Amina Blacksher

Amina Blacksher is an architectural designer based in New York City. Ms. Blacksher has a decade of experience working across a wide range of scales and building typologies as a designer for Bjarke Ingels Group, Ennead Architects, and Gordon Kipping Architects. Prior to joining the design faculty at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Ms. Blacksher taught architecture studios at Yale School of Architecture, where she was a presidential visiting fellow and has served as a guest critic on design juries at Sci-Arc, Princeton School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Design, Tulane School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture - City College, and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Ms. Blacksher holds a Master of Architecture degree from Yale School of Architecture, where she was named the Robert Leon Combs Scholar.