PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024- Owner, Jan Hird Pokorny PC, Historic Preservation Firm

1995-            BumpZoid Principal

1975-95        BumpZoid Partner

1978-80        Davis Brody and Associates

1976-78         James V. Righter, Architect

1973-80        Zoid Construction, BumpZoid Build

1992              Connecticut State Registered Architect

1983              New York State Registered Architect 
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1980-85        Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University
                      Teaching upper level design studios and seminars on Architectural Theory

1981              Visiting Lecturer at Yale University

1973-76         Teaching Assistant at Yale College
 

EDUCATION

1976              M.Arch, Yale University School of Architecture

1973              B.A. cum laude, Yale University

1969              Regents Diploma, Island Trees High School, Levittown
 

THEORETICAL WORK

2003              O Zone Manifest II and WTC

1999              O Zone Manifesto and New Jerk City

1986              Began the BumpZoid Abecedary of Irregular Curves

1983              Instigator of the Manhattan Eruptus project

1977-79         Founder of Xero magazine
                       Reader participatory alternative Architectural magazine

1976               Founder of Accademia Mezzanotte 
                       Looseknit organization dedicated to discussion of Architectural theory which organizes
                       talks, dinners, and occasional publication

1972-73         Inflatable Confrontations
                       Creation of inflatable transparent ‘secret society’, inflatable lips for Oldenburg’s ‘Lipstick    
                       Ascending’ and various inflatable ‘happenings’