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Toni Stabile Student Center, Columbia U. - Karen Fairbanks and Scott Marble
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Karen Fairbanks and Scott Marble, architects at Marble Fairbanks and professors at Columbia University, discuss their renovations of the Graduate School of Journalism. The architects wanted to create a space that was better suited to the changing needs of today's journalism students and professors.
Karen Fairbanks Karen Fairbanks is a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks, where her work includes educational, institutional, and residential projects. Prior to forming Marble Fairbanks, she worked on award-winning educational and institutional projects at firms in New York City and Boston. Karen received her Master of Architecture Degree from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the University of Michigan.
Karen Fairbanks is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture at Barnard College. She is Chair of the Architecture department, teaching architecture design studios and courses on architecture and technology at Barnard and Columbia Colleges since 1989.
Scott Marble Scott Marble is a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks and a faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). His early engagement with digital technologies at Columbia University, teaching one of the first "paperless" design studios, has allowed Marble Fairbanks to pioneer innovative uses of digital fabrication and unique assemblies in their design work.
Scott is a frequent lecturer in the areas of digital technologies and building information modeling (BIM). As a faculty member at the GSAPP, Scott advances the development of new digital design and fabrication techniques through independent projects and architectural design studios. He is also the Director of the Avery Digital Fabrication Lab and Director of the Columbia Building Intelligence Project Integrated Design Studios.