Louise Braverman

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Biography

Practicing locally and globally, Louise Braverman FAIA is an award-winning architect whose firm is committed to building sustainable architecture of art + conscience. A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, she established her own practice in 1991 with a commitment to search for elemental solutions to complex architectural and urban problems, using common means to achieve uncommon results.

Her firm is a highly focused studio that designs artistically inventive institutional, residential, commercial, master planning and urban infra-structure projects that are situated in both their time and place. Recent work includes Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso Art Museum in Boticas, Portugal, Master Plan for a Sustainable Kigutu and Staff Dormitory in Burundi, Africa, Poets House Library at Battery Park City and the Derfner Judaica Museum in Riverdale. The Walton Family Foundation selected her firm in 2015 to be included in the inaugural Northwest Design Excellence Program, a pool of 36 designers that will contribute to the future of the urban landscape in Northwest Arkansas.

Her work has been widely published and recognized by her peers, including selection as an Architectural League’s Emerging Voice and elevation to fellowship in the AIA. She regularly contributes to the field by serving on design award juries including the 2012 Chicago Athenaeum GOOD DESIGN Awards and the 2014 AIA National Housing Awards. Recently she has been invited to present the work of her firm at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The work was shown in international exhibits in 2012 and 2014 as well as at the USA Pavilion in 2014.

Professional Registrations + Affiliations

Fellow, American Institute of Architects
NCARB Certificate
State of New York, Registered Architect
State of Connecticut, Registered Architect
State of Pennsylvania, Registered Architect

Selected Louise Braverman Architect Projects

Institutional

Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso Art Museum, Boticas, Portugal
Derfner Judaica Museum, Riverdale, New York
Poets House Library + Learning Center, Battery Park City, New York
Brooklyn Public Library-Highlawn Branch, Brooklyn, New York
Staten Island Community Charter School, Staten Island, New York

Housing

Chelsea Court Affordable Housing, New York, New York
Village Health Works Staff Residence, Burundi, Africa

Master Plan

Master Plan for a Sustainable Kigutu, Burundi, Africa
Staten Island Community Charter School Master Plan

Installation

“Architectural Essence”, 2014 Venice Biennale, Italy
“Kigutu” in Formation”, 2012 Venice Biennale, Italy
“Poetic Light”, Grand Central Terminal, New York
“Maps + Movies”, Grand Central Terminal, New York

Awards + Recognitions

2016 AIA National Small Project Award
2015 Blueprint Awards Shortlist
2015 Architizer + Award Finalist
2015 AIANY Design Award: Architecture Merit Award
2015 ArchDaily Building of the Year Award: Semi-Finalist
2014 Annual Design Review Citation Award: Architect Magazine
2014 Annual Design Review Honorable Mention Award: Architect Magazine
2014 Re-Thinking the Future Sustainability Honorable Mention Award
2014 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Design Award
2014 AIA NY State Design Award of Excellence: International Category
2014 AIA NY State Design Award of Merit: International Category
2014 Architizer A+ Special Mention Award
2014 AIA NYC/Boston Society of Architects Housing Award
2014 14th Venice Architecture Biennale
2013 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Design Award
2013 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Design Award
2013 Chicago Athenaeum Green GOOD DESIGN Award
2012 13th Venice Architecture Biennale
2012 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Design Award
2010 Chicago Athenaeum Green GOOD DESIGN Award
2009 Chicago Athenaeum International Design Architecture Award
2008 Louise Braverman elevated to FAIA in the American Institute of Architects
2005 Residential Architect Design Award of Merit
2004 AIA NYC/Boston Society of Architects Housing Award
2004 AIA National Housing Award
2003 AIA New York State Award
1997 I.D. Award: Best of Category in Environments
1996 Emerging Voice Award: The New York Architectural League
1994 AIA Long Island Chapter Award

Selected Exhibitions

2015 AIA NY Design Awards Exhibition at the Center for Architecture
2014 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Time Space Existence” Exhibit
2014 14th Venice Architecture Biennale: “US Office” Pavillion
2013 14th International Biennial of Architecture, Buenos Aires
2012 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Traces of Centuries & Future Steps”
2011 Contemporary Space Athens
2010 An Architect’s Legacy: James Stirling’s Students at Yale
2010 XV111 International Architecture Festival Zodchestvo, Moscow
2006 Edna Vihel Center for the Artes, “Workforce Housing”
2005 Fannie May Foundation Traveling Exhibit, ” Affordable Housing”
2004 National Building Museum, “Affordable Housing: An American Asset”
2003 American Institute of Architects New York State Convention
1997 AIGA ID Tenth Annual Design Review Exhibition

Selected Lectures + Panels

2015 The Chicago Architecture Biennale, “An Inclusive Edge”
2015 The Plan Magazine Perspective USA , “An Architecture of Art+Conscience”
2014 Art Basel Miami + Harvard Design Week, “Principled Design”
2014 Video, “Voices from Venice: A Global Dialogue for Women in Architecture”
2013 AIA NY Chapter, “Small Firms/Global Reach”
2012 Yale School of Architecture, “Pecha Kucha Yale Women”
2012 Cooper Union, “Sustainable Design + Knowledge Transfer in Africa”
2011 Greater Hudson Heritage Network, “Universal Design in Museums”
2011 Yale Club NYC, “An Architecture of Art + Conscience”
2011 CUNY 20th Century Art, “Elastic Boundaries”
2011 AIA NY Chapter, “Design Through Dialogue”
2010 AIA Newark, “An Architecture of Art + Conscience”
2009 Cosmopolitan Club NYC, “An Architecture of Art + Conscience,
2008 AIA NY Chapter, “The Intersection of Poetry + Architecture”
2008 AIA NY Chapter, “The Judaica Museum, Model for Aging Boomers”
2007 Morgan Library, Museum Educators, “Spaces for Learning”
2007 Ryerson University, “An Architecture of Art + Conscience”
2005 UIA 2005 Istanbul Conference, “Women and Architecture Today”
2005 Archeworks, Chicago, “An Architecture of Art + Conscience”
2004 Penn Humanities Forum, “The Domains of Sleep: Sleep Space”
2004 New Jersey Instititute of Technology, “Architecture-Women Space”
2004 New Jersey Institute of Technology, “Expanding Housing”
1996 Cosmopolitan Club NYC, “Women Architects Pushing Boundaries”
1996 The Architectural League, “Emerging Voice”

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