FIRM PROFILE

LTL Architects (Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis) is a design intensive architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis engages a diverse range of work, from large scale academic and cultural buildings to interiors and speculative research projects, and realizes inventive solutions that turn the very constraints of each project into the design trajectory, exploring opportunistic overlaps between space, program, form, budget and materials.

LTL has completed academic, institutional, residential and hospitality projects throughout the United States. LTL’s work has been recognized with many publications and awards, including the AIANY 2019 State Firm of the Year Award, the 2019 Interior Design Hall of Fame, the #3 Top Firm in Design from the Architect 50, a National Design Award, as well as multiple AIA design awards. The firm was featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and its work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The principals are co-authors of five acclaimed books: Manual of Biogenic House Sections (ORO Editions, 2022), Manual of Section (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), Intensities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013), Opportunistic Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), and Situation Normal…Pamphlet Architecture #21 (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).

The firm’s recent work includes a 264 bed Residence at Fifth and Clyde for Carnegie Mellon University; the 14,500 SF Poster House, the first Poster museum in the U.S; the design of Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center + HighQ Education Center, one of the healthiest early childhood education centers in the U.S.; the 23,800 SF renovation of The ContemporAry Austin – Jones Center, a contemporary art gallery in Austin, Texas; the 2,750 SF renovation of the Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall at Columbia University; and the 28,000 SF renovation of The Students' Building at Vassar College. LTL Architects, along with Perkins+Will, Thornton-Tomasetti and ME Engineers, completed the 160,000 SF transformation of Upson Hall at Cornell University. Notable past projects include NYU Steinhardt School, Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University, Claremont University Consortium, and Arthouse at the Jones Center. The firm’s principals are on the faculty at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Parsons School of Design.

Firm CV  

Registered Architects: Arkansas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Wyoming

Clients:
The Architectural League of New York Brooklyn Public Library
Bronx Council on the Arts
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University Catholic University
Chow Down Management Inc.
Claremont University Consortium
The College of Wooster
Columbia University
The ContemporAry Austin (formerly Arthouse at the Jones Center)
Cornell University
Del America, Inc.
Everest Partners, LLC
Gallaudet University
Happy Mazza Media Company
Harley-Davidson USA
indiCo - National Association of College Stores
Ivalo Lighting Inc. Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy
Knoll
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
MGM Mirage City Center
Museum of Modern Art
National Building Museum
New York City Department of Design and Construction
New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
New York University
Ohio State University
Open Planning Project
Long Island Index
Pomona College
Poster House
Princeton Architectural Press
Seaman Corporation
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Syracuse University
Telluride Arts
UIA Management LLC
University of Wyoming
Urban Outfitters
Van Alen Institute
Vassar College
The Walton Family Foundation
Wieden + Kennedy
Wolf-Gordon
WS Development