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Area served
  
International

Website
  
www.davisbrody.com

Founded
  
1952

Number of employees
  
>100

Founder
  
Lew Davis

Type
  
Partnership

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Industry
  
Architecture and Planning

Predecessor
  
Davis Brody & Associates Bond Ryder & Associates

Founders
  
Lewis Davis Samuel Brody Chester Wisniewski J. Max Bond, Jr.

Success story davis brody bond


Davis Brody Bond is a US architectural firm headquartered in New York with additional offices in Washington, DC. and São Paulo, Brazil. The firm is named after Lewis Davis, Samuel Brody and J. Max Bond, Jr. Davis Brody Bond is led by five partners: Steven M. Davis, William H. Paxson, Carl F. Krebs, Christopher K. Grabé, and David K. Williams.

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The work of the firm includes architectural and urban design projects for major universities, national, state and local governments, and other forms of public, private and institutional clients in the sectors of housing, museums, health care and education. Notable projects include National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and the Portico Gallery at the Frick Collection.

In May 2012, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Davis Brody Bond were selected as the winners of the National Mall Design Competition for Union Square.

Major awards

Davis Brody Bond has been honored with more than 175 major design awards including:

  • Presidential Award for Design Excellence
  • Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor given to an architectural practice by the American Institute of Architects
  • Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence
  • Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture
  • Notable projects

  • National September 11 Memorial & Museum
  • Frick Collection addition of the Portico Gallery
  • National Mall Union Square redesign
  • Manhattanville phase I + II implementation of Columbia University's new campus
  • New York Public Library Main Branch Major renovations and addition of the South Court
  • Audubon Ballroom Historic preservation and addition
  • District of Columbia Public Library Benning Library, Shaw Library
  • Firm history

    Founded in 1952 in New York by Sam Brody, Lew Davis, and Chester Wisniewski, Davis, Brody and Wisniewski (now Davis, Brody, and Bond) rose to note by realizing well designed social housing for New York City, such as Waterside Plaza. While the firm has expanded far beyond its original boundaries, the legacy of quality New York City work to the benefit of New Yorkers is still a keystone of the firm's design philosophy. After J. Max Bond, Jr. joined the partnership in 1990,. the firm became Davis Brody Bond in 1996. From 2006 - 2011 Davis Brody Bond was in partnership with Aedas. In 2010 Davis Brody Bond took an ownership interest in the architectural and interiors firm Spacesmith, a certified Women's Business Enterprise; the firms are housed together within the same office in New York.

    References

    Davis Brody Bond Wikipedia