Philip Szostak has over 25 years of experience in a broad variety of architectural design projects. After working for Arthur Cogswell for a few years, he opened Philip Szostak Associates in 1980. In 1990, he became NC Principal for NBBJ, America's 2nd largest architectural practice. After 12 years he left NBBJ to re-open his own firm, Szostak Design.  He graduated from the NCSU School of Design in 1975 and has taught a graduate studio there since 1976.  In February 2003 he was curator for The North Carolina School: The Art of Architecture at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art, an exhibition of the works by graduates and faculty of the NCSU School of Design over the last 50 years.  HIs most recent major project is the Durham Performing Arts Center.

 

Several years ago, he founded the Triangle Architecture Design Society, an informal group of noted area architects including Frank Harmon and Kenneth Hobgood. 

 

Szostak is developer for the New American House Project, 12 Raleigh modernist houses to be built in 2010.