Director, MPS in Digital Practice Management

Anthony Samaha is the director of the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Practice Management at the New York School of Interior Design. 

Samaha has an MS in Architectural Technologies from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and a BA in Architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology. On teams with peers, he has won important innovation grants, such as the Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Grant with a team led by Casey Rehm, and two Perkins &Will Innovation Incubator Awards, which have allowed him to conduct research on everything from how robots can decrease the number of site visits architects must make, to the embodied carbon use of different software workflows and practices. He was the winner of the AECTech+ Boston Hackathon.

He has worked as both an architectural designer (at Hill West Architects and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects) and as a digital practice manager/lead (at Perkins&Will and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects), and he understands the day-to-day demands on architects and interior designers from multiple perspectives. Samaha is also an experienced educator, having taught design technology at the university level.

MS, Pratt Institute

B.Arch, Universidad Central De Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Mark has been a professional lighting designer in New York City for 17 years. He is the staff lighting designer for Celano Design Studio. Before turning full time to architectural lighting, Mark was a Broadway associate lighting designer for 10 years. He has been teaching lighting design at NYSID for six years. He hold an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of the IES.

MFA, New York School of Interior Design

BA, Albany State University

A German native, Stefan is an award-winning master craftsman in tailoring and pattern making who earned his MFA in Interior Design from the New York School of Interior Design. He began his career at S. Russell Groves in New York and later worked for several prestigious firms such as Pierce Allen, Selldorf Architects, and MR Architecture & Decor. He founded his own firm Steilish Interiors & Architecture in 2012.