012 New app makes Boston a ‘museum without walls’
Renée Loth, The Boston Globe

4:  1 : 2012 The Accidental App Developer
Leslie Wolke, segdDESIGN

8:  3 : 2011 Hidden NYC apps
Alexandra Finkel, TimeOut New York

6: 10: 2011 Tourism 2.0
Alyssa Nordhauser, Architect’s Newspaper

2: 25: 2011 Culturenow.org’s Public Art Catalogue Makes NYC a Museum Without Walls
Jason Sheftell, NY Daily News

06 : 2006 Houses We Love Vital Signs Hilary Geronomous Dwell

2000 Meyerson Symphony Center: Building a Dream

Laurie Shulman, University of North Texas Press, 379 pages. interviewed and cited.

COMPETITION ADVISOR

2005 Alumni Design Competition: The Guest Rooms at the Harvard Club

Harvard Club of New York: New York, NY

2006 Surface Over Structure

Wolf Gordon Wallcovering : Harvard Graduate School of Design

winners exhibited at International Contemporary Furniture Fair, May 2006 + Neocon June, 

ICFF Editors Award – ‘New Designer’

Neocon Editors Choice Award

Publications: Metropolis Magazine, June Contract Magazine  July New York Times June 9, 2006, Architectural Record, August, Architectural Lighting July Facilities Management News