C. G. Beck

EDUCATION

The New School for Social Research, Graduate courses in Philosophy & Capitalism Studies, 2022-present

Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Architecture, 2016

University of Maryland, College Park, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2010

PRACTICE + PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Registered Architect, NY State, License No. 042946

Project Architect | Bernheimer Architecture, Brooklyn NY, 2018-present

Architectural Designer | Thread Collective, Brooklyn NY, 2018

Architectural Designer | Architecture Research Office, New York NY, 2018

Designer | Guy Nordenson and Associates, New York NY, 2017-2018

Designer & Drafter | Freelance, 2012-present

Architectural Intern | 3SIX0 Architecture, Providence RI, 2014

Work-Site Manager (AmeriCorps) | Project Homecoming, New Orleans LA, 2010-2013

TEACHING + ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

The New School - Parsons | Adjunct Faculty, New York NY, 2021-present

+Graduate Architecture: Design Studio I

+First Year Program: Integrative Seminar I & II

CUNY - City Tech | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Brooklyn NY, 2020-2022

+Architecture: Foundations Studio

+Architecture: Foundations Visual Studies

Rhode Island School of Design | Instructor, Providence RI, 2014-2016

+Experimental Drawing

+Pre-College Architecture Program

+Architectural Drawing

DownCity Design | Design Educator, Providence RI, 2014

+Boys & Girls Club Work-force Development

+PASA Summer Scholars Program

PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH + LECTURES

Designers Can Help Build a Stronger Labor Movement, Op-Ed, The Progressive, 2024

How Workers at the First Unionized Architecture Firm in NYC (and the Country) Won a 36-Hour Workweek, Interview, Hellgate, 2024

What the Bernheimer Architecture Union learned from UTOPIA and the writer’s strike, with Je Siqueira, Architect’s Newspaper, 2023

Architects are Starting to See Themselves as Workers, Jacobin, 2023

Unionization in Architecture, Panelist, RISD Professional Practice Course, 2023

A Material Imagination in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Lecture, University of Wisconsin Architecture Department Graduate Colloquium, 2023

Raising Standards in the Architectural Industry, Panelist, DPE (AFL-CIO), 2022

“We’re Not Trying to Shut Down the Firm," Interview, Curbed/New York Magazine, 2022

Dancing with the Machine, Dispatches Magazine, Issue 03, 2022

Perspectival Analysis of “The Los Angeles Count Museum on Fire” (Ed Ruscha), Drawing, in Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s by Jennifer Quick, 2022

Tracing, Yale Paprika, Vol. 07 Issue 01, 2021

Buildings, Information and Machines, Yale Paprika, Vol. 06 Issue 01, 2020

Plastic Prison, Tomb of Waste, Switch Competitions Editor’s Choice, 2020

Essential Architecture, The New York Review of Architecture, 2020

An Absurdity in Architecture, See/Saw Issue 2 (UMD Architecture), 2019

Campus Guide: Amherst College, Illustrative Map, 2019

Compliant: An Exhibition on Bedrooms and Building Codes, Citygroup New York NY, 2019

Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio: The Only Primer You’ll Ever Need, paintings featured in. Ed. by Margaret Fletcher, 2017

Formation of the Gnomon. Group Exhibit. 2016 RISD Summer Show, Providence RI, 2016

Harvard Gates, Harvard Yard Illustrative map, 2016

Work in Progress Issue 17, Editor for RISD Architecture publication, 2015-2016

Computectonics, Research Assistant for Professor Carl Lostritto (RISD), 2015

Cartesia, Terris Mundi, 2015

The Is of Drawing/USPS Warehouse. Group Exhibit, RISD Summer Faculty Show, 2016

Exchange. RISD Alumni Travel Award Publication, July 2015

INVITED DESIGN REVIEWS & ACADEMIC SERVICE

University of Tennessee Architecture Final Reviews (Ted Shelton, Diploma Studio, Mark Stanley, B.Arch Self-Directed Project Studio, Scott Poole, 2nd-year B.Arch Studio, Kevin Stevens, 4th-year B.Arch Studio)

Parsons School of Design, First Year Program (Aviva Schulman, Integrated Studio)

City College Spitzer School of Architecture (Demir Purisic, Core Studio 1)

CUNY City Tech, Admissions Committee

CUNY City Tech (Claudia Hernandez Studio, Core Studio)

CUNY City Tech (John DiSalvo, Core Studio)

Parsons School of Design (Andrew Bernheimer/Peter Robinson/David Gissen, Thesis)

Parsons School of Design (Andrew Bernheimer, Housing Studio)

Parsons School of Design (Andrew Bernheimer, Drawing Seminar)

RISD Architecture, Faculty Search Committee

RISD Architecture (Celeste Martinez, Mengcen Shen, Sunny Zhag Seminar, Film Seminar)

RISD Architecture (Kyna Leski Studio, Design Principles Studio)

RISD Architecture (Rebecca McGee, Design Principles Studio)

HONORS & AWARDS

Stewardson Keefe Lebrun Travel Grant – AIA New York, 2019

AIA Rhode Island Scholarship Winner, 2014-2015, 2015-2016

RISD Fellowship & Scholarship, 2013-2016

Eli Segal Education Award, 2010-2012

UMD Kiplin Study Abroad Scholarship, 2010