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Studio ST Architects is a full-service, woman-owned, architectural firm located in Manhattan. They are a New York City certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). The firm believes in innovative, sustainable and responsible design. They strive to combine leading technologies with evolving environmentally-friendly design and production methods, and apply these tools in creative ways.
Studio ST Architects designs residential, multifamily housing and institutional buildings, including new synagogues and other places of worship from the ground-up. Their renovations range in scale from community centers, schools and high-end apartments to affordable real-estate developments, including duplex renovations and apartment combinations.
Studio ST’s work has won awards and has been featured in architectural publications in North America, Europe, and Asia. Skokie Valley Synagogue won the 2023 Architecture A+ Awards and 2023 SARA National Design Awards. In 2008, Studio ST was selected by Wallpaper* as one of the “World’s 50 Hottest Young Architectural Firms.” The Swell House was selected by Architectural Record as “Best Unbuilt House” for 2008. In July 2009 they were selected for the best 40/40 exhibition in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Esther Sperber founded Studio ST Architects in 2003 after working at Pei Partnership Architects for more than five years during which she had the privilege of working closely with Mr. I. M. Pei. She was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. She graduated with a degree from the Technion and came to New York in 1997 to complete a master’s degree in architecture at Columbia University.
Esther has been writing and lecturing on architecture and psychoanalysis, two fields of praxis that strive to reduce human distress and widen the range of human experiences.
Lectures & Presentations
Building the Future Podcast
April 2023
Psychoanalysis and Culture - Book Launch
Youtube
May 2021
MicroPolis Homes: Lessons Learned about Housing During the Pandemic
The Plagues Project
January 2021
Home, the Pandemic, and the Jewish Holiday of Sukkot
HINENI Podcast
September 2020
Faith in Design
Youtube
Harvard GSD
March 2019
Mental Health in Architecture
Archinect Sessions
May 2018
The Poetics of Home: Between Psychological and Physical Structures
Youtube
Israel Museum
February 2017
Innovation – Invited presentation
APsaA Winter Meeting
New York, January 2016
Home and the Poetics of Space
Billie Pivnick & Esther Sperber
William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Synagogue Design
Youtube
Yeshiva University
Wednesday, November 3, 2015
Ethic After Psychoanalysis
The Task of a Past
Youtube
Boston, October 2015
Manifesto Fest
Psychoanalysis is Slow Therapy
Psychology and the Other conference
Boston, October 2015
Manifesto Fest
Spring Meeting of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
San Francisco, April 2015
Synagogue Design: Gender, Collaboration and the Practice of Architecture
The Jewish Theological Seminary
New York, March 18, 2015
Making a Case for Psychoanalysis
American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting, Invited Workshop
New York, January 14, 2015
Studio ST at 10: Designs and Collaborations
UMass School of ArchitectureMarch 2014
Sublimation - Building or Dwelling? Freud, Loewald and Architecture
Paper at the Loewald Memorial Conference, New York, February 2014
Design of Space for Communal Prayer
Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston, October 2013
Kissing Disciplines - Response Dr. Lew Aron's Keynote
Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston, October 2013
Wings of Daedalus: Towards a Relational Architecture
Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis & The Humanities at Yale, February 2013.
Relational Creativity; Architecture as a Case Study
Division 39 Spring Meeting, Santa Fe NM, April 2012
Relational Creativity, Architecture as a Case Study
AIA Santa Fe, NM, April 2012
Architectural Work with dZO
The Technion School of Architecture, Haifa Israel, 2003
Architectural Work with dZO
Betzalel Academy, Jerusalem Israel, 2003
Let's Move the Conversation From Demolition to Creating More Affordable Housing, Tue, Mar 10 '20
At the end of February, a surprising decision by a state judge revoked the approval for the top 20 floors of 200 Amsterdam Avenue, a market-rate, luxury, residential building on the Upper West Side in New York. The developers amassed air rights, using a zoning loophole to create a 39-sided ...
Op-Ed: From (EX)CITE to (IN)CITE, reflecting on Rem's Biennale, Mon, Jul 7 '14
EXCITERem Koolhaas, chief curator of the 2014 Venice Biennale, managed to excite us, again forcing us to rethink the Elements and Fundamentals of architecture. For me, this is the first time I felt a real desire to visit the show, which I have always imagined to be more like an amusement park for ...
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, BArch, Architecture
Archello Awards, Nomination
Studio ST Architects’ renovation for Skokie Valley Synagogue was part of the Archello Awards 2023 longlist for the best religious buildings of the year.
SARA National Design Award, 2nd Place
Skokie Valley Synagogue earned recognition for the Renovation, Restoration, and Adaptive Re-Use category.
Architizer A+ Awards, Honorable Mention
Skokie Valley Synagogue was selected as a Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Architecture +Renovation category.
Architecture & Design Collection Awards, 1st Place
Three awards were given to Skokie Valley Synagogue, Ansche Chesed Synagogue and the Jones Street Multifamily Apartments
Architizer A+ Awards Finalist, Award
MicroPolis was one of five finalists in the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards for the Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L>10 Floors) category.
Wallpaper* Top Fifty Young Hot Firms, Award
