Category: General News & Updates

Announcing the Urban Design-Build Partnership

A new partnership has been formed between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture (SoA), Troy Architecture Practice (TAP, Inc.), Habitat for Humanity Capital District, Troy Community Land Bank, and architecture+. The project is called Urban Studio, which is comprised of two new Rensselaer Architecture studio courses, incorporating approaches to both new construction and renovation of… Read more >

architecture+ Hiring Senior Medical Architect-Planner

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Medical Architect-Planner with 10+ years of progressive experience in healthcare design and medical planning at our office located in the historic city of Troy in New York’s Capital District. The successful candidate will be a well-rounded and strategic thinker with an integrated approach to design, management, and technical project… Read more >

architecture+ Honored with Excelsior Award

Our recent interior renovation of Milne Library at SUNY Oneonta has been recognized with an Excelsior Award for Public Architecture. This award program is a collaboration between the American Institute of Architects New York State and the New York State contracting agencies (State University Construction Fund, Dormitory Authority State of New York, Office of General… Read more >

architecture+ Honored with Interiors Award

architecture+, a design and service oriented architecture and planning firm in Troy, New York, is pleased to announce that we received an Interior Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects Eastern New York Chapter for the Milne Library Renovations at SUNY Oneonta. The project was completed for the State University Construction Fund. Awards… Read more >

Bok and Cartrette named Principals

architecture+ is pleased to announce the appointment of architects Valerie Bok, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, and Arien Cartrette, AIA, as Principals of the firm. Valerie joined the firm in 1984 and Arien in 1998. Both are alumni of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and are currently collaborating on psychiatric facility projects in Wyoming and Texas. Valerie has… Read more >

Pitts of architecture+ receives national recognition

architecture+ has announced that Francis Murdock Pitts, FAIA FACHA OAA, has been named as the 2018 Changemaker Award recipient by The Center for Health Design’s Board of Directors. Given annually at Healthcare Design Expo & Conference, the award honors individuals or organizations that have demonstrated exceptional ability to change the way healthcare facilities are designed… Read more >

Borden joins architecture+

  architecture+ is pleased to announce that Julie Borden, who has worked as a student intern since May, has joined the firm full time as an Interior Designer. Borden, of Troy, New York, holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.