This First Friday Uptown Crawl will visit 4 firms in Harlem.
We will begin at MOS (226 West 135th Street, 10030). MOS is an architecture and design studio founded by architects Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith. An international firm, their architecture and design projects include private residences, multifamily housing, masterplanning, educational institutions, collaborative art installations, gallery spaces, cultural buildings, and furniture.
We will then head over to Body Lawson Associates (2307 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, 10030). Body Lawson Associates specializes in architectural planning, urban design, historic preservation, and interior design, with local, national, and international projects that range from multifamily housing to the rehabilitation of significant historic structures. The firm’s impact includes over 4,000 homes in supportive, workforce, transitional, and senior settings.
RUR Architecture (124 East 124th Street #3, 10035) is next. RUR Architecture has built a portfolio of work that ranges from large-scale infrastructural projects to texts on architectural theory. The firm frames its work as the product of “the collective knowledge of four generations of architects and designers from a diverse array of cultures and expertise,” in its own words.
We will end at JEROME HAFERD studio (345 East 104th Street 3rd floor, 10029). JEROME HAFERD studio is a Harlem-based, Black-owned practice that works primarily on public and community-driven built environment projects nationally and internationally, in both urban and rural contexts.
