Design Advocates is a network of experienced architecture and design firms, advising firms, and individuals who volunteer their time and expertise and collaborate on projects, research, and advocacy to serve the public good.
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Board of Directors
Michael K. Chen, MKCA President
Fauzia Khanani, Studio For Vice President
Abigail Coover, Overlay Office Secretary
Jane Lea, Lea Architecture Treasurer
Nicholas McDermott, Future Expansion Director
Leadership Group
Alexandra Barker, Barker Associates Architecture Office
Marrina Boontheekul, makeSHIFT Architecture
Wes Hiatt, Boroughworks
Robert Hon, Boroughworks
Carolynn Karp
Rebecca Rand, makeSHIFT Architecture
Clementina Ruggieri, S4A Space 4 Architecture
Jieun Yang, Habitat Workshop
Member Firms
1+1+ Architects
ABCL Studio
Adriana Hinojosa
aligned design
Amy K Boyd Photography Studio
Andrea Steele Architecture
Architecture + information
Architecture Outfit (AO)
BalsaCrosettoPiazzi
Barker Associates Architecture Office
BL-IP
blk-dr architecture & development
Borough Works
Build Yourself / Proactive Practices
Cedar Street Creative
Chao Architect
Chris McKenna Design
Collaboration55
Crissalas
Crutcher Landscape Architects
Daedalus Design Lab
Daniel Romualdez Architects
Daniela Friedman
e.g. Projects
E4H Architects
Emma Heneghan Design
Engineering Solutions
Fahey Design Build
Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC
Glickman Schlesinger Architects
gregory merryweather: architect llc
Habitat Workshop
HALATSIS ARCHITECT
Harper Design Build
Harry Toung Architect
Henry Ng Architecture
Hoffmann Architects
Homecoming
Jennifer Bowles Design
Kahen Design
KPLUSC LLC
L+R
Landscape Architecture Bureau
Leonard Colchamiro Architects and Planners
MA studio
Mammoth Projects
marymoore DESIGN
MontesBuild
Morris Adjmi Architects
Office of Human Resources
Outside Voices Creative Consulting
Partum Interiors
Peoples Design Collab
PritchardPeck Lighting
Quattuor Creative Intelligence
Rachel Starr
Rexrode Chirigos Architects
Schuler Shook
Side Lab Studio
Silver Shoe Design
The Turett Collaborative
Thornton Tomasetti
Tiffany Carlin AIA
Urban X Studio Architecture PLLC
VIDDAM
WAKE design development
Walter P Moore
weetu
William Pevear Architect
Young Projects
*Co-Founder
Individuals
Gabriel Halili
Merica May Jensen
Naomi Dwork
Spoorthi Bhatta
Beth Carliner
Meg Kalinowski
Mia Tsiamis
Luke Cregan
Nicholas R. Friedman
CoCo Tin
Tovah Kaiser
Harshika Bhatt
Daniela Friedman
Sasha Topolnytska
Gabriel Chan
Casie Kowalski
Emi Day
Daisy Orlana Ramli Kirschen
Emily Paulson
Partnerships
NYC Economic Development Corporation
AIANY /The Center for Architecture
Neighborhoods Now
Van Alen Institute
Urban Design Forum
NYCxDesign