Katherine Krizek


General Information


Occupation: Industrial Designer

Birth State/Province: New York

Birth Country: United States

Resident City: Rome

Resident Country: Italy

Sources: Doering, Erika, Rachel Sivitzky, and Rebecca Welz. Goddess in the Details: Product Design by Women: an Exhibition Organized by the Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions At Pratt Institute. New York City: Association of Women Industrial Designers, 1994.


Specialties


Subject: Furniture and Tabletop Product Design


Jobs


Employer: private practice

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Notes: industrial design clients such as Capellini International Interiors, Zanotta, Interflex Metals and Progetti in Milan


Collaborators


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Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Compoasso d'Oro Award

Description: awarded by the city of Milan for her design of the Mezzaluna Knife

Date Received: January 01, 1990


Name: Best in Category for Furniture in ID Magazine's 1992 Annual Review


Name: New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Architecture

Date Received: January 01, 1992


Exhibitions


Title: Critical Regionalism

Description: at the University of Chicago

City: Chicago

State: Illinois

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1986


Title: Ingenuo Design Exhibition

City: Tokyo

Country: Japan

Start Date: January 01, 1989


Title: Bar Metals Exhibition

City: Milan

Country: Italy

Start Date: January 01, 1992


Notable Projects



Education


Institution: Parsons School of Design

Degree: B.F.A.

End Date: January 01, 1979

Notes: graduated cum laude


Institution: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Degree: Bachelor of Architecture

End Date: January 01, 1984


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


No affiliations on record


Publications By


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Publications About


Title: Katherine Krizek

Author: Lucy Bullivant

Publication: Intramuros

Volume: 61

Page: 27-29

Date Published: January 01, 1995

Notes: Oct-Nov 1995


Title: What is Italian design and why are non-Italians doing it?

Author: Gianfranco Mantegna, Akiko Busch

Publication: Metropolis

Volume: 12

Issue: 9

Page: 47-55

Date Published: January 01, 1993

Notes: May 1993.


Title: Storefront: iconoclasm, invention and the ideal

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publication: Architecture and urbanism

Volume: 2

Issue: 197

Page: 71-98

Date Published: January 01, 1987

Notes: architectural projects by Kyong Park, Peter Pfau, Katherine Krizek, Neil Denari, Allan Wexler, Dan Coma, E. Diller, R. Scofido, Taeg Nishimoto, BaBa Arc, Lebbeus Woods, and others. Text in Japanese and English.


Title: Goddess in the Details: product design by women

Author: Erika Doering, Rachel Sivitzky, Rebecca Welz

Publisher: Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)

City: New York City

Date Published: January 01, 1994