Faculty

Nina Edwards Anker

Part-Time Lecturer

Email
edwardsn@newschool.edu

Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street

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Nina Edwards Anker

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Dr. Nina Edwards Anker, Assoc. AIA, PhD, is an architectural designer with over 20 years of professional experience and founder and director of NEA Studio, a New York–based design collaborative working across interiors, architecture, sustainability, and wellness. Her practice specializes in holistic environments combining cultural, collaborative, and environmental strategies with a focus on solar design, health, and material research. Working closely with collaborators and specialists, Nina continues to expand her research and practice in social and environmental justice, biomaterials, recycled materials, and the design of furniture, lighting, homes, and workplaces.

At Parsons School of Design, Nina's teaching explores the intersection of spatial design, environmental sustainability, material ecology, and human wellbeing. Her courses investigate how architecture and interiors can respond to diverse human needs while fostering more equitable and ecologically responsible environments.

Her architectural approach is explored in her monograph, Cocoon House: Light in Sustainable Architecture and Design, published by Artifice Press. She previously served as Design Director at the urban think tank Terreform ONE and serves on the Architectural Review Board of her Long Island community. Her Adaptable Shinnecock Homestead won the 2026 AIA Long Island award.and her work has been featured in The Local Project, ELLE Décor, Dezeen, Frame, Domus, Surface, Architectural Record, and The New York Times. 

https://www.neastudio.com  

Degrees Held

PhD in Architecture, Oslo School of Architecture & Design

MARCH, Harvard Graduate School of Design  

Bachelor of Arts, Vassar College

 

Recent Publications

The Local Project, 2024, Radical Living – Homes at the Edge of Architecture, Avi Friedman (Introduction), Images Publishing, Jul 2023, Washington Post, Seattle Times, SF Gate, Philadelphia Tribute, ABC News, Toronto Star, distributed by AP, “Designers Look to Nature Landfills for New Décor Materials,” Jan 2023, Hamptons Modern- Contemporary Living on the East End, David Sokol, Monacelli Press, Nov 2022, Green Architecture for a Sustainable Living, booq Publishing, Nov 2021, Cocoon House - Light in Sustainable Design and Architecture, Artifice Press, May 2021, Women in Design, ID Press, Nov 2020, Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities, with Terreform One, Actar Press, Jan 2020, Architecture & Culture, Art + Design, HotBook (Mexico), Luxe, New England Home, DesignMilk, Winter 2020, Wallpaper, Dwell, New York Times, Domus,  AD, Whitewall, CLADmag (UK), Designboom, Design +Décor, Numero Tokyo, Fall 2019, Elle Décor, La Revue du Design, BOAT, Domino, DARC, Architects + Artisans, The  Architects Newspaper, Summer 2019,  Designing with Photovoltaics, Taylor and Francis, Fall 2019, Key Note Address, NYU Sustainability Summit 2019 – Environmental Design in Urban Spaces, Apr 2019, Sofas – 340 Iconic Designs, Toromanoff, A., Thames & Hudson, 2018, 2018 Made in NYC – Gifted and Talented Gift Guide, Purist, “Space,” Cocoon, Oct 2018, New York City College of Technology Press, The City Univ. of NY, Structure for Architects, Cocoon, Jan 2019,  Avery Review – Critical Essays on Architecture, issue 29, Feb 2018, with Peder Anker, “Anthropocene Architecture: Design Earth’s Geostories,” The Norwegian Review of Architecture/Arkitektur N, Spring 2017, Design for 2017/2016,  Promote Design, Milan, Italy, Apr 2016/17

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