PAUL GATES

Paul Gates is an architect with over twenty five years of experience in a wide range of projects. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from The University of Southern California in 1976, and a Master of Architecture degree with honors from Princeton University in 1982.

Prior to forming Gates Merkulova Architects, Mr. Gates has worked for The Architectural Collective in Los Angeles, and for Paul Segal Associates and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in New York. As an Associate Partner with Kohn Pedersen Fox, he was Senior Designer for a number of major office and mixed use projects in the United States and abroad. Two of these projects have won prestigious awards. In 1986, Station Center in White Plains won a Design Award from Progressive Architecture Magazine and an Architectural Project Award from the New York Chapter of the A.I.A. In 1988, Rockefeller Plaza West won a Design Citation from Progressive Architecture Magazine. In 1993, Mr. Gates turned his attention fully to private practice.

Mr. Gates has taught at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and has served as a critic on architectural juries at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the Rhode Island School of Design. His work was included in the Terminal New York exhibition in 1983, and projects he has designed for Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates have been exhibited at the GA Gallery in Tokyo in 1987, the National Academy of Design in New York in 1987, and at the Grand Halle de La Villette in Paris in 1990.

In 1985, Mr. Gates was a founding member of The Society of Young Architects, a group formed for the discussion of current ideas in architecture at The National Arts Club. In 1993, Architecture + Urbanism magazine published his article entitled, "Deus Ex Machina: Architecture and the Electronic Media".

Paul Gates is a Registered Architect in the States of New York and New Jersey.