Andrea Steele Architecture (ASA) is a New York-based architecture practice focused on institutional, cultural, and community-oriented projects. With a growing studio made up of architects, interior designers, planners, strategists and educators from all over the globe, ASA approaches architecture as a way of creating connections and alignments: between a client’s culture and the public sphere; between the local and the universal; between thought and action.
ASA’s current projects include an innovation hub for NASA in Cleveland, Ohio; a cultural heart for downtown Brooklyn comprised of new cinemas and film archive for the Brooklyn Academy of Music; a production studio for the Brooklyn Public Library; galleries for the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts; and performance venues for 651 Arts in Brooklyn. Steele is currently completing the master plan for Pioneer Works, the experimental, interdisciplinary arts-and-science community center in Red Hook, Brooklyn which will bring NYC’s first public observatory.
The studio, previously TEN Arquitectos’ New York office, was established in 2003 and has produced more than 40 built works throughout the United States. Under Steele’s leadership, ASA is guided by the belief that architecture is the physical expression of our shared experience and is a key catalyst for cultural and social advancement. With each project, from private residences to civic complexes and large-scale master plans, the firm’s design approach is rooted in the idea of building a global community.
