Carol Rusche Bentel

At North Carolina State University. Bentel received her PhD in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Modern Architecture at MIT. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Venice (Italy). Bentel was also the national chair on the AIA Committee on Design in 2008 and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Bentel has taught at Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, the Architectural Association in London, and lectured at the Centro Palladio in Vicenza (Italy), among other institutions. She is co-author of Nourishing the Senses: Restaurant Architecture of Bentel and Bentel and has published numerous articles on Italian Modernism.

The Architects Collaborative, Cambridge, MA Hisaka & Associates, Cambridge, MA Isozaki Studio, Japan Bentel and Bentel Architects, NY - Partner

Elected to the College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects, 2003 Elected to IIDA College of Fellows, 2020 Elected to the ASID College of Fellows in 2024. Preservation League of NYS, Vice Chair, 2020 American Institute of Architects, National AIA Committee on Design, National Chair, 2008; Carol Bentel was responsible for three major conferences for the National AIA Committee on Design with a focus on 20th Century Architecture: Rome (2001): Modern Currents along the Tiber Denmark (2008): Danish Modern – Then & Now Detroit (2008): Design Parallels

Dr. Carol Bentel, Dr. Paul Bentel, and Peter Bentel; John Morris Dixon, ed. Nourishing the Senses: Restaurant Architecture of Bentel and Bentel (VPB, 2018) “I tre siti per il Foro Fascista” in Giorgio Ciucci (ed.), Classicism Classicismi: Architettura Europa/America 1920-1940, (Electa, 1995): 145-150. [Italian text] “1934, Progetto di concorso di primo grado per il Palazzo del littorio a Roma. Progetti A e B,” “1937, Progetto di concorso di secondo grado per il Palazzo del littorio a Roma,” “1937-1939, “Casa del fascio di Lissone,” in Giorgio Ciucci (ed.), Giuseppe Terragni (Electa, 1996). [Three chapters written by author in Italian] “Book Review of Building New Communities by Diane Ghirardo,” JSAH (December, 1992): 447-8. “Der Wettbewerb fuer den Palazzo Littorio im Jahre 1934: Projekt A und Projekt B,“ in Stefan Germer and Achim Preib (ed.), Giuseppe Terragni 1904-1943 (Munich, 1991). "The Palazzo del Littorio Competition," Architecture Today, Vol. 3, 1989. London, England. Carol R. Bentel & Alan Cobb, Design Parallels, Albert Kahn Family of Companies, Detroit, 2008. Carol R. Bentel & T. Gunny Harboe, Danish Modern: Then and Now, Kahn Family of Companies, Detroit, 2008.

Bentel has numerous local, national, and international design awards beginning with the winning prize for the 1985 New York Times Square Competition (with Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA) displayed in The Skyscraper Museum (2014-2015), to the international award from the London magazine “Wallpaper” for the best restaurant design in the world for The Modern restaurant at MoMA in NYC (with Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA & Peter Bentel AIA). The awards include four National AIA Honor Awards, numerous SARA awards, “Best Design of the Year 2000,” IIDA and Interior Design Magazine Award, 2007 HD Platinum Circle Honoree, three James Beard Awards for design, and two winning entries (interiors) in Built by Women NYC, 2015. Work has been published in numerous publications including “Architectural Record,” “Interior Design,” “Hospitality Design,” and “Metropolis.”