User:Nicola Linza

Nicola Linza is an architect trained industrial and graphic designer, creative director, decorator, and historic environment consultant with a focus on early to mid-century modern residences of America and France, the traditional manor houses of England, Wales and Northern Ireland with an appreciation for le chic d’une maison délabré of the English Country House, the refined London Townhouse, the French châteaux of the seventeenth century through the Belle Époque and the early French Arts Décoratifs residences of Paris in the region of the 1920s and 1930s. In his work there is a breathable, timeless, visually weightless quality of environmental graphic design. Linza executes with an extreme precision of mathematics and science relating to order, harmony and beauty, where the past and present future straddle to establish order in the midst of the chaos and ambiguity of complex pre-1880 historical norms and 20th century modern precedents from The Staatliches Bauhaus and French Arts Décoratifs of L’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes – 1925 Paris to the 1950’s mid-century modern of America.

Trained as an architect, working during college at the Office of Charles and Ray Eames - Eames Office directly under Ray Eames and Sam Passalacqua in Venice, California and was a student of legendary Italian designer Lorenzo "Renzo" Mongiardino and the distinguished American art dealer, scholar and collector Robert Hatfield Ellsworth. Linza has comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of Ming dynasty furniture, modern Chinese painting, Chinese mirrors, and neolithic jades. Linza mentored under world renowned mathematician and polymath Dr. Nikos Salingaros, known for his work on urban theory, architectural theory, complexity theory, and design philosophy.

During studies at the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Linza trained in human factors engineering and technology under Judith Wachsmann wife of modernist Bauhaus architect, Konrad Wachsmann. He holds a scholarly knowledge and interest in early modern and art deco architecture and design, algorithmic sustainable design, and is a specialist in the historic interiors of England, Wales and Northern Ireland with emphasis on the English Country House and London Townhouse. He graduated magna cum laude with a BSc in Environmental Studies.

Linza served three years as a distinguished American Institute of Architects Board Director and was selected as an AIA Award of Merit Jury Board Member. He is the 1997 recipient of the AIA Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Membership of the AIA American Institute of Architects, Palm Beach. Linza also served on the President’s Businesses Strengthening America Best Practices Research Subcommittee and was presented with The George H.W. Bush Points of Light Award 2001 for International Service, Civic and Community Leadership, and Contributions to Arts and Culture.