Carol Rusche Bentel

Carol Rusche Bentel, PhD, FAAR '94, FAIA, LEED AP, ASID, FIIDA, NCIDQ, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Architect and educator, Bentel is partner of architectural firm Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners AIA and is the BFA Interior Design: Built Environments, School of Visual Arts chair. She holds a BA at Washington University in St. Louis and a M.Arch. at North Carolina State University. Bentel received her PhD in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Modern Architecture at MIT.[1] She was after awarded as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Venice (Italy). Bentel was also the national chair on the AIA Committee on Design and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome."[2][3]

Bentel has taught at Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, the Architectural Association in London, and the Centro Palladio in Vicenza (Italy), among other institutions.[4] She is co-author of Nourishing the Senses: Restaurant Architecture of Bentel and Bentel and has published numerous articles on Italian Modernism.

Education

BA, Washington University in St. Louis; M.Arch., North Caroline State University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fulbright Scholar at the University of Venice; Fellow of the American Academy in Rome

Professional Experience

The Architects Collaborative, Cambridge, MA

Hisaka & Associates, Cambridge, MA

Isozaki Studio, Japan

Bentel and Bentel Architects - Partner

Professional Affiliations

Elected to the College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects, 2003

Elected to IIDA College of Fellows, 2020

American Institute of Architects, National AIA Committee on Design (10,000 members), National Chair, 2008; Carol Bentel created and was responsible for intellectual content and raised funds for three major conferences for the National AIA Committee on Design with a focus on 20th Century Architecture:

Rome (2001): Modern Currents along the Tiber

Denmark (2008): Danish Modern – Then & Now

Detroit (2008): Design Parallels

Written Work & Lectures

Dr. Carol Bentel, Dr. Paul Bentel, and Peter Bentel; John Morris Dixon, ed. Nourishing the Senses: Restaurant Architecture of Bentel and Bentel (VPB, 2018)

Recognition

Dr. Carol Bentel has numerous local, national, and international design awards beginning with the winning prize for the 1985 New York Times Square Competition (with Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA) recently displayed in The Skyscraper Museum, to the international award from the London magazine “Wallpaper” for the best restaurant design in the world for The Modern restaurant at MoMA in NYC (with Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA & Peter Bentel AIA).

The awards include four National AIA Honor Awards, numerous SARA awards, “Best Design of the Year 2000,” IIDA and Interior Design Magazine Award, 2007 HD Platinum Circle Honoree, three James Beard Awards for design, Finalist for Renwick Gallery Interior (with Dr. Paul Bentel), and two winning entries (interiors) in Built by Women NYC, 2015. She has been awarded for lighting design and has a furniture line at Brueton. Work has been published in numerous publications including “Architectural Record,” “Interior Design,” “Hospitality Design,” and “Metropolis.”

Publications

“Dr. Bentel tackles the issue of Disposable Design at Design Talks 2019,” by Donna Heiderstadt, Interior Design Magazine, May 16, 2019

“Carol Bentel, New York City College of Technology, ”Hospitality Design Magazine, Education Issue, September, 2014, p.131

Annie Block, “A Sea Change: Paul & Carol Bentel reinvent New York’s Le Bernardin for Eric Ripert,” Interior Design, Jan. 2012, 41-44

Emily Hooper, “Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners,” Contract Design, Jan.-Feb. 2013, 74-77.

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References
  1. "Carol R. Bentel". Webb Institute. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. "Profile". Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners A.I.A. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2016-03-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Carol Bentel | MIT Architecture". architecture.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
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