Karen Bausman

Karen Bausman, AIA, FAAR, is an educator and licensed architect registered to practice in New York. She leads Women-Owned Business Enterprise-certified Karen Bausman + Associates (KB+A) in Manhattan. Since 2011, she has been a Pratt Institute School of Architecture faculty member. She previously held distinguished teaching positions at other universities, including the Eliot Noyes Visiting Design Critic in Architectural (Chair) at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture. Karen taught Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1990 to 2004.

Recipient of the Rome Prize, Karen has researched, published, and exhibited her work extensively over her academic and professional career. Academic Influence named Karen one of the top women leaders in STEM in 2020 in recognition of her achievements in teaching architecture through the intersection of crucial disciplines. Her design research has been supported by a Pratt School of Architecture Faculty Fellowship, a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Architecture (NYFA), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), Creative Time, Artists Space, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, (LMCC) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. She received the President’s Citation of Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Architecture from The Cooper Union, her Alma Mater, and was inducted into the Cooper Union Hall of Fame.

Karen co-founded and leads Wind Power NYC, a Pratt research consortium studying how energy technologies can reshape urban environments and co-established its archive in 2020. Her firm, KB+A, holds multiple Design Excellence contracts with the City of New York, supporting sustainable waterfront development. The firm received the 2022 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy for Highbridge Water Tower and Step Street.

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Cutting-Edge Wind Power Designs Seek to Transform NYC Waterfront

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How Can Wind Power Reshape the NYC Waterfront for Sustainability and Access?

https://www.pratt.edu/prattfolio/stories/how-can-wind-power-reshape-the-nyc-waterfront-for-sustainability-and-access/

B.Arch., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Architecture