Nicholas Goldsmith

Nic Goldsmith FAIA LEED AP

FTL Design Engineering Studio, New York

Nic Goldsmith is the Founder & Principal of FTL Design Engineering Studio in New York, a Fellow of the AIA and former Chair of the Lightweight Structures Association. Trained as an architect, Nic has spent over forty years practicing and teaching innovative construction technologies and design principles.  

Prior to founding FTL, he was a designer for the Pritzker Prize Winner Frei Otto in Germany, known for the German Olympic Stadium. Nic’s firm explores lightness as a visual, physical and sustainable approach and has received numerous design awards for projects including the Carlos Moseley Music Pavilion for the Metropolitan Opera, the Rosa Parks Transit Center in Detroit and the Sun Valley Pavilion in Idaho. Nic has designed exhibitions including one on solar energy for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been featured in innumerable publications including an Architectural Monograph titled, FTL: Softness, Movement, Light and his new book, Mass to Membrane.