Our Team
Louise Harpman
Louise Harpman is a Professor of Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainability at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is also an Affiliated Faculty member at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Faculty Fellow at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. She is the Founding Director of NYU Gallatin's BIG WALK, an annual event that forges community connections through "walking and talking" about different neighborhoods within New York City. She is a Founding Director of openEARTHstudio and Global Design NYU, two design and ecology-oriented working groups.
Through her private practice, Louise Harpman__PROJECTS, she leads or joins teams that focus on micromobility, urban streetscapes, neurodiversity, and net zero energy buildings. Before founding PROJECTS, she was recognized in Wallpaper* magazine as one of the “top 50 up and coming architectural practices from around the world.” She and her firm received multiple Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects, were named Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York, and were frequently listed as one of New York City’s “Top 100” architects by New York magazine.
Louise Harpman is co-author of Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned (Prestel), co-editor of Perspecta 30: Settlement Patterns (MIT Press), and co-author of Coffee Lids (Princeton Architectural Press), in addition to many popular and academic articles. She is member of the Board of Directors of Open House New York.
