Stephen Zdepski

Stephen Zdepski RA, NCARB, PP received his Post-Professional Master of Architecture II degree from the Graduate School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He was a member the Louis I. Kahn Master’s Architectural Studio, the Robert Le Ricolais Advanced Structures Laboratory, and studied with Ian McHarg on ecological and urban systems. He has also studied with Buckminster Fuller, Edward Bacon on Urban Design, Paul Rudolph, Normal Rice (member of Le Corbusier’s practice), and Ann Tyng on morphological geometry in architecture.

Professor Zdepski was the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts Fellow in Architecture. He was awarded the Bachelor of Architecture, degree from Syracuse University. He is a founding faculty member of the New Jersey School of Architecture in 1974, previously having taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has been awarded the honor of Master Teacher by the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Professor Zdepski is a registered architect in New Jersey, New York and Virginia, and a registered Professional Planner in New Jersey. He also holds National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certification.

He is the co-recipient of two Progressive Architecture Design Research Award Citations in 1993 and 1991. In 1989, he was the co-recipient of the American Institute of Architects Education Honors Award, Honorable Mention. He has also received the Gustov Pfost Medal from the New York Society of Architects for excellence in design and construction. His is an elected faculty member of the Colonnade Club at the University of Virginia. Professor Zdepski holds a commission as an Honorary Kentucky Colonel, for his contribution to architectural education.

Architectural projects from his design studios have won thirty-three national and international design awards. Studio projects have been on exhibition and published in the USA, Europe, Russia, Japan and South America. Student design projects have been invited, and on exhibition at the Biennale Internationale Dell ‘Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, and at the Old Town Hall Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.

Professor Zdepski is the Past-President, and Past-Vice-President of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, an international association dedicated to research in advanced computer modeling and architectural design. With Professor Glenn Goldman, he was also the co-founder of the Imaging Laboratory at NJSOA/NJIT in 1983. The Imaging Laboratory is the first known academic architectural studio to use computer 3D modeling as the primary vehicle for design in the USA. Since its inception, the Imaging Laboratory has received in excess of $10 million dollars (educational value) in research grants, hardware/software grants, and donations from corporations and governmental agencies.

Professor Zdepski professional architectural work has been published internationally, and has received numerous design awards in the United States and Europe. His architectural projects have appeared on the cover of Fine Homebuilding, and in journals including The Village Voice, Progressive Architecture, Home & Garden, Interiors Magazine, A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (Japan), The New York Times, Architectural Record, Architecture Magazine. As project architect, he has also won numerous New Jersey Society of Architect’s Design Awards.

Professor Zdepski designed and constructed one of the first passive solar residences in the USA, with the distinction of being located in a fully wooden site with almost completely self-sufficient heating and cooling. The residence was selected as one of the Ten Most Innovative Homes in the USA by the International Planning Agency, and in 1987 was selected as the Most Innovate Passive Solar Home by EDRA, Netherlands.

Professor Zdepski was the design and program consultant for the Hilton Group for the television pilot design competition series “ICON” architectural landmarks and icons in public settings.

Professor Zdepski was the architectural design consultant to BEAMS, Hertfordshire, England in conjunction with the Rick Mather RIBA proposed addition to the historic Bodley Library at Christ College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.