Louise Braverman Architect is honored to receive a 2025 Architizer 13th Annual A+ Awards Best Global Firm Finalist Award. Founded in New York City, Louise Braverman Architect is driven by a deep passion to create architecture of art + conscience. Practicing locally and globally in exceptionally diverse settings, the studio has taken on the challenge to design impactful projects that merge cutting-edge design with low-carbon community connection, consistently creating aesthetically inventive architecture that resonates with all segments of society.

Global architectural projects

When working on architectural projects in varied parts of the world, the team at Louise Braverman Architect initially takes the time to investigate, learn, and synthesize what is unique and culturally meaningful to the indigenous population at each site. This specific research becomes the foundation for their initial design concept, which develops collaboratively over time to evolve into the final architectural built form.

That said, there is also a commonality that runs through all of the firm's work. Whether designing and building an amplified inventive disability compliant art museum for the elderly in the Bronx, New York, a net-zero dormitory for healthcare workers in an off-the-grid community in Burundi, Africa, or a green roof park covered art museum for an internationally acclaimed artist in Boticas, Portugal, Louise Braverman Architect believes that architecture is a pivotal democratic art form that has the power to positively affect the way in which we live. The team creates all projects, regardless of size or location, with the consistent goal of designing the most for the least, strategically crafting enhanced aesthetics in concert with minimum environmental intrusion.

Global environmental installations

The studio’s innovative global architectural approach has led to receiving invitations to present architectural installations at the past seven consecutive Venice Architecture Biennales, both at international exhibitions and at the United States Pavilion. The three-dimensional, audio-visual environments on display in Venice over the years are an outgrowth of the studio’s very early large-scale public installations, Poetic Light and Maps+ Movies, displayed within and on the 400-foot-long façade of Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

Pluralist universal conversation

The firm understands that architecture, at its best, can create a multi-layered conversation between disparate people, communities, and cultures. It believes that all that it designs and builds should promote such a pluralistic dialogue. Since its inception, the studio has taken a leadership role to empathetically work, both locally and globally, to innovate and create impactful design excellence in the context of enhanced low-carbon circular resilience, environmental care, and communal engagement.

Maintaining this mindset, the studio consistently taps its cultivated artistic impulse to create ethically valid aesthetic environments for all of us…our planet, our communities, and our people.

The firm is delighted that its approach has been recognized by the 2025 13th Annual Architizer A+ Awards.