Lee H. Skolnick

Since the 1980s, Skolnick has been awarded Architectural Digest “AD100,” Cooper Union’s “John Q. Hejduk Award,” House & Garden's “Design Obsession,” the Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement from The Cooper Union, and local, state and national AIA Honor Awards including the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Long Island Chapter of the AIA. In 2003, Lee was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. He became an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK in 2007 and in 2009, he was inducted into Cooper Union Alumni Hall of Fame.

Lee Skolnick received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union in1979. He received the 2006 President's Citation and the 2012 recipient of the John Q. Hejduk Prize.  Lee Skolnick is also a Fellow has also been inducted into the College of Fellows of the AIA.

Lee attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, majoring in music and art. It was here, that Lee was first introduced to the profession of architecture and decided to pursue it as a career choice. Lee would go on to work on the construction of Arcosanti, a utopian community designed by the Italian architect, Paolo Soleri. In 1975, Skolnick entered the architecture program at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he studied under the Dean of the school, John Hejduk. Lee graduated with honors from the school in 1979. He worked for one year with the architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio before leaving to start his own firm in September 1980.

Lee H. Skolnick (born September 17, 1953 in New York City) is an architect and the Founding Partner and Design Principal of SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership, a New York-based design firm specializing in both cultural/institutional and private residential projects.