James Biber

James Biber is an architect and partner in the firm Biber Architects, based in New York.

Biber was born in New Rochelle, New York He attended Cornell University, studying Biology before receiving his professional degree in Architecture in 1976. Upon graduation James received the Matthew DelGaudio Award in total design and the Shreve Fund Award, as well as the James Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship, on which he traveled in Europe for 6 months.

Biber spent his early career at Paul Segal Associates, becoming the Senior Associate and leaving in 1984 to establish James Biber Architect. Notable projects include the Gotham Bar and Grill (designed while at Paul Segal Associates), Mesa Grill, Bolo Bar and Restaurant, restaurants that helped launch the careers of Alfred Portale and Bobby Flay. Biber’s firm practiced in a studio that included Carin Goldberg, a renowned graphic designer whom he married in 1987, and the illustrator/designer Gene Greif who died in 2004.

In 1991, the international design firm Pentagram Design invited Biber to join as a partner in the New York office as the first architect in that office. He joined graphic designers Paula Scher and Michael Bierut shortly after they became partners, along with established partners Woody Pirtle, Peter Harrison and founder Colin Forbes. Other partners in New York office of Pentagram included Luke Hayman, Michael Gericke, Abbott Miller and Lisa Strausfeld.

Biber left Pentagram in October 2010 to establish his own New York-based studio, Biber Architects. He has described his work as the "Architecture of Identity."

Biber's most recent project is the USA Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015. Biber’s career has also included the design of the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, 2008; oceanfront houses in Montauk, NY; a restoration of the 1934 Sten-Frenke house in Santa Monica, by Richard Neutra; along with projects at Celebration, Florida; store, suites and lounges in the Arizona Cardinals Football Stadium (by Peter Eisenman) in Phoenix, Arizona; Headquarters for the Muzak corporation in Fort Mill, SC.

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