James Wines

JAMES WINES is founder and president of SITE, an internationally known architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in New York City in 1970. He is also head of the School of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University. Wines is the designer of more than 200 architecture, interior design, public space, and landscape architecture projects, including clients like PepsiCo, General Mills, Swatch, MCA, Universal, MTV, McDonald’s, and Disney. He is the former Chairman of Environmental Design at Parsons School of Design where he developed a graduate program in architecture. Among his most recent projects, he designed the USA Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Germany. He lives and works in New York City, exhibits with the Max Protetch Gallery, and continues to write for international art and architecture publications.