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Zelnik, Martin, 1939-2022 (1939- 2022 April 1)

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  • Existence: 1939- 2022 April 1

Biography

Martin "Marty" Zelnik, was born and raised in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He attended Riverdale Country School from kindergarten to high school. He then attended Brandeis University where he played sports, and was inducted into the Brandeis Hall of Fame for tennis. During his senior spring season at Brandeis he served as their first Women’s tennis team coach. After Brandeis, Zelnik attended the Columbia University School of Architecture and founded Panzel Zelnik Associates, a distinguished architecture firm that he led for 50 years. He taught for the Interior Design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1999, making major contributions to the program, and held the position of Chairperson of the Faculty Association at FIT. He co-authored three major design standard publications. Zelnik passed away on April 1, 2022 at the age of 82.

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Marty Zelnik interview, 1995 April 4, 1995 April 4

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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.35
Scope and Contents Professor of Interior Design and Chair of the Faculty Association at the time of this interview, Martin Zelnik was hired as a full-time professor in 1969. Zelnik received his BFA from Brandeis University and an MFA of Architecture from Columbia University. He discusses changes in student demographics, noting that students are less traditional and often older than when he started. He talks about how most faculty remain practitioners in their fields, and discusses the linkages between his...
Dates: 1995 April 4
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Academic Affairs records / Gladys Marcus Library records / Special Collections and FIT Archive / FIT oral histories collection / FIT 50th Anniversary oral history series, 1994-1996

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