Thomas Phifer

It was completed and opened in 2024. Around 2006, Phifer won the City Lights Design Competition, for his design of standard LED streetlights which replaced New York City’s high-pressure sodium streetlights starting in 2011.

• Name — Thomas Phifer • Born — 1953 • Birthplace — South Carolina, U.S. • Significant Buildings — *Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw • Glenstone • North Carolina Museum of Art • Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse

Phifer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1975 and a Master of Architecture degree in 1977, both from Clemson University. He also studied at the Daniel Center for Architecture and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy in 1976. Phifer held the Stevenson Chair at the University of Texas and taught at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. He taught the Feltman Seminar at Cooper Union in the spring of 2022. Phifer established his firm Thomas Phifer and Partners in 1997. after a decade of working for Richard Meier.

• Illustration — Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse • Illustration — Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw • North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, 2010 • Pavilion in Wagner Park, New York City • Raymond and the Susan Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University in Houston, Texas • Salt Point House, Hudson River Valley, New York • Millbrook House in the Hudson River Valley, New York • Taghkanic House in the Hudson River Valley, New York • Castle Clinton National Monument in Manhattan, New York • Boulder House in Boulder, Colorado • Clemson University Lee Hall Expansion in Clemson, South Carolina, 2012 • Fishers Island House in Long Island, New York • Sagaponac House, New York • Seoul Language School in Seoul, South Korea • Steelcase, Inc. Headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan • U.S. Courthouse for the District of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah • Spencertown House in Spencertown, New York • Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland • Corning Museum of Glass addition in Corning, New York, completed in 2015 • LED Light Fixture, New York City‘s City Lights Design Competition • 222 Second Street in San Francisco (Phifer's first commercial tower, housing offices of LinkedIn), opened in 2016 • Red River Canopy Walk skyway in Austin, Texas • Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, completed in 2024