OPerA Studio Architecture is an award winning, full service design firm creating architecture and interiors in various scales and contexts. Our work includes residential, commercial, wellness, cultural, and educational spaces for new buildings and additions at multiple scales. We’re based in New York City with satellite offices in Kuala Lumpur and the Hudson Valley.

Our name stands for Operative Practice Architecture, a methodology rooted in the idea of OPERATIVE design. Each project begins with the identification of a diagrammatic strategy integrating space-making and composition with context, program, economic feasibility, light, experience, structure, and other factors. This approach allows each project to evolve a unique language and environment that is not solely reliant on style or aesthetics.

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WE SPECIALIZE IN

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN // INTERIOR DESIGN // ZONING AND CODE CONSULTATION PLANNING // REAL ESTATE SITE SELECTION // DESIGN TEAM SELECTION // ROUGH BUDGETING & SCHEDULING // MILLWORK & FURNITURE DESIGN // SPECIALTY LIGHTING DESIGN // LANDMARKS APPROVALS // HISTORIC RESTORATION // HISTORIC PRESERVATION // MASTER PLANNING // BRAND DEVELOPMENT // BUILDING ARCHITECT // OWNERS REPRESENTATIVE

 

 

 

Our Process

Operative Practice Architecture process begins with the client and the identification of a physical and material system that fulfills the project goals set forth. A generative system is defined with a flexibility that allows it to meet specific performance requirements as it is deployed throughout the project, particularly on-site and with interior environmental conditions. The results are a unique design object whose form is derived through a process preferencing performance over style while maintaining compositional and spatial quality.

 
 

Contact info

68 Jay Street, Suite 908 Brooklyn, NY 11201
thomas@opera-studio.com
917.523.1964