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• International Architecture Award Winner: Ministry of Taxes

  We're proud to announce that FXCollaborative's design of the new Ministry of Taxes tower has been awarded a 2021 International Architecture Award. ...

• 35XV and 888 Boylston Street Win American Architecture Awards

  Two of our projects, 888 Boylston Street and 35XV, won American Architecture Awards from the The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Desi...

• Night at The Museum

  The National Academy Museum & School opened its doors after hours on March 20th to a small but energetic group for B-Side's March Design Madness sk...

• Panel Discussion Explores Challenges Facing Megacities

  In collaboration with the National Academy Museum & School, we are the sponsors and co-organizers of a panel discussion that explores the challenge...

• Built by Women (BxW) of FXFOWLE

  We are thrilled to have four projects–(left to right) Alice Tully Hall, The Spence School, the Center for Global Conservation, and Hunter's ...

• FXFOWLE Exhibition: REVEALing Architecture

  The National Academy Museum & School in New York City presents an exhibition of our work from January 29 through May 3, 2015. REVEALing Architectur...

• ...Just a Hint at What's Possible

  GRASSHOPPER, PLATYPUS, AND MULTIPLE DESIGNERS Collaboration between Grasshopper users can be quite difficult. The 'streamlined' workflows of BIM s...

• Snapshots: Iceland

  The Snapshots series is an informal and personal photographic look at architecture and other forms of visual culture. In this edition of Snapsho...

• Seeing Eye-to-Eye at Opposite Ends of the Rope

  We are a firm that talks to each other; whether it's sharing inspirational ideas and concepts or participating in project design reviews, our proce...

• Entering the "Sketch Zone"

  Our second annual summer sketch crawl was a wonderful event, complemented by perfect sketching weather. We began with six sketchers, and were joine...

• Effective Strategies for Communicating Your Firm: Pitch Perfectly

  This past spring, I participated on a panel at the Society for Marketing Professional Service (SMPS) Northeast Regional Conference (NERC) that disc...

• Tête-à-Tête with Geneviève Roy

  Geneviève Roy is a painter living and working in Montreal. Originally from Quebec, Geneviève is a practicing architect and professor of interior ...

• Form, Function, and Flight

  We were recently given the rare opportunity to visit Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center at JFK, completed in 1962 and closed to airline traffic sinc...

• Generation X to Generation FX(FOWLE)

  FXFOWLE hosted a panel in conjunction with NYCxDESIGN that included three generations of FXFOWLE architects and designers who spoke about their per...

• Making Space for Success

  In gathering my thoughts to write this blog post I reflected upon the moments when I felt that I had achieved "success." This led me to question th...

• ICFF: Top 20

  Last weekend, interior designer Justyna Mrowiec-Chun and I were fortunate to go to the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at t...

• Collective 2 Design Fair

  FXFOWLE got a sneak peek of the Collective 2 Design Fair last week. Filling the Skylight at Moynihan Station, the fair brought together a highly-cu...

• LEED v4

  FXFOWLE is no stranger to the U.S. Green Building Council's green building rating system, LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. C...

• Perspective Tip 9

  Everyone loves a good story - stories are what bonds people together. For architects, the process of designing, and constructing is part of what gi...

• Thoughts on Sketching

  What lies behind the line of a sketch? Through the line, you can depict your relationship with the object, show character and mood. You can reflec...

• A School Grows in Erzurum, Part II

  The School Grows. Over the last 5 years I have had the privilege of working on other projects for Bilkent University, most notably a master plan a...

• A School Grows in Erzurum, Part 1

  Most people have never heard of Erzurum. It is a city located on a high desert plateau surrounded by mountains in Eastern Turkey. It is hard to g...

• Fowles of a Feather Party on McPherson Square (The Long and Hoot of It)

  Beer and champagne were flowing on the evening of February 27th as we celebrated the opening of our new office on McPherson Square in Washington, D...

• Perspective Tip 8

  The aim of perspective is to let the drawing do the talking. Due to the collaborative nature of architecture where design can be subjective, the pe...

• Memory and Measure: A Conversation with Anthony Viscardi

  For over twenty years, the practice of tracing shadows has informed the architectural investigations and pedagogy of Lehigh University Professor of...

• Commuting to Sketch

  Many people complain about their commute to work, but I don't because it gives me time to sketch. Sketching helps me to pass the time, relax, obser...

• Perspective Tip 7

  There are many aspects to architecture, but its presentation is what ultimately gives it a face. For architects, the architectural vernacular i...

• World Architecture Day 2013

  Following the successful launch of World Architecture Day last year in London, the event made its New York debut this year in early October. Among ...

• Perspective Tip 6

  In the latest installment of my top ten perspective tips, I will explain what to do if you want to draw a perspective and don't have access to the ...

• Citi Bike: A Networking Opportunity

  Recently, I took the plunge and purchased a yearly Citi Bike membership. Actually it was more like a dip or a slow submersion across the zero dept...

• Respect the Process

  In an era when renderings, magazines, blogs and even architecture websites tend to focus on the final design with little to no mention of process, ...

• Note to Self: A Day of Beauty

  My most recent blog post focused on one of the best days on the construction site: the day concrete slabs are poured. This time, I'd like to discu...

• Sketching with FXFOWLE

  At FXFOWLE, new experiences are usually good experiences, so when fellow designer June asked if I was willing to lead a sketch crawl, I was happy t...

• Madrid to Barcelona

  A few weeks ago, I traveled to Madrid to watch one of my favorite soccer teams, Galatasaray play against Real Madrid. Unlike New York, soccer can a...

• Inside the White Cube: A Personal Account of Designing the New OFS Brands Showroom

  About a year ago, the Director of FXFOWLE's Interiors Studio, Guy Geier, invited Erica Godun and I to his office for a meeting on what we thought w...

• Back to Basics with Louis Kahn

  In this age of computers generating complex forms and mesmerizing graphics, it is refreshing to visit a space that relies on bold simplicity of for...

• Perspective Tip 5

  Even with an understanding of the horizon line with its point(s), and a reference element using squares to aid in proportions, drawing a perspect...

• A View Above Istanbul

  Every sketch has a vantage point, and selecting one entails more than just finding the best view. The location of the vantage point should be seclu...

• Note to Self: Living on the Edge

  One of the best parts of working on a construction site is being there the day after they pour a concrete floor slab. Although the concrete is stil...

• Leaning In with Deborah Berke

  I have a new hero--I have to tell you all about her, and why I am so smitten. She is Deborah Berke, who leads a 40+ person architectural firm, win...

• Green April: Contemplating a Paperless Architectural Office

  Immediately following the April 1st announcement of PAPERCUT as the 2013 FXFOWLE Green April initiative, all paper in the office collected for recy...

• Perspective Tips 3 & 4

  Picking up where we left off in Perspective Tips 1 & 2, remember to start with a Horizon Line and point(s). I remember learning to construct...

• Note(s) to Self from Grand Central Terminal

  On February, 2, 2013, New York City celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Grand Central Terminal, a birthday which had special meaning to me. Like s...

• Perspective Tips 1 & 2

  Many years ago, I gave a lunch seminar on perspective drawing. It was my first step in advocating and sharing a "lost" architectural skill, one tha...

• Sketching a Day at the Office

  Architecture seems to be a profession that leaves one either without enough time, rushing to finish deadlines, or with too much time, in between pr...

• Postcards from Fuzhou, P.R.C.

  I had heard that building in China moves quickly, so I shouldn't have been surprised when, shortly after starting a new project, Partners Guy Geier...

• Bird Safety Legislation Slowly Taking Flight

  The last two years have seen significant progress on the prevention of bird mortality caused by collisions with buildings. Courts, lawmakers, plann...

• A Parametric Primer

  When it comes to parametric modeling, everything starts with a point. Two points make a line; two lines make a surface. With this basic set of comp...

• Photography: For What It's Worth

  In 34 years of doing business, FXFOWLE has amassed an overwhelming collection of visual material – slides archived in carousels; blueprints r...

• Note to Self: Construction Graffiti

  During my daily walk-thru of the Hunters Point South School construction site, I take photos for my weekly field report to the owner.  As I compos...

• King in the Queen City

  Every now and then I arrange a weekend trip to visit important buildings in the US. When asked by some friends to organize one such trip, I chose B...

• Future Fabulous

  When I received Sylvia Smith's invite to attend a forum hosted by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation I immediately RSVP'd – even with...

• Spring Greening

  "Green April," FXFOWLE's month-long celebration of sustainability and sustainable design, has now ended. Events and educational programs throughout...

• Looking Back on the City We Imagined and Made

  Last Friday, I stopped by the latest exhibition presented by The Architectural League, The City We Imagined.  I mainly went to check out the photo...