Karen Bausman + Associates has won wide recognition as one of the leading voices in the field of architecture for our ability to integrate architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design.

In 2010 the City of New York awarded our firm a design excellence contract as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ambitious effort to bring the best ideas and technology architects have to offer to city-financed projects, especially in the quickly evolving area of sustainable design at environmentally sensitive waterfront sites where new recreational and cultural structures are being planned. We have completed the design of two new DPR buildings for Ferry Point Park, the Bronx. The 222-acre eco park, once a municipal landfill, is one of the largest underdeveloped sites along New York City’s waterfront.

The breadth of our firm's experience spans building design projects to site-specific installations, including the Progressive Architecture Award-winning Performance Theater for Warner Bros. Los Angeles and the International Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, a joint venture with HOK San Francisco for a new educational facility and campus in Napa Valley. Current projects include Flower Tower, a 16-story residential building of beauty, technology and ecological soundness for Long Island City, New York, and Untitled, a pavilion for contemporary art.

PRINCIPAL AND LEAD DESIGNER KAREN BAUSMAN, AIA, is responsible for the design excellence of all projects undertaken by her firm and collaborates directly with clients. She has successfully completed projects at such notable New York City landmark sites as World Financial Center, Rockefeller Center, and Ladies Mile, and for private clients that include Warner Bros. Records, Elektra Entertainment Group, and Newmark Knight Frank.

Karen's indelible mark on contemporary architecture has been widely acknowledged. In 1994 she was awarded the Rome Prize at a White House ceremony. Her work has won acclaim by the world's most prominent media including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, and A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (Japan), which published a 60-page monograph of her work.

Her drawings, models and installations serve as important media for expanding her concepts and have been exhibited extensively in museums, art galleries and universities from the United States to Europe to Asia, including the Gund Gallery at Harvard University, Artists Space, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Houghton Gallery in New York, the List Visual Arts Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and at the Galleria Arts + Architettura Moderna in Rome, Italy.

In addition to her professional responsibilities, and since receiving her professional degree in architecture from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York in 1982, Karen has made substantial contributions to architectural education. She has held the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture, Yale University. She was a faculty member of Columbia University's School of Architecture's Advanced Architectural Design Studio (AAD) from 1990 to 2004. Her design research into complex adaptive systems in nature is featured in INDEX Architecture, a Columbia GSAPP book published by MIT Press.