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Education

B. Arch., The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Parsons School of Design, Department of Environmental Design

Biography

Erika Hinrichs has been an administrator in the UG Architecture Program since 2009, working as both Interim Chair and Assistant Chair. As a Professor she has taught at all levels of the curriculum and maintains a strong connection to the students, both former and current. Professionally, she has practiced in New York City since 1990, working for seven years with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architects where she was responsible for several highly acclaimed projects including the auditorium building for the Neuroscience's Institute in La Jolla, California which received a national AIA citation. She maintains an avid interest in materials- new, natural and recycled and the manner in which they relate to both each other and to the body through detail. She founded her own firm in partnership with Frederick Biehle in 1997.

Teaching and Administrative Experience

UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT CHAIR
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn NY 2012- present

Initially as Interim Assistant Chair but also as Departmental Chair for three semesters coordinated the NAAB presentation for UG Architecture and initiated a curriculum review to address the primary concerns of the accrediting evaluation. Endorsed and expanded the fall semester Honors Review for Advanced Options Studios. Created the Elective Seminar Committee to evaluate the elective offerings for content, reorganization and designation.

Interim Undergraduate Architecture Chair, summer 2010- 2012, Interim Undergraduate Assistant Chair Sept 2009- Summer 2010, Planning Development Committee (representing the School of Architecture, 2009-10, Academic Senate, 2010-2012, Chairs Council, 2010-12, Provosts Council (as Representative of School of Architecture’s Chairs Council), 2010-12, Institute Wide Curriculum Committee (IWCC) 2011, Academic Strategic Planning Committee, 2011, Selection Committee for Architecture Department Chair, 2011, Selection Committee for Full Time Position for Design and Emerging Technology, 2012, Rome Program Student Assessment Committee 2002-present.

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn NY 1998- present
Core Level (1st year) Design Studio Critic, 2004
Core Level (2nd year) Design Studio Critic, 2001-2012
Core Level (3rd year) Construction Documents, 1998-99
Upper Level (4th year) Design Studio Critic, 1999
Upper Level Rome (4th year) Design Studio Critic and Elective Drawing, 2002, 2006-2008
Coordinator, Pratt Institute Rome Program 2001-2003, Contributor Rome In-Process 2004, Guest Lecturer, Core History Sequence, 2010, Degree Project Assessment Committee, 2008-present, Peer Evaluation Committee Mediator, 2008.

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Parsons School of Design, Dept of Environmental Design, New York, NY 2000-2004.

Core Level (1st year) Design Studio Critic, 2000-2004
Summer Pre-college Introductory Course, 2000-20004
Foundation, Introductory course in architecture, 2000-20004

Professional Experience

FREDERICK BIEHLE ERIKA HINRICHS viaARCHITECTURE, PLLC  New York City 1997- present
Partnership with Frederick Biehle- specializing in smaller scale work – what we term “thinking through drawing”.

Selected Residential Works

FAN PENTHOUSE, NYC (landmarked apartment for a cellist and family), CONWAY RESIDENCE, SHELTER ISLAND NY (1200sf renovation with a 1200sf addition to a 1920s kit house cottage), GORDON/WOLFE LOFT, NYC (Renovation for Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founders of Bang on a Can), SCHACHNER RESIDENCE, (Renovation of Hudson Valley Riverfront Home),  RAYBURN RESIDENCE, HUNTING VALLEY OHIO  (11,000 sf Estate Renovation and Addition), CRAIG/KALMUS LOFT, NYC ( renovation in the historic  Brooklyn Eagle Warehouse), MADNICK RESIDENCE, (triplex apartment with exterior terrace), RAYBURN-GUESS APARTMENT, NYC (full floor in Richard Meier’s Charles Street Tower), SANTIAGO-HUDSON APARTMENT, NYC (Triplex apartment), CONNORS LOFT, NY (3500 sf duplex apartment with rooftop penthouse for a filmmaker), MILLER LOFT, NYC (apartment for a cabinetmaker with a collection of contemporary furniture), KWASNICKI LOFT, NYC (live-work loft), SHRIVER APARTMENT, NYC (penthouse apartment for a painter)

Selected Not for Profit Projects

ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT FILM MAKERS, NYC (3000 sf new offices, library and screening room)
HARLEM MUSIC LAB, NYC (Proposal for an after school recording music facility)  P.O.V., AMERICAN DOCUMETARY, NYC (6000 sf new offices and screening room in DUMBO)

Selected Commercial/Retail/Institutional Projects

CHELSEA ART TOWER, NYC (Entry Lobby and Façade for Commercial Condominium), EMPORIO ARMANI, NYC (Proposal for new flagship store in SOHO), HUDSON TELECOM CENTER, NYC (new entry lobby, exterior canopy and façade),  MADISON MODEL, NYC (New studio and offices),  LIZDEN INDUSTRIES SILK SHOWROOM, NYC  (new showroom, design studios, and offices), AVANTI PRESS, NYC (greeting card designer studios), Evansandwong CATALOQUE VOL.1 NO 45 Dirt Cheap and Very Expensive, (Voyeurs Shower Window 1999)

TOD WILLIAMS AND BILLIE TSIEN, ARCHITECTS, New York City 1990-1996
Project Architect: THE CHAMBER MUSIC AUDITORIUM for the Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA (350 seat auditorium designed together with the acoustician Cyril Harris, San Diego AIA award, 1995, National AIA Award 1996, Progressive Architecture, April 1995, The Brain Exchange), THE GRODD RESIDENCE, Water Mill, NY, (5000 sf waterfront home with outdoor pool, pool and guest house, GA Houses no. 54  November 1997),  THE QUANDT LOFT, New York, NY, (Interior and Furniture Design, Architectural Record, September 1991, Balancing Act, House & Garden, October 1991, Exploring Space), PERFORMANCE SET FOR LISA MONTE DANCE, (Transformational set design with structural engineer Guy Nordenson/Ove Arup for “The World Upside Down” , City Center, NY, Exhibited and published with Light Construction, MOMA, 1997)

JAMES CARPENTER GLASS ATELIER, New York, NY, 1988-1989

Publications/Lectures

ROME RE-MIX, Nov 2007, Robert Seigal Gallery, Pratt Institute School of Architecture.  HG TELEVISION, Living Large in Small Space, February 2006.   TOPPING THE LOFT, Architectural Digest, April 2005. SMART LOFTS, Edited by James Truelove, Harper Collins, 2003 .  LIVING LARGE IN SMALL SPACE, Edited by Marissa Bertolucci, Harry N. Abrams 2003.  FIGURAL THINKING, March 2000, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY.  BIG IDEAS FOR SMALL SPACES, James Trulove and Il Kim, Hearst Publications, 2000.  MADE TO MEASURE, Interiors, October 1999.  PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST, Interior Design, May 1999.  THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, Interior Design, July 1998. DRESS DESIGN, Time-Out New York, collaboration between an architect, two fashion designers, and a dressmaker, February 1997.

Performances

Collaboration with evansandwong, Paris, “SOMEBODIES: FAIRIES, QUEENS, EMPERORS AND THEIR NEW CLOTHES”  Collection Printemps/Eté 95, performed in Paris, at Espace Luatrec, October 16 1994, performed in New York, at Artists Space, October 22 1994.
Collaboration with evansandwong, Paris, “BEHAVE: CONSTRUCTIONS, ALTERATIONS & SPECULATIONS”
Collection Printemps/Eté 94 performed in Paris at L’Elysee Marbbeuf October 10, 1993.
Andahazy Ballet Company , Minneapolis MN, Company Member , position Corp de Ballet, 1974-1981
Classical ballet, character dance: techniques in Spanish, Hungarian, and Russian, and Ballet pedagogy, Ballet Masters
Lorand Anduhazy & Anna Andrianova (former members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo under Diagelev)
Performances: “Le Grande Paux De Quate”, danced the role of Dame Taglioni, re-staged by Sir Anton Dolan from the Royal Ballet of London.  “Los Sieseus”, danced the role of Pontius Pilot, based on 18th c choirboys in Seville reenacting the passion play.