1980s
1981 ATTIA & PERKINS
Brad Perkins + Mary-Jean Eastman
Brad Perkins and Mary-Jean Eastman originally met at Llewelyn-Davies International in the 1970s. Brad moved to Perkins + Will in 1977, and Mary-Jean followed a year later. While there, Brad served as the Managing Partner of the Eastern offices while Mary-Jean ran the major design studios. They partnered with Eli Attia to form Attia & Perkins in 1981, which is where the Perkins Eastman story begins.
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Bradford Perkins
Co-Founder | ChairmanBradford Perkins, Co-Founder | Chairman
Brad’s career spans 50 years, and he’s directed major projects in all the firm’s key practice areas across 30 countries. He’s the author of 10 books, including the 2021 publication of The Architect’s Guide to Developing and Managing an International Practice, and he’s lectured at nearly two dozen colleges and universities. He currently serves on the faculty of Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
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Mary-Jean Eastman
Co-Founder | Vice-ChairMary-Jean Eastman, Co-Founder | Vice-Chair
Since co-founding the firm with Brad Perkins, Mary-Jean has held a career-long commitment to designing and building programmatically complex buildings. Over the past 25 years in particular, she’s largely focused on healthcare projects, enabling great advances in patient-centered care with pioneer clients like the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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1981 New York Headquarters
The firm begins operating on two floors in a small building at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street across from its largest project at the time, Republic National Bank. By 1997, the firm had expanded to four non-contiguous floors in that building and decided it was time to move. Perkins Eastman relocated one mile south to the current headquarters at 115 Fifth Avenue. Operations continue to grow here until it becomes the largest architectural office in New York, requiring expansion into portions of two more floors. The New York office headquarters today, which is divided into four architectural studios and one planning, strategic consulting, and landscape studio, has specialist leadership in each of the firm’s 18 practice areas.
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PROJECTS
1981 - 1982
Brazil • Canada • Italy • Paraguay
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1983 – 1985 Bradford Perkins & Associates
Brad Perkins buys out Attia’s interest in the firm and reorganizes the practice as Bradford Perkins & Associates.
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J. David Hoglund
PrincipalJ. David Hoglund, Principal
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Jonathan Stark
FAIA, PrincipalJonathan Stark, FAIA, Principal
A founding PE Principal
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PROJECTS
1985 - 1989
Miami Jewish Home & Hospital
Consumers Union
Clarendon Library
Frederick Fleming Residence
Friedman House
Canterbury Green
South Norwalk Waterfront
New York Foundling Hospital
Morse Geriatric Center
St. George Seaport
Shea & Gould
Embassy Suites Parsippany
College of Mount Saint Vincent
Montefiore Nursing Home
1985 – 1990 Perkins Geddis Eastman
The firm’s name changes again when Barbara Geddis, Brad Perkins and Mary-Jean Eastman become partners. By 1988, the firm is up to 50 employees and becoming well known for its generous use of flexible work schedules and parental leave, according to Inc. magazine. Its project work expands into Spain, Italy, Paraguay and Uruguay.
1990s
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1991 Perkins Eastman
The firm acquires the name as it’s known today when Barbara Geddis steps down in 1991. A rapid period of growth begins, in which Perkins Eastman opens its first regional offices in Pittsburgh and Toronto and starts acquiring other architecture firms such as Quick Ledewitz, Sherwood Mills & Smith, and Susan Black Architects. Its international work expands further into Asia, with projects in Japan and China.
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Doug King
PrincipalDoug King , Principal
An early leader in Senior Living
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1994: 107th Precinct in Architectural Record
1994 Quick Ledewitz
1994 Pittsburgh, PA
Perkins Eastman’s first regional office is now the largest architectural firm in the city. Its work encompasses office buildings, senior living communities, higher education, and work environments for Fortune 500 companies.
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Nicholas Leahy
Co-CEO | Executive Director<br>Arts + Culture Practice LeaderNicholas Leahy, Co-CEO | Executive Director
Arts + Culture Practice LeaderClick image for full bio
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Alan Schlossberg
Principal | Executive DirectorAlan Schlossberg, Principal | Executive Director
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Michael K. Lew
PrincipalMichael K. Lew, Principal
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Christine Schlendorf
PrincipalChristine Schlendorf, Principal
The late principal was a leader in K-12 Education.
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China • France • Japan • Mexico • Oman
1996: Queens Civil Courthouse: AIA Justice Facilities Review
1997: Queens Civil Courthouse featured in The New York Times
1996 Sherwood Mills & Smith
1998 BFJ Planning
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1998 Stamford, CT
Located in the “City that Works,” the Stamford studio has served urban and suburban clients and communities throughout Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Possessing one of the more diverse practice-area portfolios of all the Perkins Eastman offices, the Stamford studio has experience in Multi Family, Mixed Use, Workplace, Interiors, Senior Living, Higher Education, K-12, Science and Technology, Healthcare.
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1999: Queens Civil Court in Architectural Record
1999: Queens Civil Court in Contract magazine
1999: Brooklyn Supreme & Family Courthouse featured in the New York Times
1999 Susan Black Architects
1999 Toronto, ON, Canada
Perkins Eastman’s first international studio is established in Mary-Jean Eastman’s native Canada. The Toronto team works with the firm’s other global studios to create innovative environments from Ontario to British Columbia.
2000s
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Jeffrey Brand
Principal | Executive Director
Healthcare Practice LeaderJeffrey Brand, Principal | Executive Director
Healthcare Practice LeaderClick image for full bio
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Daniel Cinelli
PrincipalDaniel Cinelli, Principal
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Francis Gunther
PrincipalFrancis Gunther, Principal
A former leader in Healthcare
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Stuart Lachs
Managing Principal, Stamford
Residential Practice LeaderStuart Lachs, Managing Principal, Stamford
Residential Practice LeaderClick image for full bio
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Mark van Summern
PrincipalMark van Summern, Principal
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Jerry Walleck
Managing Principal, ChicagoJerry Walleck, Managing Principal, Chicago
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2001 Charlotte, NC
Perkins Eastman merges with MedArc LLC, an architectural firm specializing in Healthcare, thus establishing a presence in Charlotte where we can better respond to growing needs in the Southeast. An additional merger shortly thereafter expanded the practice area to Healthcare Interiors, and in the ensuing 20 years, the Charlotte studio has added Higher Education, K-12 Education, Senior Living, and Commercial Mixed Use to its portfolio.
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2001 Chicago, ILPerkins Eastman acquires the nationally ranked Senior Living architectural and consulting group from the Chicago firm OWP/P to form the core of a new office in the Midwest.
2001 Perkins Eastman establishes its first local green committee, a grassroots network that continues to grow in offices across the firm.
2001: Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools, First Edition, by Brad Perkins
2001: Brooklyn Supreme & Family Courthouse featured in The New York Times
2001 MedArc LLC
2001 OWP/P Senior Living Group
2002 Van Summern Group
2002 Roesch Landscape
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Azerbaijan • Bermuda • Croatia • Czech Republic • Dominican Republic • Ecuador • Great Britain • India • Korea • Qatar • Russia • Senegal • Tanzania • Thailand • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Ukraine • Vietnam
2003: NYC OCME DNA Forensics Biology Lab in the Wall Street Journal: “DNA Paves Way for Crime-Lab Makeovers”
2003: The Architect’s Guide to Design-Build Services by Brad Perkins (with G. William Quatman II FAIA Esq., Jonathan N. Stark FAIA, and Ranjit Dhar FRAIC)
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PROJECTS
2004 - 2006
TKTS Booth + Father Duffy Square
Hopkins-Nanjing University Center
Jinan South City
Shanghai World Expo 2010
NewBridge on the Charles
Kendal on Hudson
Brooklyn Supreme & Family Courthouse
Duke University Medical Center Emergency Department
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
Wanliu Shopping Center
New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
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2004: Building Type Basics for Senior Living, First Edition, by Brad Perkins
2004: China Travels with Perkins Eastman in Architectural Record
2004 Healthcare Interiors Inc
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2005: Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Chinese Edition, by Brad Perkins
2005 Akol Architects
2005 Larsen Schein Ginsberg Snyder
2006 Urbanomics
2005 Shanghai, China
After operating for 10 years in China, Perkins Eastman establishes a full-service Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise office in Shanghai. Since that date, the firm has completed 140 million sf of buildings in China.
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PROJECTS
2007-2009
Hanoi Capital Master Plan to 2030
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Indoor Facility
Avenues: The World School
Cyber Garden
Concordia International School Shanghai: Elementary School
Centria
Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital
Park Hyatt Saadiyat
Harlem RBI: DREAM Charter School
Huizhou HuaMao Center
2006 The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum is the first Perkins Eastman project to receive LEED certification, followed shortly after by the Felician Sisters Convent and High School in Coraopolis, PA
2007: International Practice for Architects, First Edition, by Brad Perkins
2007 Basler Mosa Design Group
2007 Liebman Melting Partnership
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2007 Boston, MA
The Boston studio opened to expand Perkins Eastman’s presence and better serve its client base in Northern New England and the Senior Living practice area in particular. The initial Senior Living, Mixed-Use/Residential and Higher Education sectors were later supplemented by K-12 Education when we merged with the Design Partnership of Cambridge in 2016 and Workplace/Interiors with the addition of Packard Design in 2018.
2007 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
As part of the merger with Basler Mosa Design Group, this was our first studio established in the Middle-East/North Africa (MENA) region as Perkins Eastman embarked on the large Park Hyatt resort on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. The firm has since been recognized among the Top Ten in the Middle East. It provides crucial local management support for MENA-region projects across many practice areas, including Master Planning, Mixed Use, Residential, and Hospitality. That support means that even if a project is being designed in a U.S. studio, the firm can hold client meetings in the local time zone on that project, such as Kuwait University in Kuwait City, and in Saudi Arabia, Aramco’s New Community in South Dhahran and Dallah Hospital in Riyadh.
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2008: Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Second Edition, by Brad Perkins
2008: Building Type Basics for Senior Living, Chinese Edition, by Brad Perkins
2008: Architect’s Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm, by Brad Perkins (with Peter Piven)
2008: Concordia International School Shanghai in Architectural Record
2008 Mumbai, India
The firm establishes a full-service office in Mumbai to serve a wide variety of K-12, Higher Education, Healthcare, Science & Technology, Urban Design, Residential, Hospitality, and Commercial Mixed-Use clients in the South Asian region.
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2008 Guayaquil, Ecuador
Perkins Eastman retains an existing group to form the core of an office serving the firm’s growing roster of clients in South America, integrating local professionals with established firmwide practice-area leaders to develop projects in this region of 100 million residents between Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. The office also provides collaborative project support to the firm’s North American locations.
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2010s
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Algeria • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Bahrain • Bangladesh • Belgium • Bhutan • Cambodia • Colombia • Cote D’Ivoire • Egypt • Germany • Ghana • Greece • Hong Kong • Hungary • Indonesia • Ireland • Jordan • Kuwait • Laos • Libya • Malaysia • Morocco • New Guinea • Nigeria • Papua New Guinea • Peru • Saudi Arabia • South Africa • Sri Lanka • Sweden • Taiwan • Uganda
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Hilary Bertsch
Principal | Executive Director
Managing Principal, Austin
Large Scale Mixed Use Practice Leader
Transportation + Infrastructure LeaderHilary Bertsch, Principal | Executive Director
Managing Principal, Austin
Large Scale Mixed Use Practice Leader
Transportation + Infrastructure LeaderClick image for full bio
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James Butterfield
PrincipalJames Butterfield, Principal
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Peter Cavaluzzi
Principal
Large Scale Mixed Use Practice Leader
Transportation + Infrastructure LeaderPeter Cavaluzzi, Principal
Large Scale Mixed Use Practice Leader
Transportation + Infrastructure LeaderClick image for full bio
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Stanton Eckstut
PrincipalStanton Eckstut, Principal
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James Greenberg
PrincipalJames Greenberg, Principal
Former expert in Higher Education
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Barbara Mullenex
Principal | Executive Director
Managing Principal, DCBarbara Mullenex, Principal | Executive Director
Managing Principal, DCClick image for full bio
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Sean O’Donnell
Principal
K-12 Practice LeaderSean O’Donnell, Principal
K-12 Practice LeaderClick image for full bio
PROJECTS
2010 - 2013
The Wharf
Huishan North Bund
Ashoka University
Dunbar Senior High School
Memorial Sloan Kettering Evelyn H. Lauder Breast and Imaging Center
New York Stock Exchange: Next Generation Trading Floor
Stony Brook University Simons Center
NYU Langone Health: Ambulatory Care Center at Cobble Hill
Wuhan International Education Center
835 Sixth Avenue
Antara Dehradun
Guangzhou Metro OCC Headquarters Building
Indian School of Business
Lekhwiya Sports Complex Khalifa Stadium
Providence College: Ruane Friar Development Center
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2010 San Francisco, CA
The first Perkins Eastman office west of the Mississippi opened in Oakland, CA, in 2005 through a merger with Dan Akol Architects, a firm specializing in Healthcare. The office moved five years later to San Francisco, and has expanded to be the west coast center for Senior Living. By merging with LBL in 2015, the San Francisco office added significant large-scale Healthcare projects. Three other mergers—with ForrestPerkins in 2016, Dougherty & Dougherty in 2018, and VIA in 2021—added Hospitality Interiors, Higher Education and Civic projects, and City Planning, Residential, and Transportation projects to the studio’s portfolio. The firm added an additional office in Oakland, coming full circle from where we began.
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2011 Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn
2011 Janson & Tsai
2011 S9
2011 Washington, DC
Perkins Eastman and Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn merge. EE&K’s New York office moved into Perkins Eastman’s New York headquarters, and Perkins Eastman’s fledgling office in Arlington, VA, moved into EE&K’s Washington office. The combined DC office soon grew to become the firm’s second-largest studio, with work in most of its 18 major practice areas.
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2013: “The 30-Minute interview with Bradford Perkins,” New York Times
2013: Mary-Jean Eastman featured in “Words with Masters,” Interiors + Sources magazine
2013: Avenues in Architectural Record
2013: Building Type Basics for Senior Living, Second Edition, by Brad Perkins
2013: Sheikh Khalifa Specialist Hospital makes cover of Healthcare Design
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2014 Perkins Eastman signs the AIA 2030 Challenge and submits data for the first year to demonstrate its commitment and progress.
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2015 Los Angeles, CA
Perkins Eastman merges with LBL Architects to broaden the firm’s Healthcare expertise in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The studio’s work also includes Large Scale, Government, Higher Education, Senior Living, Commercial, Workplace, and Hospitality projects.
2015 Perkins Eastman establishes a firm-wide Sustainability Team and launches a series of initiatives to support sustainability more deeply.
2015 Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, receives LEED Platinum certification, becoming the highest-scoring new school in the world. It’s called “a masterpiece of a green learning environment” by the USGBC Center for Green Schools.
2015 LBL
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2016: Josie Robertson Surgery Center featured in Contract magazine
2016: DREAM Charter School featured in Architectural Record
2016: Brad Perkins serves as editor of The Architecture Student’s Handbook of Professional Practice.
2017: Dunbar High School one of “25 Must-See buildings in Washington, DC,” USA Today
2016 ForrestPerkins
2016 Design Partnership of Cambridge
2016 Dallas, TX
With the January 2016 merger with ForrestPerkins, Perkins Eastman established its first Texas office. Building on the established presence of the ForrestPerkins studio, specializing in luxury Hospitality Interiors and Multi-Residential interiors, the projects expanded to Hospitality Architecture, Senior Living, Master Planning, and Urban Design.
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PROJECTS
2017 -2019
Target Field Station
Tenement Museum
MarinHealth Medical Center: Oak Pavilion
The David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Stanford Hospital
St. Regis Amman Hotel & Residences
Charter Oak International Academy
Lenox Health Greenwich Village
New York University: Winthrop Research Institute
99 Hudson
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2018: Metropolis magazine features Rutgers Nursing
2018: Charter Oak International Academy featured in Architectural Record
2018 Dougherty & Dougherty
2018 Packard Design, Inc.
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2018 Oakland, CA
When it originally opened in 2007, the Oakland studio allowed Dougherty + Dougherty to expand its public-sector focus from its headquarters in Costa Mesa into Northern California, where founding partners Brian and Betsey Olenick Dougherty began their architectural careers. When the Oakland and Costa Mesa studios merged with Perkins Eastman, the partnership expanded their depth and success of K-12, Higher Education, and Municipal Government projects along the West Coast. The Oakland studio, often sharing office culture and staff with the San Francisco office, enjoys the camaraderie of the Perkins Eastman family.
2018 Costa Mesa, CA
Perkins Eastman and Dougherty + Dougherty merged on May 1, 2018, representing K12, Higher Education, Municipal/Government, and private non-profit clients in the Western Region. It is a pleasure to collaborate with other studios in the convergence of practice areas, and in the pursuit of sustainability and design excellence with worldwide talent.
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2019 Perkins Eastman is awarded the Latrobe Prize In partnership with Drexel University from the AIA College of Fellows. This prize includes a $100,000 grant to conduct a study entitled “Addressing a Multi-Billion Dollar Challenge: Advancing Knowledge of How High Quality School Environments Can Positively Affect Educational Outcomes.”
2019: The Wharf in Urban Land magazine
2019: The Wharf in New York magazine
2019: “Perkins Eastman’s New Studio in Chicago’s Rookery Honors Old and New,” Interior Design
2019: Cover story: “Mary-Jean Eastman Helps Pave the Way for Women in Architecture,” Interiors & Sources
2020s
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PROJECTS
2020 - Present
The Hermitage Hotel
Wuxi Symphony Hall Complex
The Whittle School & Studios Suzhou
Park Hyatt Marrakech
Mayo Clinic Destination Medical Center
Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
West/John Lewis Elementary School
Anantara Mina al Arab Ras Al Khaimah Resort
Rutgers University School of Nursing and Science
UCSF: Parnassus Heights Master Plan
Brooklyn STEAM Center
Algeria • Chile • China • Ecuador • Georgia • Kazakhstan • Kenya • Kuwait
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2020 Raleigh, NC
Perkins Eastman’s second North Carolina studio will serve this technology-based economy in one of the nation’s fastest growing regions. The office will build on the firm’s strengths in the commercial Mixed-Use, Science & Technology, Corporate Interiors, Higher Education and K-12 practice areas.
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2021 Austin, TX
After working on projects across Texas for more than a decade, the firm’s second Lone Star studio opened to better respond to the explosive growth taking place in this region across all sectors. Principal Hilary Bertsch FAIA, a proud Longhorn alumna, moved down from New York to manage this new studio.
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Michael Stevenson
Managing Principal, North Carolina
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2021 Vancouver, BC, Canada
After working together for several years, Perkins Eastman merged with VIA, an established architecture and urban planning firm in the Pacific Northwest. VIA began in 1986 as Baker McGarva Hart in advance of the Expo ’86 World’s Fair.
2021 Providence, RI
While geographically close, the regional distinction from our Boston studio lead to the recent opening of our Providence workspace to help build on the cultural and civic bonds that existed within our Primary, Secondary and Higher Education sectors.
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2021: Healthcare Design features MSK Koch
2021: Covid Centers of Excellence: Fast Company
2021: Interior Design magazine features Vyv
2021: The Architect’s Guide to Developing and Managing an International Practice, Second Edition, by Brad Perkins
2021 Seattle, WA
Bringing lessons from Vancouver’s swift transition into the “world’s most livable city,” VIA opened its office in Seattle in 1999 to support transit-system planning and design. It will maintain the studio as a new Perkins Eastman presence.
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Wolf Saar
Managing Principal, Seattle | Vancouver
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William Murray
Managing Principal, Los Angeles
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Frances Halsband
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Michael Nieminen
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2021 Perkins Eastman DC receives the JUST Label from the International Living Future Institute. It evaluates social justice and equity within an organization. This milestone kick-starts the process for pursuing JUST at a firm-wide level in support of the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative.
2021 Kliment Halsband Architects
2022 BLTa
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2022 Singapore, Singapore
Perkins Eastman opened a studio in Singapore to capture growing business in the Asia Pacific region outside of China.
2022 Philadelphia, PA
Perkins Eastman merged with the venerable Philadelphia firm BLTa, which was founded in 1961 as Bower & Fradley and whose early commissions included International House, Market Street East, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. The firm became Bower Lewis Thrower/Architects in 1979, and the name was shortened to BLT Architects in 1995. Its work covers much of the Eastern seaboard and all market sectors, particularly historic renovation and adaptive reuse projects, large hospitality commissions, and complicated transit projects. Once BLTa became A Perkins Eastman Studio in 2022, several Perkins Eastman employees relocated there as a result.
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Michael L. Prifti
FAIAMichael L. Prifti, FAIA
Former Managing Principal, BLTa—A Perkins Eastman Studio
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2022 Perkins Eastman launches its Sustainability Resolution and the firm’s first-ever State of Sustainability Report, which is now an annual publication.
2022: Supriya Thyagarajan Is Featured in Madame Architect
2022: Perkins Eastman’s Senior Living projects featured in Fast Company
2023: Co-CEO and Executive Director Shawn Basler Featured in ArchDaily
2023: Perkins Eastman’s Avandell dementia village featured in The New York Times
2023: The Business Report ranks Co-CEO Shawn Basler No. 27 of New York’s top 50 business leaders
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Larry “LB” Byars
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Sarah Fox
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Cristi Landrum
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Michael Hess
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V. Noel Bryan
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Raymond E. Brower
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John Shoesmith
Principal
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2024 “Addressing a Multi-Billion Dollar Challenge,” a far-ranging, years-long study on the beneficial impacts of school modernization on student, teacher, and staff performance and well-being, is published. Perkins Eastman, in partnership with Drexel University, undertook the study as the result of winning the AIA College of Fellows’ Latrobe Prize in 2019, which came with a $100,000 grant. J+J Flooring also contributed $30,000 to the effort.