Design
With the client, we set clear but flex­ible design inten­tions that con­trol deci­sions down to the details. This allows for progress with room for inspi­ra­tion.

Eco­nomics
We design towards a client’s budget but simul­ta­ne­ously eval­uate whether addi­tional costs pro­vide the client useful value.

Sus­tain­ability
We believe sus­tain­able design is not only good for the envi­ron­ment but has proven to create better spaces for our clients’ lives.

Design Build
We not only design our projects, our sister com­pany, Work­shop for Con­struc­tion, builds them. We have become better archi­tects and builders in this design-build prac­tice. The results are better for our clients both aes­thet­i­cally and economically.



1989
Com­pleted Master of Archi­tec­ture degree at the Grad­uate School of Design, Har­vard Uni­ver­sity

1989 — 2002
Worked at var­ious firms including Pei, Cobb, Freed & Part­ners and KPF. He later joined HLW Int and became a Partner man­aging large projects both domes­ti­cally and abroad.

2003
Estab­lished Work­shop for Archi­tec­ture (WFORA) with his first project, the MIG Offices, which was awarded a Design Merit by the AIA New York City Chapter in 2008.

2008
Founded Work­shop for Con­struc­tion (WFORC) to manage the con­struc­tion of his designs. Since then, WFORA and WFORC have oper­ated as a design-build prac­tice.

2010
Fellow at Mac­Dowell in New Hamp­shire, inves­ti­gating metaphor­ical and phys­ical aspects of sky­lighting.

2016
Cer­ti­fied by the Pas­sive House Insti­tute as a Pas­sive House Designer (CPHD) and con­tinues to pro­mote sus­tain­able design in his daily prac­tice.

Cur­rently
Man­aging his design-build prac­tice, WFORA & WFORC. Teaching Pro­fes­sional Prac­tice at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Archi­tec­ture, CUNY. Devel­oping a pre-fabrication busi­ness model. Living with his wife and two sons in Riverdale, NY