Scott Newman, AIA
Partner
Scott Newman has over 30 years of diverse experience in the planning and design of complex institutional projects. One of the foremost museum planners and designers in the country, Mr. Newman has served as partner-in-charge of the firm's work for such distinguished clients as the Museum of Modern Art, the Yale Center for British Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He is presently leading the new Whitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Other current projects include the Florence County Museum, the Museum of Westward Expansion at the St. Louis Arch, and the feasibility study for a new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki. He has also led projects at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, George Washington's Mount Vernon and the Gettysburg National Park. Scott recently completed the design of the new Silberman School of Social work at Hunter College and the award-winning Ethical Culture Fieldston Middle School. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and his Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon.