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Aleksandr Mergold (+M), principal of Mergold Architecture PLLC, is an architect with over 20 years of professional experience in a variety of project types: residential, commercial, educational, recreational, and cultural. Aleksandr’s practice is currently based in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS.

Aleksandr is a founding partner of Austin + Mergold (A+M), an award-winning design collective, co-founded with Jason Austin (A+). A+M provides a platform for the partners to combine their expertise working on commissioned and speculative design projects, exhibitions, installations and public art.

Coming from a family with two generations of architects, Aleksandr was trained at Princeton and Cornell University, receiving Master and Bachelor degrees in architecture, and the New York Chapter AIA Medal and the Charles Goodwin Sands Bronze Medal. After working for several large architecture firms, he joined the office of Pentagram in New York. There Aleksandr worked on a variety of architectural and design projects, exhibitions, and cultural institutions – including the Harley–Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Arizona Cardinals Stadium in Tempe, AZ, the interiors for the Daily Show in NYC, and Welcome Center for Philip Johnson’s Glass House and Estate in New Canaan, CT.

Aleksandr Mergold is a Registered Architect in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; member of the American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Graphic Arts; and a LEED Accredited Professional. He is a winner of New York Architecture League Prize for Architects and Designers, the Philadelphia AIA Emergent Architect Prize, the Folly Competition at Socrates Sculpture Park, and a recipient of the Urban Edge Prize from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the New York Council for the Arts (NYSCA) grants.

Aleksandr Mergold is now an Associate Professor of Architecture at NJIT. For the last 15 years Aleksandr has taught at Cornell AAP, Columbia GSAPP, and prior to that at Parsons The New School. Aleksandr’s work has been published in a variety of media, including Architectural Record, Thresholds, Domus, Designboom, 306090, BLDGBLOG, Mnemeio & Perivallon, Specialle-Z, The Architect’s Newspaper, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Residential Architect Magazine, and the Cornell Journal of Architecture.

Aleksandr was born and raised in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan in the ancient city of Tashkent, whose urban fabric bears simultaneous traces of the Great Silk Road, colonial conquests, and a socialist planned economy. After the collapse of the USSR, Aleksandr came to the US as a refugee in 1992 and began his discovery, inquiry and re-imagining of America.