Anthony Mekel
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biography
Anthony Mekel is strategic leader and mentor with a passion for best practice design management. He has over 30 years of experience in the fields of architecture and interior design and is wholly committed to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment that stresses dynamic, ordered, sustainable, and expertly executed workplace design solutions.
Anthony’s experience includes a broad range of projects from healthcare to dot-com and new media, specializing in corporate interiors while working at firms including : HLW International LLP, JJ Falk Design, HOK, TPG Architecture, Mancini-Duffy, and RBS+D. His larger projects include headquarters design for Canon USA, CNBC Global, and Univision and multiple project locations for Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Yahoo!, and American Express.
Anthony is a self-taught AutoCAD draftsman and digital designer who originally began his career drafting by hand. He has spent the last 22 years developing a successful method for teaching AutoCAD as the foundation tool in a student’s digital design skillset. He has written his own syllabus which evolves with each new version of the software application.
Anthony’s teaches AutoCAD using the Concept / Command / Exercise method that stresses drafting accuracy, effective computer workflow / habits and focuses on using the program as a design tool as well as a drafting tool.
Education
B.Arch, Pratt Institute.
Publications and Projects
Publications:
- Contract Magazine “Archi-techy” Interview regarding digital design trends
- Rome Redux Photos and work selected for pedagogical tome
Partial Client/Project History:
- Morgan Stanley: North and South America, 11m+ sf
- Univision Headquarters: Florida, 250k sf
- Canon North American Headquarters: New York, 800k sf
- CNBC Global Headquarters: New Jersey, 300k sf
- The Walt Disney Company: New York, 1.2m sf
- Greenberg Traurig: National, 40k+ sf
- Blackstone: New York, 20k sf
- Elevance (Anthem Health): National, 200k+ sf
- JPMorgan Chase: New York, 100k+ sf
- American Express: New York, 11k sf
- Valeant Pharmaceuticals: New Jersey 240k sf
- CIBC World Markets: New York, 300k sf
- Wells Fargo: New York, 500k+ sf
- Lefrak Organization: New York, 100k+ sf
- Deloitte: Pennsylvania and New York, 200k+ sf
- Yahoo! and Yahoo! Hot Jobs: Florida, Texas, New York and Toronto, 180k+ sf
- Alliance Capital Cafeteria: New York, 20k sf
- Metiom: New York, 40k sf
- Nortel Networks: New York, 20k sf
- BMC Software: Massachusetts and New York, 250k+ sf
- Jamaica Hospital Medical Center: New York, 125k+ sf