John Cleater is a founding member of internationally acclaimed Performance Group, The Builders Association, creating designs for many of their cross media productions. He has worked as project architect with Asymptote for clients including the New York Stock Exchange, Documenta XI, BMW Headquarters, The Guggenheim Virtual Museum, and Carlos Meile. With Hani Rashid, at the Columbia University School of Architecture, he oversaw the creation of three large-scale interactive installations in the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2000. Other recent work includes: Jury Selection for the Highline Competition in Manhattan; a proposal for a wireless network overlay for Queens Plaza, and the installation "Emergency Exit" at Artist Space in New York, as part of the critically acclaimed exhibition "Digital Mapping in Architecture". He has also worked on projects with Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, Vito Acconci, I.M. Pei, and others. He holds a Masters degree from the Columbia University School of Architecture. Cleater taught a workshop titled Intersection at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) which investigated the threshold between physical and virtual space and how to create alternative ways of passing between them. Cleater also co-taught a class with Marianne Weems in the Electronic Music Center at Columbia University entitled: “Doublevision: Updating Thomas Edison Through Site-Specific Installation”. The Columbia students' installations were publicly displayed in NYC. He redesigned Brooklyn College Gymnasium for the BCCP program by creating large cut-outs shaped from popular logos as well as designed a mobile stage/ seating. Cleater just returned from a 2007 John Michael Kohler Arts Center residency at the Kohler Foundry where he created large Architectural Apendages out of enameled iron and chrome plated brass that will be incorporated into an unfolding, self sustainable mobile container for multiple uses. Currently Cleater is involved on the advisory commitee at the OMI International Arts Center's newest project, Architecture OMI: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Architecture. Read an interview and with John Cleater in 2007 as part of the Presence Project.

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Education: Bachelor of Science @ GeorgiaTech College of Architecture, Masters in Architecture @ Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning (GSAPP).

Teaching : Columbia School of Architecture Assistant Teacher for Hani Rashid, New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Electronic Music Center at Columbia University, and Time, Place, Space (TPS3) Adelaide, Australia.