Deborah Berke Partners

Deborah Berke Partners is a New York-based architecture and design firm of over 50 people. The firm’s work includes a diverse portfolio of projects ranging in scale from campus master plans to custom furniture; they have experience designing residences, cultural and art facilities, hotels, and university buildings. The firm’s current roster of projects represents the range of their expertise. Deborah Berke Partners is the interior architect for Manhattan’s ground-breaking 432 Park Avenue residential tower; the architect and interior design team behind the 21c Museum Hotels, and the architect of Bard College’s Conservatory of Music. In addition to these largescale projects, the firm is also designing custom residences from New York City to the British West Indies. Berke is Professor (Adjunct) of Architectural Design at Yale University, a post she has held since 1987, and was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Prize, given by the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Berke previously taught at several other academic institutions including the University of Maryland, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Miami and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and The City University of New York. In 2005 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. Public service is an integral part of Berke’s professional life. She is a Founding Trustee of New York City’s Design Trust for Public Space and a Trustee of the Forum for Urban Design. Over the past two decades, Deborah has also served as Trustee and Vice President of desigNYC; Trustee of the National Building Museum; Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University; Trustee of the Brearley School; and a Vice President of the AIA New York Chapter. In addition, Berke serves as a juror in numerous architecture and design award programs and lectures throughout the US and Canada. She is the co-editor, with Steven Harris, of The Architecture of the Everyday, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 1997. In the fall of 2008, Yale University Press published a book on her firm's work — the first book on a contemporary American architect to be published by this esteemed academic press. It is simply titled Deborah Berke.