LTL Architects is an architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David Lewis in

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. The firm received a 2007 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and was selected as one of six American architectural firms featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. LTL was included in the 2000 National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt and was selected in December 2000 by ''Architectural Record'' as one of ten firms representing a “Vanguard in Contemporary Architecture.”

Partner Background

Paul Lewis (born 1966) received a Bachelor of Arts from

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in 1988 and a Master of Architecture from

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in 1992. He is a fellow of the

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and the winner of the 1998-1999 Mercedes T. Bass

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in Architecture. He is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Princeton University School of Architecture. Marc Tsurumaki (born 1965) received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the

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in 1987 and a Master of Architecture from

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School of Architecture in 1991. He is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at

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. He was the Fall 2006 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. David Lewis (born 1966) received a Bachelor of Arts from

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in 1988, a Master of Arts in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from

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in 1992, and a Master of Architecture from

School of Architecture in 1995. David is as Dean of The School of Constructed Environments and Professor of Architecture at Parsons School of Design where he has taught since 2002.

Select Projects

Completed

The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center (formerly Arthouse at the Jones Center)
Austin, TX (2010)
Van Alen Institute
New York, NY (1998) *Bornhuetter Hall,

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, Wooster, OH (2004) *Fluff Bakery, New York, NY (2004) *Ini Ani Coffee Shop, New York, NY (2004) *Xing Restaurant, New York, NY (2005). Winner of the

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Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design (2007)http://www.starchefs.com/james_beard/2007/html/winners.shtml James Beard Foundation Award Restaurant Design *Glenmore Gardens
Department of Housing Preservation and Development project
, Brooklyn, NY (2007) *Office of Strategic Assessment, Planning and Design,

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, New York, NY (2007)

In Progress

*Nazareth House, Nazareth, PA *Department of Social and Cultural Analysis,

, New York, NY *Villa Ordos, Inner Mongolia (100 international architecture firms selected in 2008 to design 1,000 square meter villas fo
Ordos 100

References

*"Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities". New York:

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, 2012. *"Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture". New York:

, 2008. *Hudson, Jennifer. ''Interior Architecture Now''. London: Laurence King, 2007. *Yelavich, Susan. ''Contemporary World Interiors''. New York: Phaidon, 2007. *Gardiner, Virginia. "Design, Build, and Beyond." ''Dwell'', February–March 2006, 152–64. *Gregory, Rob. "Shifting Tides." ''Architectural Review'', December 2005, 85. *"Wave of the Future." ''Hospitality Design'', October 2005, 114–27. *Albrecht, Donald, Ellen Lupton, and Steven Skov Holt. ''Design Culture Now: National Design Triennial''. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000: 134–35.

Notes

External links

LTL Architects Homepage
*Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis. ''Situation Normal...Pamphlet Architecture 21''. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
Gendall, John. “LTL Gets Creative with Arthouse in Austin.” ''Architectural Record''. March 2008.
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