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David Lewis
LewisTsurmakiLewis, New York, NY     

5:30 p.m. , March 10
Shollmier Hall

Small budgets. Awkward spaces. Strict zoning. What most architects view as constraints fuel innovation at the award-winning New York City firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis. Founded in 1997 by twin brothers Paul and David Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, LTL’s work ranges from award-winning restaurant projects to speculative proposals to combat sprawl – imagine McMansions stacked atop big box retail stores. The firm is renowned for crafting portions of projects to achieve maximum tactile impact, using materials such as felt, bamboo, plaster casts and stacked colored acrylic. Current projects include the Arthouse at the Jones Center, a contemporary arts center in Austin, Texas that is featured in the March 2008 issue of Architectural Record.

LTL Architects was one of six American architectural firms featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. In addition, 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.” In 2002, LTL participated in the “Emerging Voices” lecture series organized by the Architectural League of New York. Their work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The firm’s principals have co-authored two books, the monograph Opportunistic Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) and Situation Normal....Pamphlet Architecture #21 (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).

A member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the firm actively pursues sustainable design practices. They are currently completing the design for a LEED-Silver project in Las Vegas, Nevada and have produced exhibition designs for The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design at the National Building Museum and Ten Shades of Green, commissioned by the Architectural League of New York.

David Lewis received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1988. He holds an M.A. in History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University (1992) and an M.Arch. from Princeton University (1995). In addition to his work at LTL, Lewis has taught at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University (Richard Trott Visiting Professor). He is currently an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he directed the Master of Architecture Program from 2002-2007.