At home in Saratoga Springs, with Albert (2019)
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Michael Fieldman is an award-winning architect, whose career has spanned 50 years. Based in New York City, his practice has left a lasting imprint on the city and its public institutions. He specializes in the design of academic, healthcare, transportation and residential architecture. He has been featured in numerous magazines, including Casabella, Architectural Record, Architecture, Architectural Design and iiC, and many others.
Michael’s groundbreaking work includes PS/IS 217, on Roosevelt Island - the prototype school that launched the New York City School Construction Authority; the New York City Police Academy, as design consulting architect in collaboration with Perkins+Will - to train the world’s largest municipal police force; and the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, as design architect in collaboration with Cambridge Seven Associates - one of the premiere health institutions in North America.
A native of Montreal, Canada—although born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan, in 1936—Michael is a graduate of McGill University holding degrees in advanced physics, mathematics, psychology and architecture. In architecture, he was graduated first in both design and thesis; won both the Louis Robertson Prize for Design and the Pilkington Scholarship for McGill, placing second in Canada; and received a Canada Council Fellowship—the Canadian equivalent of a Fulbright. His firm was founded in 1969 in Montreal, and relocated to New York in 1975. Michael has helmed the design of over two million square feet of built architecture.
In his New York Times appraisal of Michael, architectural critic Herbert Muschamp wrote, “… P.S. / I.S 217 on Roosevelt Island, a concrete structure designed by Michael Fieldman, is a highly refined, powerful work. The Police Academy designed for the South Bronx… refute[s] the notion that great architecture depends on "star" architects…. [He] understands that architects are socially responsible not only when they accommodate public taste but also when they resist it.”
Michael is a long-time resident of Manhattan and Saratoga Springs (NY) with Carla Skodinski, an investment advisor and manager, and Victoria and Albert, their two Abyssinian despots.