E D U C A T I O N
Princeton University Graduate School of Architecture, (SOA) Princeton NJ, 2003-2005
Degree: Master in Architecture II, M. Arch II w. Distinction
The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, New York, NY, 1998-2003
Degree: Accredited Bachelors in Architecture, B. Arch. w. Honorary Distinction
S I G N I F I C A N T B U I L T P R O J E C T S
**full project portfolios can be provided upon request
Veledar Works, Founder, New York, NY [2013 – Present]
Domestic Objects, 2020-23
Residence 15, 1105 Park Avenue - II, New York, NY, 3,000SF, 2021
Residence 14, 1101 Park Avenue - II, New York, NY, 3,000SF, 2020
Residence 13, 91 Central Park West, New York, NY, 2,400SF, 2019-2020
Residence 12, 215 West 95th Street, New York, NY, 3,500SF, 2019
Residence 11, 110 Riverside Drive, New York, NY, 3,500SF, 2018
Residence 10, 1125 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 3,000SF, 2018
Residence 9, 37 Riverside Drive Duplex, New York, NY, 6,000SF, 2018
Residence 8, 101 Central Park West, New York, NY, 3,000SF, 2017-2018
Residence 7, 1105 Park Avenue - I, New York, NY, 3,000SF, 2017
Residence 6, 33 East 70th Street, New York,, 2,000SF, 2016
Residence 5, 1105 Park Avenue Street, New York, NY, 3,500SF, 2015
Residence 4, 55 E. 72nd Street, New York, NY, 3,000SF, 2014
Residence 3, 4 E. 72nd Street, New York, NY, 4,000SF, 2014
Residence 2, 1220 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 3,000SF 2013,2014
Residence 1, 129 E. 69th Street, New York, NY, 2,000SF, 2013,2014
The Protagonist , Installation with Artist Tim Richardson.tv, Visionare World, NY, 2014
30 Artists, 30 Days Winter Wonderland, Visionare World, New York, NY, 2013
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP, New York, NY [2006-2012]
Designer at Roger Duffy Education Lab Design Studio
PS62R Net Zero Energy School, School Constr. Authority Staten Island, NY (68,000 SF Schematic: Construction Documents), 2011-2012
Elizabeth Academic High School, School Develop. Authority, Elizabeth, NJ (183,000 SF Construction Documents), 2009
Abu Dhabi Educational Council Headquarters, ADEC Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Competition), 2007
High School of Art & Design, Primary School 59, 250 E. 57th St. New York, NY (104,380 SF Design Development), 2006,2007, 2010
Ali Al Sabah Kuwait Academy Master Plan and Mosque, Kuwait (1,200,000 SF Concept Design), 2010
Lisbon International Airport, Lisbon, Portugal (800,000 SF Competition, 1st place), 2009
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, India (2,200,000 SF Design Development, Construction Documents), 2008,2009
Pulkovo International Airport, (900,000 SF Competition, 2nd Place), 2007
James Turrell Skyscraper Museum Canopy Addition, New York City, NY (Concept Design), 2008
OberoiGarden City Apartments, Oberoi, India (300,000 SF Concept Design), 2008
Poddar House Towers, Poddar, India (500,000 SF Concept Design), 2008
LODHA Wadala Mixed Use Supertall Tower and Midrise Residential Complex, India (400,000 SF Concept Design) , 2008
SOM Journal 5, Associate Editor w. Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, Francesco Dal Co, 2008
SOM Evening Lecture Series, Curator (Art, Architecture, Engineering), 2009-2011
T E A C H I N G & C R E A T I V E L E A D E R S H I P
The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, New York, NY [Fall 2005- Present]
Assistant Professor, Proportional Time Resident Faculty
Summer Program [100 students in total] 2023 - Coordinator and Program Director
Year 3 Building Integrated Studio: Blurring Boundaries - Baltimore w/ Tehrani, Ames, Spring 2023 - Coordinator
Year 1 Architectonics: Figures and Solids, Fall 2022 w/ Blacksher, Lowder
Summer Program [97 students in total] 2022 - Coordinator and Program Director
Year 4 Options Studio, “Playful Objects: Prototyping Novel Elemental Constructions in Central Park”, taught by Mersiha Veledar 2022
Year 1, “Architectonic Double” w/ Baab, Espinosa, 2021
Summer Program [126 students in total], 2021 - Coordinator and Program Director
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio “Housing Los Angeles” w/ Javidi, Makeka and Ames, 2021
Year 1, Architectonics “Masked Rituals” w/ Baab, Aranda, de Oca, 2020
Summer Program [76 students in total], 2020 - Coordinator and Program Director
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio, “Housing between Material IndeXes” w/ Rustow, Vanable, Anderson, Helbig, 2019
Year 1, Architectonics, “Experiments in Points, Lines and Volumes” w/ Aranda, Rowen, 2019 - Coordinator
Summer Program [42 students in total] 2019, Coordinator and Program Director
Year 5, Thesis Advisor, Rabinowitz and Sol, Received Thesis Awards, 2018
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio, “Housing New York: Re-Configuring Homelessness” - Coordinator
[w/ HELP USA], Coordinator, w/Carnicero, Eber, Helbig, Anderson
Year 1, Architectonics, “Material IndeXes” w/ Lowder, Iturbe, Bragado, 2018
M. Arch. II Graduate Thesis: “Towards a New [Hypo]Thesis” [Published by Gotham to Go, Art and Culture], 2018 - Coordinator
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio: “Housing in the Aftermath of a Disaster”, Travelling Studio
w/ del Rio, Bone, Anderson & University of Puerto Rico, [Published by Architectural Record, NADAA and The Cooper Union] , 2018
Year 1, Architectonics, ‘“Animate Architectonics: Structural Configurations between Points, Lines and Volumes” w/ Vobis, Tsien - Coordinator
[Recipient of The Studio Prize by Architect Magazine; Published by Architect Magazine, NADAA, Cooper Union], 2017
Year 5, Thesis Advisor w/ Kogod, Daniel Hall [RIBA Thesis Silver Medal Award for World’s Best Projects - Published NADAA, Cooper Union, Bustler and Dezeen], 2017
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio, “Analysis and Architectural Design, Mexico City” Travelling Studio w/ Young, Pendas, Anderson, Shi, 2016
Year 1, Architectonics, “Doors, Windows, Skylights, Columns, Stairs”, w/ Dean Nader Tehrani, Romanos, Longenbach, 2016 - Coordinator
Advanced Seminar: Urbanism of Global Elements, B. Arch and M. Arch. II students, 2016
Year 1, Architectonics, “Doors, Windows, Skylights, Columns, Stairs” w/ Romanos, Longenbach [Published by NYC X Design], 2015 - Coordinator
Advanced Seminar: Urbanism of Global Elements B. Arch and M. Arch. II students, 2014
Year 1, “Architectonics: Elemental Configurations”, w/ Romanos, Miron [curated for NYC X Design Week at The Cooper Union], 2014 - Coordinator
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio “Analysis and Architectural Design - Libraries” w/ Rustow, Allin, Anderson, 2013
Year 4, Urbanism Studio “On The Bowery” w/ Lewis, Meridor, Shubert , Sherer [The Young Kiesler Award Grant], 2013
Year 3, Building Integrated Studio “Analysis and Architectural Design - Libraries” w/ Rustow, Kallipoliti, Allin, Anderson, 2012
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Templum, New York w/ Lewis, Meridor, Shubert, Sherer, 2012
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Ground w/ Zuliani, Lorenzo-Eiroia, 2011
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Civic Framework, New York w/ Lewis, Shubert , Tsao, Meridor, 2010
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: The Void w/ Lewis, Shubert and Sherer, 2009
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Tower Acropolis w/ ewis, Shubert and Sherer, 2008
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: 21st Century University w/ Lebbeus Woods, 2008
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Art City Structure Space-Block w/ Lewis, Shubert, Sherer, Tsang, 2007
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: The Wall Game w/ Lebbeus Woods, 2007
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Disaster Architecture Inspired by the Cities of Catastrophe from Atlantis to Hiroshima, Architecture for Post-flood New Orleans
w/ Lewis, Shubert, Sherer, 2006
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Domus Locus Spatium Limine w/ Lewis, Shubert, Windeck, 2006
Year 4 Urbanism Studio: Architectural Verticality w/ Lebbeus Woods, 2005
The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, New York, NY [Summer 2019- Present]
Summer Program[s] Director and Coordinator
Introduction to Architecture and Portfolio Development for College and Pre-College Students
* responsible for daily curriculum calendar, assignments and workshops for 100-130 students
* program tripled in size and generates around 400K annually, since joining and restructuring it
* responsible for hiring and training needs, providing work opportunities for B. Arch and M. Arch students to gain teaching experience
Committee Work
Administrative Dean’s Committee, 2021-2023
Senate Committee, 2019-2022
Undergraduate Admissions Chair, 2017-2023
Graduate Admissions Committee, 2016-2017
Curriculum Committee (NAAB), 2015-2017
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark [2009 + 2018]
Architecture can Heal: Universal Elements and The Common Ground Workshop and Lecture, 2018
Masters Program Sarajevo Workshop w/ Anne Romme, 2009
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College [2012]
Inside Central Park: The Ramble w/ Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, 2012
E D I T O R A N D C U R A T O R
Towards a New [Hypo]Thesis Exhibition Curator, The Cooper Union 2018
SOM Journal 5 Associate Editor w/ Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, Francesco Dal Co, 2008
UIA Berlin, XXI World Congress of Architecture Exhibition Curator, Messegelände Mitte, Berlin w. Diane Lewis, 2002
‘Rome, Berlin, New York - The Literary Dimension of the City’ Editor, Published by the Cooper Union w. Diane Lewis, 2002
C O N F E R E N C E S A N D L E C T U R E S
Symposium: Nuance and Intimacy in Civic Space, The Cooper Union [w/ Scott Cohen, Nader Tehrani, Pippo Chiora] – April 9, 2022
Pedagogies of Risk and Control; KADK [Denmark] in Conversation with The Cooper Union, Panelist - September 22, 2019
In Conversation: Female Catalysts: Elizabeth O’Donnell and Mersiha Veledar - The Cooper Union, Panelist - March 19, 2019
Women in Architecture, interview by Eva Geitel, Vice Chairman, Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA], Interview - February 10, 2019
Architecture of Healing - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Copenhagen, Lecture - May 31, 2018
Open Cities: 2018 ACSA/COAM Madrid International Conference, Panelist - June 14-16, 2018
Gallery Roundtable: Architecture Between Environmental Change and Planning Resilience, The Cooper Union, Panelist, 2018
Open City Symposium, (Day 2) Titus Theater - MoMA, Panelist, 2015
Open City Symposium, (Day 1) The New Museum, Panelist, 2015
In Celebration of Lebbeus Woods: The Cooper Union Great Hall Symposium, Panelist, 2014
Faculty Evening Lecture Series – Mersiha Veledar, Lecture – February 10, 2013
Architecture can Heal, All Departments Evening Lecture at the Royal Academy School of Architecture, Copenhagen, 2009
E X H I B I T I O N S
Mana Contemporary - Conceiving the Plan: Healing Objects, Monira Foundation - January 31, 2023
Un-War Exhibition, Inside Out: Body Figures and Limits, Self, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT June 13 – October 28, 2022
Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space, The Cooper Union: Healing Objects April 7 - April 29, 2022
Pedagogies of Risk, Control and Productive Failure: Playful Objects, Royal Academy in Copenhagen:, supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, 2022
Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space: Healing Objects - Venice Biennale [Italian Pavilion], October 8th - November 22, 2021
Linee Occulte Exhibition, Domestic Objects and Traces - New York, 2021
Archive & Artifact: Virtual & Physical: Architecture can Heal: Universal Elements and The Common Ground, Cooper Union 2018
The Great White Whale is Black: Vertical Gardens and SpaceFrames - The Cooper Union, 2010
Cultural Territories: Architecture can Heal and The Universal Elements - Gallerie fűr Zeitgenǒssische Kunst Leipzig, 2005
XXI World Congress of Architecture/UIA, International Fare Messegelände and Mitte: Stolen Obelisks - Berlin, Germany, 2002
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Nuance and Intimacy in The Construction of Civic Space: Healing Objects, pgs. 98-99 by Mersiha Veledar, SKIRA 2022
Linee Occulte Exhibition, Architect’s Newspaper, 2021
Linee Occulte Drawing Architecture, The Cooper Union, 2021
ACSA: The New Instrumentalities Publication, Healing the City: Elemental Constructions and the Universal Language of Architecture, 2018
Shelter from the Storm: Cooper Architects in Puerto Rico, by Cooper Union and NADAAA Blog, 2018
Architecture Studios Incorporate Resiliency into Their Designs, by Erin Hudson / Architectural Record, 2018
RIBA President's Medals for World's Best Projects, RIBA Journal 125, ArchDaily, Dezeen Magazine, Bustler, 2018
ARCHITECT Magazine Studio Prize, Mersiha Veledar, 2018
Open City, An Existential Approach by Charta Books, ISBN-10:888158882X, pgs. 9 10, 197 (Architecture of Healing Essay), 29-213 (Years of Teaching), 2015
30 Artists, 30 Days, Visionare World, Mersiha Veledar Artist, 2013
Fortnight Journal – Edition 3, Mersiha Veledar Video-Stories on path of Survival from a War Torn Country, 2012
Design in 5’ - Sketch 120, Urban Omnibus & New York Architectural League, 2012
Architects Draw: Freehand Fundamentals, Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN-10: 1568987404 (Drawings p.159) 2008
Bio MACHINE Projet, Catálogos de Arquitectura, Nº. 20, 2007, ISSN 1138-2430 pgs. 130-133, 2007
Architecture can Heal ,Thesis publication, Photography Now, Nr. 1.05, 2005
Balkan Urbanismus, Die bosnische Chronik Die Zukunft ist nicht, was sie einmal WAR’ ‘Architecture can Heal’ Publication, iSBN 3-88375-925-2, 2005, p. 364,365, 384-389
Body Book, by The Cooper Union, “Inside”, NJ the Garden ‘Garden’ State-6000 Brownfields, p. 64, 65, 141, 2005
Architecture can Heal , Thesis publication , Camera Austria, Nr.88, 2004
Architecture can Heal , Ein Architektur-Novum, Sϋdwest Presse, 25 November 2004
Architecture can Heal , StadtBauwelt, (48/04), Mersiha Veledar, Neue Generation Architekt, 23 December, 2004
Cooper Magazine Spring Edition, Mersiha Veledar Interview, 2003
Irma Giustino Weiss Prize, p. 20-24,’Architecture can Heal’ Thesis Project and War Architecture Research Cooper Union Magazine
Text, Intertext, Context: The Literary Dimension of the City: Rome, Berlin, New York, Cooper Union Publication, 2002
A W A R D S A N D F E L L O W S H I P S
ARCHITECT Magazine Studio Prize, Mersiha Veledar, 2018
‘Design in 5’ Competition Winner - Sketch 120: Greenpoint Edition, in collaboration with Fiyel Levent, 2011
Irma Giustino Weiss Thesis Award & Traveling Fellowship awarded to one Cooper Union Graduate who demonstrates the greatest potential for future success upon the receipt of a Bachelor’s Degree from The School of Architecture, Recipient ($15,000), 2003
George Ledlie Fund Annual Prize by the Cooper Union ($1,000), 2003
The AIA New York Chapter & The New York Foundation for Architecture Grants and Scholarships, 2002
Architectural Auxiliary Eleanor Allwork Scholarship Grant, Recipient ($3,000), 2001
AIA/AAF Scholarship for First Professional Degree Candidates, Recipient ($2,000), 2001
Richter Memorial Fund Scholarship, Recipient ($1,000), 1998
The Cooper Union Scholarship, Recipient ($125,000), 1998
S K I L L S
3d Max Studio (V Ray) , AutoCAD, Rhino, Revit Architecture, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office
L A N G U A G E S
Fluent: English, Bosnian [and most former Yugoslavian Languages]
Preliminary: Italian, Danish