Featured Artist: Jason Harper of Perkins + Will

Posted by on Aug 13, 2015 in Featured Artists and Inspirations
Featured Artist:  Jason Harper of Perkins + Will

Interior Design Magazine recently had a Q & A session with Jason Harper, associate principal of Perkins + Will and the co-chair of Health Facilities Committee, who recently won the design excellence award from the AIA New York Chapter.  Harper’s career spans 25 years and includes such projects as The Carmen and John Thain Center for Prenatal Pediatrics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, and Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center and the Sheikh Zayed Tower, both at the Johns Hopkins University.

When asked what led him to focus on healthcare design, Harper stated:

“It was really serendipity that led to me landing a job in firm that focused on healthcare facilities. It wasn’t really a conscious choice. It was my first job in New York and I was lucky to land it during a pretty severe recession. Healthcare design is challenging and at times frustrating for the technical complexity of the work and relatively slow pace of the projects. From the beginning, however, I was taken with the mission of this type of work. Healthcare environments are places of special experience, encountered in times of stress and physical need. As such the experience of this type of facility and the journey through it is crucially important to patients, care-givers and family members. This has always made this type of design meaningful to me. “

In the Q & A session, Harper answers such questions as who and what has influenced him, the specific projects he has worked on and the changes coming to the healthcare design industry.  To read the entire article in Interior Design Magazine, click here.


Source:  http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/detail/36961-10-questions-with-jason-harper/


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