ABOUT
We are an ideas-driven design firm.
Architecture has a profound effect on shaping lives, influencing how people work, live, play, learn, and even how they feel. Our practice seeks to improve people's lives and our built environment through thoughtful, relevant, and humanistic architecture that delights, surprises, and inspires its users.
While our design solutions are unique and specific to each project, our design process of listening, exploring, testing, and questioning is a constant. By working closely with our clients and collaborators across disciplines, the best ideas emerge and often lead to unexpected solutions.
Our projects' reach goes beyond the property lines. Architecture is inextricably tied to its real world context, operating within the fabric of the built and natural environments. Accordingly, our projects respond to their specific time and place by creating and strengthening connections, revealing latent possibilities, providing legibility and definition, and positively impacting their surroundings and communities.
ERIC EPSTEIN, AIA, LEED AP
Principal
Eric leads the design of each project and provides hands-on direction and coordination of the work. Eric's broad range of experience includes public and private schools, civic buildings, multi-family developments, private residential, mixed-use developments, commercial, retail, restaurants, theaters, assisted living, judicial buildings, recreational and sports facilities, urban design, and master planning.
Prior to founding Epstein Architecture, Eric was a partner at Dattner Architects. Before that, he was an associate and senior project designer at several distinguished design firms including Gruzen Samton, Helfand Architecture, Rockwell Group, and Paul Rudolf Architect.
Eric has taught architecture undergraduate and masters level design studios and is an occasional visiting critic at architecture schools.