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.  He graduated from the NCSU School of Design in 1975 and teaches a graduate studio there each year 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.  He hopes to repeat the event every five years.

 

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

 

In 2004 he also convened a second network of architects, the New American House Project, including Ellen Cassilly, Susan Cannon, Jeff Lee, Brian and Victoria Bell, Roger Clark, Cisco Gomes, Jessica Johnson, Dail Dixon, Kenneth Hobgood, Vinny Petrarca, and Charles Holden.  On 12 acres, located on Trailwood Drive in Raleigh, each member will design a modernist home for Szostak's New Southern Land Company,  These homes will be the largest modernist development ever in the Triangle and will feature extensive green design, below.