Aurelie Paradiso established her design practice, Aurelie Paradiso Design llc, in the fall of 2012. The firm’s current projects include a 3600 SF duplex apartment renovation on West 18th Street in the Walker Tower building, currently under construction; a 3200SF three-bedroom apartment pied-a-terre in the new One57 tower in midtown Manhattan, currently in the design phases, an 1800 SF two bedroom apartment renovation in Great Neck, Long Island, also currently under construction, and a 6800SF new ground-up mixed use retail/residential construction in Bridgehampton, NY, currently in the design phases. She employs a team of designers and architects to lend their thoughtful voices to the realization of these great projects. 

With over twelve years of practical experience, Aurelie has engaged in a range of design work and scales. Prior to starting her practice, she worked as a lead designer and project manager with the award winning New York architecture firm of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects from 2003 until fall 2012, and in this time completed the design and construction of a 23,500SF Church and community outreach center in downtown Washington, D.C, and a 21,500SF new exhibition and educational facility and urban roof plaza for the Asia Society, Hong Kong Center. Before working at Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Aurelie worked for two other notable firms: Gwathmey Siegel Architects in New York and Kleihues und Kleihues Architecten in Berlin, Germany. 

During her tenure at Tod Williams Billie Tsien architects Aurelie completed freelance design work on a number of residential projects including the gut renovation of three NYC apartments and designing an exhibition for the video artist Mary Ellen Strom and choreographer Ann Carlson at the De Cordova Museum of Contemporary Art in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Aurelie was also the recipient of an independent project grant from the New York State Council for the Arts in 2009. 

Concurrent with her practice, Aurelie teaches architecture and interior design in both the undergraduate architecture and Master’s programs at Parsons the New School for Design. She has been invited as a guest design critic at Wesleyan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Parsons the New School for Design, Pratt Institute and New York Institute of Technology. 

Aurelie received her Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from Columbia College in 1998 and her Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture in 2003. 

Aurelie was born in Switzerland, carries three passports (Swiss, Italian and US), and has called New York home since 1981 when she moved to the US with her family as a child.