FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Paul Rudolph Institute For Modern Architecture
07/02/2025
The Paul Rudolph Institute For Modern Architecture Announces Susan Grant Lewin and Hari Priya Rangarajan as New Board Members
Both Share a Dedication to Design and Culture
NEW YORK, NY (July 10, 2024) –The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture (“PRIMA”) announced the appointment of Susan Grant Lewin and Hari Priya Rangarajan to the Board of Directors. This brings the number of board members to eight.
Susan Grant Lewin’s longstanding commitment to design and innovation extends beyond collecting. She was architecture and design editor at both HFN, Fairchild Publications and House Beautiful Magazine, each for 12 years. In the 1980s, she joined Formica Corporation as Creative Director, originally to promote Colorcore, a new material specifically aimed at architects. She created Surface & Ornament, an exhibition that displayed both the winners of a design competition and the conceptual objects of a group of invited entrants, most notably the Colorcore fish by Frank Gehry. She subsequently started her own marketing and PR firm Susan Grant Lewin Associates, representing clients like Design Miami and Dyson. Lewin is also known as a prominent collector of contemporary art jewelry. She has had exhibitions and donated important works to Yale University Art Gallery, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum, Lowe Museum of the University of Miami and SCAD Museum of Art at the Savannah School of Art and Design.
She is joined by Hari Priya Rangarajan, who graduated from Columbia Graduate school of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 2008 with an undergraduate degree in Architecture from RVCE in Bangalore. Her experience includes being a project manager at The Frick Collection, Frick Madison as well as the design and construction for MIT Museum. She is a passionate advocate for cultural institutions, with a deep interest in how art, history, and design shape public experience.
“Susan Grant Lewin’s dedication to promoting good design and Hari Priya Rangarajan’s experience with preserving cultural institutions will be important assets to the Institute,” said Kelvin Dickinson, President of PRIMA. “Together, they will shape our mission to preserve and promote our modernist heritage.”
About the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture
The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture is a New York City-based non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to educating the public about modern architecture and the need to preserve it. Through preservation and advocacy efforts, educational programs, public events and maintaining and developing an archive of written and graphic materials, the Institute promotes the legacy of modernist architects in a larger architectural and cultural context to interested students, journalists, scholars, and the general public.
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