Assistant Professor Alexandra Emma Benardete



Assistant Professor, Architectural Technology
BA, New York University; MA in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University; MArch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Alexandra Emma Benardete is a New York State-registered architect and LEED accredited professional. She has worked as a project architect in firms specializing in residential projects ranging from urban apartment buildings to free standing houses throughout the tri-state area. She also has collaborated with other designers on lighting and furniture design and worked closely with fabricators from the prototyping to final production stages. Most recently, she worked for both developers as well as city-funded public projects in Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, for which she studied existing zoning regulations and helped formulate new regulations for special districts. She is an urban design consultant with an independent practice focusing on affordable, sustainable residential design.


Professor Benardete graduated magna cum laude with honors from NYU and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At New York University she majored in art history and received a master's degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, specializing in Renaissance and Antiquity. She received her MArch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her work on a live/work studio project was museum archived. She is currently a member of the New York City chapter of USGBC LEED.