Aurelie Paradiso Design is a New York City based multi‐disciplinary design studio established in January 2013 by Principal Aurelie Paradiso following a ten year tenure with the award‐winning architecture firm of TodWillliams Billie Tsien Architects. In the last year and a half, Ms. Paradiso has built a carefully curated team of designers, architects, and extended network of consultants, artists and craftspeople to provide integrated and comprehensive design solutions from landscapes to buildings to
interiors to custom furniture and hardware.
The studio’s current projects include a new 6800SF mixed‐use retail and residential building in Bridgehampton, NY and two 3000+ square foot New York City residential gut renovations. These projects are currently in the design stages or in construction.
Each project is a close collaboration with the client and each project has a distinctive voice, tailored to the client’s specific needs and aspirations. The work is unified by a commitment to exceptional design,
craft, and efficient project management. Ms. Paradiso’s work is rooted in her attention to detail and an emphasis on materiality, texture and light. She aspires to work that is thoughtfully cohesive, functional and uplifting, innovative and timeless.
Ms. Paradiso’s design and construction experience while at Williams and Tsien was extensive and formative. Her design sensibility both informed and was informed by the work of the firm. Her contributions include design and project management leadership on a new 38,000SF Church and community outreach center in downtown Washington, D.C; the design of a 27,000SF new exhibition, educational facility and urban roof plaza for Asia Society, Hong Kong Center; and leading an urban design competition for the redevelopment of the Toronto Waterfront, where the firm was one of five finalists chosen for the project. Prior to Williams and Tsien, Ms. Paradiso worked for two other notable firms: Gwathmey Siegel Architects in New York and Kleihues und Kleihues Architecten in Berlin, Germany.
Ms. Paradiso received her Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from Columbia College and her Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Concurrent with her practice, Ms. Paradiso is also part‐time faculty at Parsons the New School for Design School of Constructed Environments Graduate Program. She has taught in the undergraduate and SPACE programs at Parsons. She has been invited as a guest design critic at Wesleyan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Pratt Institute and New York Institute of Technology.
Through her dedication to design excellence and community service, Ms. Paradiso has pursued opportunities to create and contribute to arts based organizations. Most recently, working pro‐bono with a group of her students from Parsons, she designed and constructed a ten foot tall by eight foot wide sectional model of the 1966 Jewish Museum building and Primary Structures exhibition, on view during the Jewish Museum’s Other Primary Structures shows last winter and spring 2014.
Ms. Paradiso was born in Switzerland to a Swiss‐French mother and Italian father, carries three passports (Swiss, Italian and US), speaks three languages, and has called New York home since 1981 when she moved to the US with her family as a child. She is a frequent traveler allowing the rich history and culture of visited places to inform her work and teaching.
