Christopher Sharples, AIA

Principal
SHoP Architects / SHoP Construction

Lecture Title: Out of Practice

Monday, December 5, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Cripe Paul Inc. sponsored lecture

Christopher Sharples received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1990). In 1988 he established SHoP Architects PC with his four partners in New York City. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, The City College, City University of New York, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University and at the University of Virginia as Shure Professor of Architecture and as Louis I. Kahn Assistant Visiting Professor for Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. Mr. Sharples is NCARB-certified and registered architect in the State of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Washington D.C.

SHoP Architects was recently awarded the 2009 Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian Institute’s National Design Award in Architecture, the 2008 SBIC Beyond Green High Performance Building Award for their design of Garden street Lofts in Hoboken, NJ, and a 2007 Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award for their design of the East River Waterfront Park in Lower Manhattan. SHoP has also been recognized for their design of The Porter House in New York with a 2005 AIANY Housing Design Award, a 2005 AIANY Honor Award in Architecture, and a 2005 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. In addition, SHoP was awarded the 2001 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the 2001 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York and the 2003 Rave Award in Architecture from Wired Magazine.

Their current work includes a two-mile waterfront park along New York’s East River, and projects for the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, and Google in Mountain View, CA, the Barclays Arena in Brooklyn NY, and Botswana Innovation Hub in Botswana Africa. Recently completed projects include Garden Street Lofts in Hoboken, NJ, Hangil Book House for the Heyri Art Valley in Seoul, South Korea, The Porter House in New York City, and SanLiTun in Beijing.