Short Bio

Tanya H. Van Cott, AIA

 Photograph by Connie Brukin

 Screenwriter | Novelist | NYS Architect | Product Designer

Published for innovations in design and awarded a Presidential Design Achievement Award by the National Endowment for the Arts, Tanya is interested in the possibility of social change through design and especially the written word.

A graduate of Pratt Institute, with a Bachelors of Architecture (Barch) and a Masters of Industrial Design (MID), Tanya has dedicated her career to interdisciplinary design. She has sought out projects that span her varied interests to create unique design solutions in many mediums.
Prior to opening her own Architectural Practice and Production Company, Tanya was fortunate to call Pentagram & Lippincott 
​(formerly Lippincott & Margulies)  a rich training ground.

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Trained as a problem solver, her writing explores human intrapersonal psychology and the social implications of largely unknown existing disruptive technologies, making complex information accessible through relatable storytelling.

With two completed novels, two novellas and a book of poetry completed, Tanya is currently working on the prequel to Bandwidth; her second screenplay, TMY and a passion project, Architecture of Lies, a screenplay





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