Associate Professor Jeremy Edmiston

Principal, SYSTEMarchitects
BA(Hons) (UTS), MScAAD (Col)

Associate Professor Jeremy Edmiston addressed graduates from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the Great Hall, City campus, University of Technology, Sydney on Monday 4 May 2009 at 2.30pm

Jeremy Edmiston is the principal at SYSTEMarchitects and an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at the City College of New York. He has been practicing, teaching and researching architecture in NewYork City for 18 years. Jeremy is an alumnus of UTS.

Originally from Sydney, Jeremy moved to the United States when he won a Fulbright, Harkness and the Byera Hadley scholarships. Early in his career, Jeremy worked in the offices of Harry Seidler, Bernard Tschumi and Emilio Ambasz.

SYSTEMarchitects, cofounded in 1997 with Douglas Gauthier, was established to explore how architecture might reflect and engage the wider culture, especially the overlap between the built and natural environment. Since its inception its schemes have won several awards and honors, including:

  • the McGraw-Hill Award 2008, for BURST*008, commissioned by Museum of Modern Art for the exhibition HOME DELIVERY: Fabricationg the Modern dwelling;
  • Royal Australian Institute of Architects Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture, 2006;
  • Finalist in 2006 forThe Ferrous Park Housing Competition; and
  • Finalist in 2006 for The Syracuse Connective Corridor Urban Design Competition.

Jeremy has won many honors including the Architectural League of New York's Young Architect Award, a Lindbergh Fellowship; and a Department of Energy's Center of Excellence Fellowship for his study into improving the environmental efficiency of high rise buildings. He has also taught at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, Parsons and Columbia University and has lectured at Yale, Columbia and Princeton, and at Bauhaus in Weimar in Germany.

Jeremy has contributed essays to Sites and Stations: Provisional Utopias, Techno-Fiction, and Yale Constructs. His research work on tall buildings was the focus of a symposium titled afterSHAFT soon to be published by Syracuse University.

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