studio is a vital, collaborative firm whose process is founded in research and investigation of new ways to inhabit the urban fabric.

FNA’s architecture and design is informed by an aptitude for green technologies, collaboration and commitment to equity, climate adaptation, and reimagining our architecture for common good.

We offer a full array of professional architectural services and work with clients on all scales of buildings including an expertise in adaptive reuse and retrofitting. We offer Owner's Representative and Sustainability Consulting Services.

Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC (FNA) is based in Brooklyn, NY. We are Certified Passive House Consultants as well as WELL AP and LEED AP. We are continually training for the latest innovations in building science and sustainability.

We are licensed in NY, NJ, GA, PA, CT and WA - and NCARB-certified. We are a WBE certified with the NYC SBS (#MWCERT2021-1075), NYS, and Port Authority NY/NJ.

Services include:
Research, illustrations, and visualizations for potential projects; feasibility studies; programming studies; resiliency, climate adaptation; energy studies and phased plans for decarbonizing your assets, embodied carbon tracking, jurisdiction filing drawings, owner's representation, sustainability, schematic, design development, construction documents, & construction administration, & interior design. We also can work with you to certify your project as Passive House, WELL, or LEED. Or take your project through Regenerative Design thinking.

Design
What motivates us is design experimentation and innovation to create new, never-seen-before spaces. We believe all communities should have access to high-performing buildings to live, learn, and work in.

Technical
We are adept at the challenge of working through bureaucracy, technical code, and review boards to move a project through to realization. We are experienced in working with many different reviewing agencies such as DOB, LPC, SHPO, DOT, DEP, NYCT/MTA, Community Boards, and the Public Design Commission in NYC. Torres Moskovitz has experience working with government agencies such as NYCHA, NYPA, NYSOPRHP, NYCHH and NJDEP. We have over twenty-five years of diverse experience working in NYC and in other regions. Our experience on decades of projects, led us to Owner's Representative and Consultation services to aid owners to see their project to completion tackling quality, time, and budget issues. Our special expertise is in retrofitting, adaptive reuse, and rehabilitation.

3 Pillars of Our Architecture Practice:

ENERGY PERFORMANCE & DECARBONIZING
We are interested in decarbonizing buildings through operational and embodied carbon reductions. FNA‘s Tighthouse project, the first certified Passive House in NYC (2012) launched us into a rigorous approach to hyper-efficient buildings and innovative places bringing a value-add.

CLIMATE ADAPTATION & RESILIENCY
Since Hurricane Sandy hit New York in the Fall of 2012, FNA has worked on resilient projects for FEMA and the NYC Build It Back (BIB) Program. Climate Adaptation includes future proofing of buildings, envisioning phased construction, demountable buildings, and incorporating flood resiliency, passive house, and renewable energy. We work with clients from project planning and ideation through to construction.

COMMUNITY & SOCIAL JUSTICE
FNA works with community groups, artists, organized union member organizations, advocacy groups and non-profits on all phases of design projects. We engage members in community workshops and as a team to help visualize projects of all scales including future large-scale site planning to exemplary building projects to temporary pop spaces and plazas.

Team

Architecture is a collaboration.
Thank you to the following talented collaborators.

Anna Korneeva
Ana S. Morris
Olivia Knott
Nico Carmona Guzman
Geraldine Vargas
Karina Hernandez
Christian Nyariki Oanda
Mahalakshmi Sivakumar
Edson Wong
Dongqing Ye
Lucas Keefer
Amanda Waal
Esther Chang
Erika Schmitt
Caitlin Sylvain
Jade Yang
Maggie Kirk
Stella Lee
Laura Trevino
Dan Asoli
Meghan Grimes
Thomas Kuei
Eylul Wintermeyer
Micah Stroup
Michael Schissel
Sasha Plotnikova
George Louras
Natalya Egon
John Tubles
Karin Tehve
Elizabeth Emerson
Suzana Belletiere
Asli Erdem
Michael Brehmer
Ben Oschner
Viviana Wang
Bill Watson
Luis Gil
Wade Cotton
Minyoung Song
Kim Letven
Corey Yurkovich
Will Hayes
Sarah Ludington
Omar Toro-Vacca
Michael Vanreusel
Abigail Coover
Cara Solomon
Nik Malkmus
Pablo Souto
Melissa Cicetti
Angela Co
Xiaoyin Li
Vanessa Keith
Artisan's Group
Caroline Yeh

Select Awards

2019-2020

Taconic Fellow at Pratt Center collaborating with Street Vendors on greening city street carts and practices

2017

Architizer A+ Awards Finalist for Unbuilt Residential Project

2016

Fellow at Institute for Public Architecture - Topic: Live/Work for the Workforce. Collaborative research with Angela Co & Xiaolin Li

2015

AIANY COTE Design Honorable Mention Award Tighthouse project-Passive House

2014

International Passive House Design Award, Tighthouse project.

2012

Passive House Institute Certification first NYC Passive House: Tighthouse project, Bkyn, NY

2011

Inc Magazine World’s Coolest Offices Finalist, Small Offices Category Leading Edge, Branding Agency, NYC, NY

2010

NY American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award Master Plan for East River State Park, collaboration design merged from 3 winning entrants

2010

Total Housing: Apartments Award by Storefront for Art and Architecture, Architizer, and Actar Living Lab, Pratt Institute. Sustainable retrofit of a dormitory unit. Course and Build-out.

2006

Michael Kalil Fellowship for Smart Design, Parsons, The New School for Design

2006

NYC Green Building Award from City of New York and DEP Factory Conversion to Residence and Artist Studios, Bushwick-Bklyn, NY. Collaboration.

2005

Winning Entry in Add Your Mark to the Waterfront Bottoms-Up Community- Sponsored Competition for masterplan of East River State Park, BKYN.

2005

AIA Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant

Author & Contributor

2019

Women Re Build Stories Polemics Futures. Published by Applied Research + Design Publishing. This book features 9 contributing authors. In Polemics section Author of “In Defense of Loft Law.”

2019

Live Work for the Workforce. Published by Institute for Public Architecture, “Drawing from Loft Law” co- authored by Julie Torres Moskovitz, Angela Co, and Xiaoyin Li.

2013

The Greenest Home; Superinsulated and Passive House Design. Published by Princeton Architectural Press. Author and researcher. This book features 18 recent Passive House residential case studies, introduces Passive House concepts, and includes technical data.