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AWARDS

Architizer A+ Awards, Finalist, Unbuilt, Casa Horizonte, 2021

Best of Year (BOY) Award, Finalist, Pembroke, Interior Design Magazine, 2021

Best of Year (BOY) Award, Honoree, Casa Horizonte, Interior Design Magazine, 2020

Architizer A+ Awards, Finalist, Tree House Townhouse, 2019

Best of Year (BOY) Award, Finalist, Urban Townhouse, Interior Design Magazine, 2018

NYCxDESIGN Award, Townhouse, Interior Design Magazine, 2018

International Architecture Awards (IAA), Second Place, Architecture Podium, 2018

German Design Awards, Special Mention in Interior Architecture, 2018

International Interior Design Award (IIDA), Chilewich Store, Interior Design Magazine, 2015

Interiors Merit Award, Chilewich Store, American Institute of Architects (AIA), 2015

Best of Year (BOY) Award, Finalist, Avanti Dentistry, Interior Design Magazine, 2015

Innovation in Design Award, Architecture and Kitchen, Park Avenue Duplex, NYC&G, 2013

Innovation in Design Award, Interior Design, Perry Street Loft, CTC&G, 2013

Interiors Merit Award, Xocolatti, American Institute of Architect (AIANY), 2012

International Interior Design Award (IIDA), Xocolatti, Interior Design Magazine, 2012

20th Annual Will Ching Award, Xocolatti, Will Ching (WC), 2012

Interior Design Award (IDA), Xocolatti, Interior Design Magazine, 2012

Best of Year (BOY) Award, Interior Design Magazine, 2012

Annual Azure Award, Xocolatti, Azure, 2012

World Architecture News (WAN), Excellence in Design, 2011

Interiors Honor Award, American Institute of Architects (AIANY), Banchet Flowers, 2008

 

BOOKs

Interior Design’s Best in Design 2021, (2021)
1 st edn. Boca Raton, Florida: Sandow LLC

Brand Spaces: Branded Architecture and the Future of Retail Design, (2013)
1st edn. New York, NY: Gestalten

Designing Interior Architecture: Concept, Typology, Material, Construction, (2013)
Sylvia Leydecker (Ed.) 1st edn. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser

Holiday House Hamptons, (2013) 1st edn. New York: Holiday House

The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculations for Manhattan, (2012)
1st edn. Edited by Gregory Wessner. New York, NY: The Architectural League of NY

 

LECTURES

Farnaz Mansuri, “French-American Views: An Architecture Conversation.” For the exhibiton
AJAP | Les Albums des Jeunes Architectes et des Paysagistes.
AIA New York Chapter. July 2th 2013. Center for Architecture, New York, NY

Conversation with Robert Wennet, Developer, 1111 Lincoln Road and collaborator Farnaz
Mansuri, Assoc. AIA , 03.21.11, Center for Architecture, New York, NY

Organized and Moderated by Farnaz Mansuri, series “TOWARD “ANARCHITECTURE”:
A Conversation between Architects and Artists

AIANY New Practices Committee, September 29, 2009, Center for Architecture New York, NY
Joe MacDonald — Founder Urban A&O; Mark Foster Gage — Principal Gage/Clemenceau Architects;
David Marcus Abir — Artist & Composer; Alex Amini — Artist; Ula Einstein — Artist

AIANY New Practices Committee, November 11, 2009, Center for Architecture New York, NY
Joseph Grima — Director, Storefront for Art & Architecture; Alanna Heiss — Founder, Art
Radio WPS1.org; Katrin Sigurdardottir — Artist; Didier Faustino — Architect; Chris Perry —
Partner, Servo; James Angus — Artist

AIANY New Practices Committee, December 22, 2009, Center for Architecture New York, NY
Conversation moderated by Farnaz Mansuri
Dan Graham Artist, Vito Acconci Artist and James Wines-Site Architecture

 

EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition of Project ‘xocolatti’. Center for Architecture,
536 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012, Summer 2012

The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculation for Manhattan (2011). Museum of the City of New York,
New York, NY. January 2012 – April 2012