Nic Goldsmith, FAIA LEED AP has spent an entire career in the pursuit of designing innovative structures, starting with working in Germany for the Pritzker Prize winning Frei Otto in Germany for 3 years where he collaborated with Peter Rice and Sir Ted Happold. Subsequently Nic founded FTL Design Engineering Studio, then developed a partnership with Buro Happold, called FTL Happold with BH’s first US office in New York. Nic designed many of the legacy FTL projects from the Carlos Moseley Pavilion for the NY Philharmonic to the ASU Skysong in Scottsdale AZ. He has taught extensively first at Pratt, then 14 years at University of Pennsylvania, then at Cornell and Columbia. He has exhibited internationally including the design of the first PV integrated tensile structure for the Smithsonian Institution.