Faculty

Michael Maggio

Michael Maggio, who joined Ralph Appelbaum Associates in 2004, directs and manages national and international cultural and corporate center projects. Mr. Maggio is currently directing the design effort for the Orientalist Museum, in Doha, Qatar, and the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland.

maggioMr. Maggio, who joined RAA in 2004, directs and manages national and international cultural and corporate center projects. Mr. Maggio is currently directing the design effort for the Orientalist Museum, in Doha, Qatar, and the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland.

His past projects include the Maritime Experiential Museum and Aquarium on Sentosa Island, Singapore; the Thekra [Remembrance] Museum and the Habitat Museums at Al-Shaheed Park, Kuwait City, Kuwait; Newseum, Washington, D.C.; the Rutgers University Visitor Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington; Lincoln Center Legends, New York, New York; McKinsey Commons, Norwalk, Connecticut; and the AT&T Executive Briefing Center, Dallas, Texas. Mr. Maggio has also assisted with the design and development of the Vanke Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015; the Walmart Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas; the Moody Gardens Rainforest, Galveston, Texas the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg; and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.

 Before joining RAA, he was a freelance designer in Buffalo. His clients included the Albright Knox Museum of Art; Cannon Design; Studio for Architecture; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Lindy Roy, New York, where he fabricated a museum model of the Wind River Lodge design displayed at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and now on permanent display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

 Mr. Maggio has taught graduate and undergraduate architecture at Parsons, The New School, New York, Pratt Institute, New York,  and State University of New York, Buffalo, his alma mater. He has also taught graduate interiors courses at Pratt Institute, New York. He currently holds the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, where he teaches Exhibit Design in the MFA of Interior Design department.