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

We offer a full array of professional architectural services and work with clients on all scales of buildings and sites. We have expertise in adaptive reuse and retrofitting. In addition to architecture, we can provide Owner's Representative and Sustainability Consulting Services.

FNA's mission is to engage and collaborate with you to bring hyper-efficient performance to your building but also design and joy to spaces both in the public and private realm.

Let’s reimagine architecture for common good. Let’s repurpose and adapt city infrastructure enhancing it for people to thrive and live healthy lives. Fete Nature Architecture is about celebrating nature and learning from and respecting it. Finding "new ways to inhabit the urban fabric" means that we can collaborate with you to help build your community, your home, or your institution. We will listen and incorporate your vision and share our expertise in design, adaptive reuse, and sustainability to create unique and vital spaces.

Design
What motivates us is design innovation and attention to detail to create new, never-seen-before spaces. We believe that 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 WBE-certified in NYC (SBS #MWCERT2021-1075), New York State, and Port Authority NY/NJ.
We are licensed to practice in NY, NJ, CT, GA, PA, OH, and WA. Julie is NCARB-certified. We are certified passive house consultants, WELL standard and LEED certified. We are Regenerative Practitioners.

Services include:
Full Architecture Services
Comprehensive Planning & Strategy
Feasibility and Programming Studies
Passive House, Resiliency, and Decarbonizing Approaches
Owner’s Representation
Sustainability Consulting

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
Danielle Aspitz
Barbara Hammond

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.