Austin Jennings Seid

LEED AP, AIA

Experience Overview

Mr. Seid works as Senior Architectural Designer developing urban infrastructure projects, specializing in passenger rail facilities and transit planning. He excels at processing conceptual and technical information and coordinating large teams, offering unique design solutions to complex problems. With eight years of design and documentation experience, using the latest in integrated digital software applications, he produces documents, isualizations and graphics depicting architectural proposals, which identify and resolve cross-disciplinary conflicts. His expertise leads to architectural solutions that are environmentally responsible, elegant, yet pragmatic, that fit into project schedules and budgets.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts,
  Master of Architecture, 2003
• SUNY Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning,
  Bachelor of Professional Studies in Architecture, 2000

Awards

• 2003, Vitetta Competition & Gallery Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, Third Place
  Stewardson Memorial Competition, “Crematorium”,  UPENN,  Second Place
• 2002 “Man is the Measure of All Things” Schenk Competition. (UPENN) Juried by Daniel Libeskind and Upper Faculty, First Place
• 2001 Woodman Competition. “Addition to the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA” Third Place, UPENN
• 2005 First International Advanced Architecture Competition sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Honorable Mention
  Induction as Net-Delegate, Nigeria. “Dendrotecture”

Publications

• 2003 –Journal of Architectural Education. “The Sheer Opacity of Contemporary Enclosure” by C. Veikos and R.Cheng,. MIT Press