1207 Delaware Drive
Matamoras PA 18336
c- 845-800-2937
john_meder[at]hotmail.com (note ‘underscore’ b/t first and last names)
johnmeder[at]optonline.net
The Rockwell Group, New York. Senior Project Manager/Team Leader for European Projects.
The Planet Hollywood/ITT Sheraton Casino, Las Vegas, NV. Led competition-winning entry for Casino-Hotel-Convention Center.
Designer and/or Project Manager for Planet Hollywoods located in Cannes, Dublin, London (Bar), Marbella, Prague, Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Boston, Ft. Lauderdale, Gurnee Mills, Key West, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.
JP Architects/Interior Forum, Bangkok, Thailand. Founding Partner.
80 room Buddhist Retreat, Kaengkrachen, Thailand
Southern Hills Golf Resort, Songkla, Thailand. Master planning for 3000 acre PGA Resort and Conference Center.
Plantation House in Fang, Thailand.
General Contractor for Delaney’s Irish Pub, Bangkok.
EDUCATION:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Design. Master of Architecture. Thesis: ‘Edges, Limits and Geographies of Uncertainty- an Architecture informed by its landscape’.
9.74-5.79 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. NYC. Bachelor of Architecture.
HONORS:
Elected Thomas Jefferson Fellow to the University of Virginia. Sabbatical from teaching responsibilities to do one year of research.
Harvard University. Masters degree awarded with a special commendation for excellence.
The Cooper Union. Awarded the Cooper Union Alumni Association Award.
RESEARCH:
‘Mr. Jefferson’s Academical Village Revisited’. Research funded by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to create a detailed master plan for the campus, comprising of 40 acres and creating a new ‘Cultural Acropolis’ atop Carr’s Hill.
The following constructions are primarily formal investigations into visual and aesthetic theory, yet each can be described as a piece of furniture in function.
Astor Place Station: a type of tall clock
A house for Lilliput- a portal’s keystone. Installed at the Coach House, Chattanooga, TN. Collection of Cynthia and Stroud Watson. A Tennessee Landscape. Coffee table. In the permanent collection of the Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN.
Der Augenblick. A mantle clock and mirror.
COMPETITIONS:
The Little Theatre of Chattanooga, TN. National competition for a large scale, multi use dramatic theatre, housing, marina and office complex. Awarded first prize in association with Schwartz-Kinnard Architects.
Author and judge of the following competitions:
A museum for Lewis and Clark. Virginia AIA annual student competition.
A child’s playhouse. University of Virginia annual competition.
WRITTEN WORK:
A Catalog Raisonee of Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, Frederick D.
Nichols- author. Mario di Valmarana, Robert Vickery and John Meder, co-editors.
John Meder- researcher.
Macmillian Dictionary of Art: The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson. Frederick D.
Nichols- author. John Meder- editor and researcher.
Modulus 18: Lost Horizons- The Abandoned Cubist Elevation. The University of Virginia Architectural Review.
The University of Tennessee Journal of Architecture: A Figurative Appeal.
“For’m†Magazine: On John Hejduk. Harvard University Press.
LECTURES:
Historical Societies of the Virginia Piedmont. ‘Renovating Historic Properties and the Americans with disabilities act’. Keynote speaker. Arizona State University. ‘Recent work’.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute- ‘Architecture and the Landscape’. The Smithsonian Institute- ‘The American Artifact: The Lawn at the University of Virginia- Interpretation of the found object’. Also served as a participant on the panel: ‘Assessing the use of the artifact in the Urban Landscape’. The University of Virginia: Jefferson Fellow Lecture.
The Smithsonian Institute- ‘The Academical Village Reconsidered’. Also served as a participant on the panel: ‘The Landscape and the City’.
ACSA Annual Meeting. Delivered the annual design lecture. Tulane University Architect’s week. Delivered the keynote lecture on recent work.
ACSA Northeast Annual meeting. Delivered the annual design lecture.
The Catholic University- ‘Pure Form and Pure Formation’.
EXHIBITS:
The University of Virginia. ‘The Academical Village Reconsidered’.
The University of Tennessee Gallery. ‘Recent Work’.
The University of Tennessee Gallery. ‘Three Groups of Canal Houses’.
The Cooper Union. ‘Three Groups of Canal Houses’.
GUEST CRITIC:
Columbia University Rhode Island School of Design
Harvard University Syracuse University
The University of the Arts Tulane University
Princeton University Arizona State University
REGISTRATION AND LICENSES:
82-present New York State Architecture License #15967 (inactive status)
Virginia Architecture License #6771 (inactive status)
91- present Virginia State licensed builder
Virginia Licensed Realtor. Specialized in Commercial Development.
New York State Assoc. Real Estate Broker
Pennsylvania Real Estate Sales Agent
ACADEMICS:
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand. Associate Professor and Director- Faculty of Architecture. Founded a School of Architecture- established under the auspices of H.M. the King. The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Assistant Professor.
Graduate and undergraduate design studios.
Fundamentals of Design Lectures (Introduction to Design lectures for first year students)
Venice program 86&87.
Theory- Poetics & Composition
Foundations of Modern Architecture
Photography and Architecture
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Assistant Professor.
Directed first and second year studios.
Graduate and undergraduate design studios.
Fundamentals of Design lectures (Introduction to Design lectures for first and second year students).
Established foreign studies exchange programs in Spain and Australia.
SEMINARS:
6.84- 8.84 The National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Illinois.
Participant; ‘Architectural Theorists of the Renaissance and their Challengers’.
Dr. Richard Betts- moderator.
LANGUAGES:
German- fair knowledge of high and Swabian dialects
Thai, Italian- working knowledge
French, Spanish- some understanding
TRAVEL:
Have traveled to over 35 countries with many visits to Thailand, Italy and New Zealand.
COMPUTERS:
Expert in Photoshop 6. AutoCad 2000, Freehand 8, Illustrator 8, Excel, Word, and Mini-Cad.
GIS software.
COMMITTEES & BOARDS:
Member- Board of Directors for Elant Inc. a not-for-profit.
Partner- Elant Lifestyles. A for profit real estate consultancy.
Member- Foundation Board of Bon Secours Hospital
Member- Mid Hudson Builders Assoc.
Member- The Alliance for Balanced Growth
Member- The Orange County Partnership
Member- The Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development
Member- The Orange County Planning Board
Member- Orange County Chamber of Commerce
Member and volunteer- The Sloop Clearwater and the Mystic Whaler
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