Faculty Profile

Aleksandr Mergold is a registered architect in New York State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, member of the American Institute of Architects, holds an NCARB certification and is a LEED Accredited Professional. Coming from a family with two generations of architects, Aleks attended Princeton and Cornell University, receiving the NY chapter AIA and the Charles Goodwin Sands medals. After working for several large architecture firms (Perkins Eastman Architects, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects) he joined the office of Pentagram in New York where he spent six years as senior architect, working on a variety of architectural and design projects. Since 2006 Aleksandr has been teaching at Parsons the New School for Design; in 2007 he was visiting faculty at Listaháskóli Íslands / Iceland Academy of the Arts. In 2007 Aleksandr Mergold along with Jason Austin (B.Arch. '00) had established architecture and landscape design practice – Austin + Mergold LLC. Aleksandr is also a founding partner of MERA – a multi-disciplinary design practice established in 1997 in New York City specializing in interiors, product and graphic design.

• Curriculum Vitae
• Austin + Mergold LLC
• MERADESIGN
• Pentagram