DFA is a multi-disciplinary firm based in New York that sees Architecture as a critical yet playful mediator between program, materiality, and structure. The firm’s scope of work includes ground up projects and renovations, as well as interior architecture for retail, institutional, commercial, and residential clients.

DFA projects are distinctive in design, yet constantly attentive to the functionality of the spaces we execute. Combining a passion for contemporary culture with careful understanding of its constant ebb and flow, the studio consistently seeks out intelligent yet unexpected design results for its clients while maintaining schedule and budget. The studio also works at varying scales and technologies, moving from furniture, to interiors, to buildings, to large scale urban transformations all the while producing work of formal elegance and conceptual rigor.

Founding partner Laith Sayigh is originally from England and earned a masters degree in Architecture from Bartlett School of Architecture. He founded DFA in 2013 in New York after co-founding Sayigh Duman Architects in 2007 and working at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Skidmore Owings and Merrill in San Francisco.