Architecture Fall 2009 Lecture Series - September 15, 2009 at Slocum Hall. Bierut is a partner at full-spectrum graphic design firm Pentagram in NYC. In 2006 he won the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts ) medal, the profession's highest honor. His work is represented in several permanent collections including MoMA and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in NYC. He currently serves as a director of the Architectural League of NY and of New Yorkers for Parks, and is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art.