Nina Cooke John is the founding principal of Studio Cooke John Architecture and Design, a multidisciplinary design studio that values placemaking as a way to transform relationships between people and the built environment.
Studio Cooke John’s Shadow of A Face, the Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark, NJ was unveiled in March 2023. The studio was awarded a 2021 AIA Merit Award for the public art installation, Point of Action, commissioned for the Flatiron public plazas in 2020 and currently on view at the Wassaic Project. Nina was named the AIANY New Perspectives honoree in 2024 and a 2022 United States Artists Fellow. She is a 2024 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize recipient for Exhibit Columbus. Her work has also been featured in Architectural Record, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Dwell, NBC’s Open House, and PBS NewsHour Weekend among other publications and news outlets.
Nina earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a master’s in architecture from Columbia University. She now teaches at Columbia University.