building arts. As SITE’s continuing President and Creative Director, he has designed and built more than one hundred and fifty art/architectural projects in the USA, Italy, France, England, Austria, Canada, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, Dubai, China, and Japan.
Professor Wines has delivered lectures at eight hundred colleges, universities, and professional conferences in fiftyseven countries and written seven books; including DE-ARCHITECTURE (Rizzoli International) 1987 and GREEN ARCHITECTURE (Taschen Verlag) 2000. In addition, there have been twenty-two monographs and museum catalogues published on his drawings and projects for SITE.
Winner of twenty-five art and design awards – including the 1995 Chrysler Award for Design Innovation (USA) and the 2011 ANCE Award for an International Architect (Italy), James Wines was honored in 2002 with a large retrospective exhibition at the Centre FRAC in France, jointly sponsored by Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museé des Beaux Arts in Orleans.
His graphic work has been shown in more than one hundred and fifty museums and galleries in the USA, Europe, and Asia. The most recent exhibition of his drawings, bridging from 1970 to the present, was on view during the winter of 2013 at the Atrium Gallery, City College of New York.
Drawings and models can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, FRAC, Louvre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Australian National Gallery, Tokyo National Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago and others.
Recent commissions
Among recent commissions, he has been working on a Confucian cemetery in Korea, several hospitality projects in the USA, a private house in California and lighting products for Foscarini in Italy. He continues to research the integrative arts, environmental issues in architecture, theories of public space and writes on these subjects for design publications internationally.
He has also been preparing the SITE archives for transfer to Avery Library at Columbia University and a drawing retrospective for Tchoban Museum in Berlin, opening in October 2020. Professor Wines lives in the SoHo section of New York City, with his design studio located in the Wall Street area.
