J. Yolande Daniels is a co-founding design principal of studioSUMO in New York with projects in the United States and Japan. studioSUMO has been the recipient of various awards including AIA Design awards for Museums and Education buildings, Emerging Voices Award, Design Vanguard Award and Young Architects Forum, and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. Daniels was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture, received an American Institute of Architects NY Chapter travel grant, and Fellowships from MacDowell and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney American Museum of Art. She received architecture degrees from Columbia University and City College, CUNY, and, has taught architecture at the graduate level at the Graduate Schools of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, City College, the University of Michigan, and held the Silcott Chair at Howard University.
J. Yolande Daniels
Studios
Adams
J. Yolande Daniels worked in the Adams studio.
Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…