Bryony Roberts Studio

Bryony Roberts Studio LLC is an award-winning design and research practice based in New York. We work across a range of scales from community engagement and programming to public art and urban design. We expand modes of design practice to address the lived experiences of communities and the current inequities of the public realm. Grounded in intersectional feminism, the studio learns from antiracist and disability justice movements to center embodied experiences often marginalized in the built environment, celebrating the full range of physical, emotional, and cultural experiences that people bring to public places. Moving between historical research, conversations with stakeholders, and material testing, the practice creates immersive environments that cultivate civic participation and public luxury. We explore experimental techniques of space-making, such as textiles, ornament, and performance, to produce sensory environments that activate the public realm and celebrate layered cultural narratives. With projects at international sites such as Lincoln Center, the Federal Plaza in Chicago, the Government Quarter in Oslo, and the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, the studio has extensive experience activating and transforming public spaces. Bryony Roberts Studio was awarded the Architectural League Prize of 2018 and New Practices New York from the AIA New York in 2020. The practice has received support from the Graham Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Rome, and has exhibited in the Chicago Architecture Biennial of 2015 and Performa 17.

For more about the studio, check out the recent profiles in Curbed, Fast Company, Madame Architect, and Architect Magazine.

Bryony Roberts is also a founding member of the global collective Feminist Spatial Practices and the design collective WIP Collaborative.

Clients and Commissioning Institutions

Lincoln Center, New York — The Shed, New York — High Museum, Atlanta — MAK Center, Los Angeles — Landmark Columbus, Columbus — The Arts Commission, Toledo — Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago — Dubai Design Week, Dubai — American Academy in Rome, Rome — Texas State Galleries, San Marcos — Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa — Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York — Hudson Square BID, New York

Bryony Roberts, Founder
Bryony Roberts is a designer, writer, and educator. Having earned her B.A. from Yale University and her Masters of Architecture from the Princeton University School of Architecture, Roberts leads her own interdisciplinary practice and teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. She has been awarded the Miller Prize of 2018, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for 2015­-2016, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Architecture for Summer 2018, and was a finalist for the Wheelwright Prize from Harvard GSD in 2020. She recently edited the volume Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice, and previously edited the book Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation published by Lars Müller Publishers and co-guest edited the volume Log 31: New Ancients. She has also published her research in the Harvard Design Magazine, Log, Future Anterior, and Architectural Record.

Team
Recent team members have included Tung Nguyen, Mariah Smith, Sadie Dempsey, Michael Hoehn, Deborah Garcia, Daniel Clark, Connor Gravelle, Carolina Murcia, Claudia Otten, Darle Shinsato, Sophie Jonson, and Maia Simon

Contact
bryony@bryonyroberts.com

Instagram
@bryony_roberts_studio

If interested in joining the team at Bryony Roberts Studio please send a cv and a link to a portfolio to hello@bryonyroberts.com

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