Martin Kropac
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Department: Architecture
Campuses: New York City, Long Island
Area(s) of Expertise: Architectural Design, Urban Planning
Education Credentials: Dipl.Ing.Arch., M.S.A.A.D., Ph.D. candidate
Industry Credentials: EU Registered Architect
Joined New York Tech: 2013
Martin Kropac received his postgraduate degree in architecture at Columbia University in New York after studying architecture at Kansas State University and Czech Technical University in Prague. He has studied and worked in the studio of Alberto Campo Baeza in Madrid. He is the winner of the ABF Young Architect Award 2009 as well as several scholarships including a Columbia research grant to study the modern Brazilian architecture of Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas. Martin is currently working in New York at Steven Holl Architects and teaching at the School of Architecture and Design at New York Tech. Kropac is a licensed architect in the Czech Republic and a doctoral candidate at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Recent Projects/Research
- Parallel Porosity. Translucency in Modern Architecture. 2014–2018
- The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Expansion (with Steven Holl Architects)
- Institute For Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA (with Steven Holl Architects)
- Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University (with Steven Holl Architects)
- Natural History Museum, Copenhagen (with Steven Holl Architects)
Publications
- GSAPP Abstract
- Potlatch, Columbia University Journal
- Era 21
- Made in New York
- 7+7+7 Kairos
Honors and Awards
- 1st Prize Young Architect Award 2009
- Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize 2010
- Finalist Fulnek Nursery 2014
- TONLAB residency award 2014
- First Prize Cultural Center Sternberk 2014
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- Design Fundamentals 1
- Design Fundamentals 2
- Design II
- Design III
- Design IV
- Design V