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Steven Holl Architects is an internationally recognized, innovative architecture and urban design studio with locations in New York, Beijing, and the Hudson Valley. Steven Holl founded the firm in 1977 and leads the office with partners Noah Yaffe, Roberto Bannura, Dimitra Tsachrelia, and Olaf Schmidt. Steven Holl Architects is recognized for the ability to shape space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to catalyze the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design at multiple scales, from minimal dwellings, to university works, to new hybrid models of urbanism. The firm has realized architectural works around the world, with extensive experience in the arts, campus and educational facilities, and residential work, as well as mix use and office design, public works, and master planning.

Discriminating clients in art, education, business, and culture turn to Frederick Fisher and Partners (FFP) for architecture that brings clarity, purpose, and delight to modern life. Museums and galleries, educational facilities, libraries, restaurants, urban plans and parks, community spaces, mixed-use developments, live-work environments, and private residences created by FFP are recognized for their rigor, beauty, and authenticity. Frederick Fisher and Partners’ contemporary work transcends scale—imparting calm, warmth, and intimacy, whether in a private art studio or a state museum. Guided by the four pillars of process, context, function, and aesthetics, FFP’s long-time partners—Frederick Fisher, Joseph Coriaty, and David Ross—approach projects as collaborations with clients, stakeholders, consultants, and builders. They engender trust in the careful stewardship of their clients’ resources, vision, and intent. Local context and global sustainability set the framework for architecture, interior design, urban planning, and exhibition design for such clients as the Annenberg Foundation, Princeton University, Huntington Library, Broad Art Foundation, Colby College, Caltech, and Houston’s Restaurants, among others. Through adaptive re-use, LEED accreditation, and continuously exploring and refining the use of materials and systems, FFP brings creativity and responsibility to design. This award-winning firm offers high design with high delivery of sophisticated, buildable, and community-oriented spaces with a relentless drive toward simplicity and directness. Art spaces heighten the aesthetic experience of the work they exhibit. Educational spaces reflect their missions with intellect and innovation. Dwelling spaces are comfortable and collaborative. Public spaces are contextual as well as surprising. While based in Los Angeles, FFP creates projects across the United States and worldwide.

Roger Sherman founded Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design (RSAUD) in 1989. He has personally been the recipient of many honors and awards, including being a finalist for the Ventulette Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech in 2004; presenting a paper at the "Pragmatism" Conference at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2000; being a Wheelwright Fellow at Harvard in 1995; and a Skidmore Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellow in 1984. In 1987, he and Edmund Chang earned the commission for the West Hollywood Civic Center by virtue of having won an international design competition from a field of over 300 entrants. Mr. Sherman currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Westside Urban Forum (WUF), and on the Advisory Board of Livable Places, a non-profit developer of affordable housing. He has also served on the City of West Hollywood's Cultural Heritage Advisory Board, and as a Partner of the Weingart Center Association, a homeless organization. Sherman is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UCLA's Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design, and was formerly Director of the FreshURBS postgraduate program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He was a Visiting Studio Professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 2001, and has both lectured and served as a visiting critic at a wide range of academic institutions, including Yale, Rice, Princeton, Michigan, Arizona State, and CCAC. Roger edited and was a contributor to "RE American Dream: Six Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995), and recently completed work on "Under the Influence: "Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property", forthcoming from the Univ. of Minnesota Press. His work and writing are widely published, including Los Angeles Magazine, L.A. Architect, G/A, Log, Places, Praxis, and several issues of Lotus, among other journals. Upon graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Sherman went on to attend Harvard's ...