YAMA KARIM
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Experience
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Studio Libeskind
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Architecture and Planning
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1 - 100 Employee
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Partner
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Apr 2003 - Present
Before joining the staff of Studio in 2003 in New York, Yama Karim had already collaborated with Daniel Libeskind for several years in the late 1990s in Berlin. He has brought extraordinary experience to the Studio, having served first as a senior designer at Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects) where he worked on the Brown Fine Arts Center at Smith College, Massachusetts and the Sarah Lawrence College Monica A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center, New York, among others. He also worked at Reiser + Umemoto (RUR) in New York, where he served on the team for the Yokohama Port Terminal in Yokohama, Japan. He is currently managing the master plan and development of the former fairgrounds in Milan, Italy, as well as the residential complex Corals on Keppel Bay located on the waterfront in Singapore. Mr. Karim has taught full-time at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and as a visiting professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Architecture in 1995 and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design in 1991. Yama speaks English and Farsi. Show less
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Education
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UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Architecture -
Columbia University in the City of New York
Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture -
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Environmental Design -
Columbia University in the City of New York
Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture