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I-Beam is an award winning Architecture and Design firm founded by Suzan Wines and Azin Valy, with over 20 years of professional experience and offices based in New York City. I-Beam is a 100% certified woman owned company and the partners are graduates of The Cooper Union School of Architecture on full scholarships.
I-Beam specializes in design and construction of corporate, commercial, cultural, landscape, and residential projects. Their projects range from museum quality craftsmanship to pre fabricated refugee housing. Suzan Wines is a licensed architect in the State of New York and has served as the New York correspondent for Domus Magazine for seven years and taught at The Cooper Union and Parsons New School for Design. She is currently teaching at City College and Pratt Institute. Azin Valy, She has been a guest critic at Parsons, Pratt, Columbia, MICA and Parsons. Prior to I-Beam Design, Ms. Valy worked at Gensler and Associates, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Wormser and Associates, and Building Inc. Ms. Valy is also the founder and CEO of a luxury fashion brand, Cityzen by Azin, based on incorporating satellite maps onto textiles and fusing the urban scale with the scale of the body. |
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AWARDS & COMPETITIONS
2014 Featured among top New York Architect and Designers, New York Magazine
Design Hunting, Summer, 2014
2012 Iranian-American Society of Architects and Engineers in NY, Appreciation Award
2011 Winner, World's Coolest Offices, Inc. Magazine + Architizer
Winning Project: Andrew Davidson & Co. Offices, New York, NY
Forclosed: ReHousing the American Dream, MoMA, New York, NY
Nominated to participate in an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art that addresses environmental and urban crises.
Haiti Housing Collaborative Charrette, Center for Architecture, New York, NY
I-Beam Design's Pallet House is a finalist in this competition organized by the AIANY Chapter’s Global Dialogues Committee to design new housing prototypes for Haiti.
2010 Earth Awards Exhibition and Start/IBM Summit for a Sustainable Future, London
Invited to exhibit a full-scale Pallet House in Prince Charles’ Royal Gardens
Echoing Green Grant- The Pallet House was a semi-finalist for a $100,000 grant
2009 The Benetton Headquarters Competition, â€A Woven Buildingâ€, Tehran, Iran
2007 Winner Future Furniture Competition sponsored by Interior Design Magazine
Winning product: Chemical Light Fixture. Jury: Sergio Pelleroni and Cindy Allen
2004 Ball State University-School of Architecture, Faculty & Student Workshop: Muncie, IN,
September, 2004
Shelter and Beyond Exhibition featuring I-Beam Design’s “Pallet House†solution for transitional refugee housing on display at the Boston Architectural Center, Boston. MA.
2003 LEF Foundation Grant to develop and build refugee housing prototypes based on ideas initiated during the competition for transitional refugee housing organized by Architecture for Humanity in 1999.
2002 New York State Council on the Arts Grant in the Architecture, Planning and Design Program, to develop and build refugee housing prototypes based on ideas initiated during the competition for transitional refugee housing organized by Architecture for Humanity in 1999.
2000 7th Architecture Biennale, Venice Italy, Theme: LESS AESTHETICS, MORE ETHICS
Projects featured in catalog and on-line exhibit include I-Beam Design’s winning entry for the Petrosino Park
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