Edgar Papazian is a licensed architect in New York and Oregon and holds an NCARB certificate, allowing practice of architecture in most locales.

Credentials

Edgar Berj Papazian was born in St. Etienne, France and grew up on Long Island in New York. He holds a Bachelors of Art in Architecture from Columbia University and a Masters in Architecture from Yale University, where he won the Drawing Prize and the James Gamble Rogers Scholarship.

Edgar has developed a professional specialization in design, detailing, and delineation of institutional cultural projects. He has worked with the architects Cesar Pelli and Associates, 1100 Architect, Ogawa/Depardon, the Polshek Partnership (The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center, The New York Hall of Science), and most recently with SANAA and Gensler (The New Museum of Contemporary Art). He has taught architectural design in the schools of architecture at Pratt Institute and the New Jersey Institute of Technology and has been a guest critic at Columbia University (graduate and undergraduate), Yale University, Parsons School of Design, the City University of New York, N.J.I.T., and Pratt. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

Current curriculum vitae: edgar_CV_1_2010.pdf