Marilyn Jordan Taylor
| Marilyn Jordan Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Marilyn Jordan March 31, 1949 Montezuma, Iowa |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | architect |
| Years active | 1974-present |
| Known for | airport design |
Marilyn Jordan Taylor (born 1949) an American architect, who has been a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill since the early 1980s and served as its first female chairman. She specializes in urban architectural projects and designed the master plan for the Manhattanville expansion, the Consolidated Edison East River Greenway as well as airports from the John F. Kennedy International Airport terminal 4 expansion to the SkyCity at the Hong Kong International Airport. Between 2008 and 2016, she served as the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
Marilyn Jordan was born on March 31, 1949 in Montezuma, Iowa and moved with her family to Washington, D.C. when she was ten years old. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 and went on to attend the MIT Graduate School of Architecture. Jordan finished her master's degree in Architecture at UC Berkeley in 1974 and joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's (SOM) Washington, DC Office. Around a decade later, she became a partner and relocated to the New York City office of SOM.
Taylor is known for her use of design in urban places working with infrastructure and public spaces. Some of the projects she has led include the master plan for Columbia University's Manhattanville expansion, the East River Waterfront project, the reclamation of the Con Edison East River station for the East River Greenway, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center, the "New Building" of John Jay College, among others. In addition, she founded and then directed the Airports and Transportation Practice at SOM. She designed Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, an expansion at Dulles International Airport in Washington, JFK terminal 4, the terminal for Continental Airlines at Newark Liberty International Airport, Singapore Changi Airport's Terminal 3, and the SkyCity at the Hong Kong International Airport.
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