Nader Tehrani is a Principal leading the Boston-based architecture and urban design firm NADAAA. He is also the Dean of the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and previously served as the Head of the SA+P Department at MIT. A recipient of multiple prestigious awards including the... View full entry

Volkan Alkanoglu was educated in Germany and England and worked as a designer and project architect for Foster + Partners, Future Systems and Asymptote Architecture before establishing his own practice ‘VA DESIGN’ which is now based in Boston. In 2006, Alkanoglu was nominated for the Young... View full entry

Jennifer Bonner is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Director of MALL. Bonner was born in Alabama and attended Auburn University, where she received an AR Award for Emerging Architecture in 2005 for her undergraduate thesis project, Cedar Pavilion.She... View full entry

Eric W. Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop in Maine graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Architecture from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Since then, he has been practicing all across the Northeast. He brings a modern, regionalist design and his practice celebrates... View full entry

Leonard Bertaux and Chris Iwerks co-founded Bertaux and Iwerks Architects, located in Boston’s Leather District. The core of the practice focuses on Outcome-Driven design (ODD), which is a breakthrough methodology for re-structuring the design process around what’s most critical to... View full entry

Matter Design is a research-driven design firm founded by Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee in 2008. The founders are based in Boston and Ann Arbor where they practice and teach at MIT and the University of Michigan. With a focus on the intersection of drawing and making, the firm’s award-winning... View full entry

 Modelo recently interviewed Aniket Shahane the founder and principal of Brooklyn-based firm Office of Architecture. Shahane splits time between leading his firm and teaching at Yale University’s School of Architecture. Last week, he spoke to Modelo about starting the firm, his approach to... View full entry

Last week Modelo visited the offices of Aamodt / Plumb a Cambridge-based Architecture firm founded by partners, Mette Aamodt, AIA and Andrew Plumb, AIA. Mette and Andrew first met in graduate school at Harvard GSD. After they gained experience working at both boutique studios and large firms in... View full entry

Alfonso Medina is the award-winning founder of T38 an architecture and development firm based in New York City and Tijuana, Mexico. At only 32 years old he has built up his firm over the past 10 years focusing on the intersections of residential housing, urban planning and community development... View full entry

On a recent trip to New York, Modelo was able to meet with Stuart Narofsky, founder and principal of Narofsky Architecture. Stuart has been been an architect since 1983 and has received numerous accolades from the AIA including a recent Lifetime Achievement Award and his firm was selected as... View full entry

On a recent trip to New York City, Modelo spent some time in the Manhattan office of e+i studio with founders Eva Perez de Vega and Ian Gordon. While there they described their backgrounds, what brought them to New York, their dream projects and where they believe the future of architecture... View full entry

The 2015 Design Biennial Boston was unveiled July 16th in the Rose Kennedy Greenway space. The Biennial focuses on exhibiting the inspiring work of emerging architects and designers building their practices in Massachusetts. With the program a month in, Modelo was able to catch up with Cristina... View full entry

Last week, Modelo spoke with the founder ofblank studio design + architecture — Matthew Trzebiatowski. The firm, founded in 2006 is presently made up by four individuals and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. As a practicing architect, Matthew’s time is primarily focused on his business, but... View full entry

Susannah Drake is the founder and principal architect of DLANDstudio. This fall marks her 20th anniversary since graduating from Harvard GSD with both architecture and landscape architecture degrees. She has been doing architecture and landscape architecture since 1988. Last week Modelospent... View full entry

Recently, Modelo met with the founders of the up-and-coming Brookline-based firm Gunadi Lamere Design (GLD — pronounced Guild). Cynthia Gunadi and Joel Lamere described their approach to design, the genesis of their firm, and their most recent work “The Grove”, one of four pieces... View full entry

This week, Modelo had the pleasure of interviewing Christine M. West and Albert J. Garcia. West and Garcia are the Principals of KITE Architects Inc. The firm is based in Providence, Rhode Island and serves all of New England.On the beginnings of KITE:CW: KITE has had a presence in New England... View full entry

Last week, Modelo had a fantastic interview with Paulis Austrins and Sophia Chang, co-founders of architecture and design firm Studio PSchema. In the interview they share their outlook on design and where they see the architecture industry heading in the future. See the full interview below.On... View full entry

Last week, Modelo posted the first half of an interview with IK Studio’s principals Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim at their Cambridge office. Ibañez and Kim run the six-person architecture and design firm together in Cambridge and Philadelphia where they are involved as both practicing... View full entry

Last week, Modelo visited IK Studio’s principals Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim at their Cambridge office. Ibañez and Kim run the six-person architecture and design firm together both in Cambridge and Philadelphia where they are involved as both practicing architects and educators at Harvard... View full entry

On Monday, Modelo interviewed Synthesis Design + Architecture founder Alvin Huang. SDA is a growing Los Angeles-based firm with a global reach working on projects that range from actual buildings, to furniture, to public art and physical products.On SDA’s approach to design:The bottom line is... View full entry

Last week, Modelo had the opportunity to interview Mark Rukamathu and Michael Smith. The duo founded their design firm, rukamathu.smith in 2013 and are located in the heart of Somerville, Massachusetts. They sum up their design philosophy as follows:We have been a practice for 452 days.We... View full entry

Talanoa Lesatale, Regional Director of North America for NAGA LLC, took the time to speak with us about his experience as an architect, what makes NAGA unique, and the future of design.On the SCAD experience (Savannah College of Art & Design):I graduated from SCAD in 1999. It was a great... View full entry

Susannah Drake presenting at TedxGowanus (image credit TedxGowanus)Susannah Drake is the founder and principal architect of DLANDstudio. This fall marks her 20th anniversary since graduating from Harvard GSD with both architecture and landscape architecture degrees. She has been doing... View full entry