Julie Torres Moskovitz, AIA, WELL & LEED AP, CPHC is the founding principal of Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC. What drives her architecture practice is engagement and collaboration with community and construction experts for thoughtful spaces and places where people and nature can thrive. She has practiced in NYC for twenty-five years and she is engaged locally in the Community Board (public appointed member of the Environmental Protection Committee) and on Advisory Boards (Street Vendor Project, Youth Design Center, and AIA Brooklyn Board of Directors).

She has over 25 years of experience working in architecture on private and public projects. Her expertise is with adaptive reuse and renovations to breath new life into buildings as hyper-efficient and comfortable environments for 2025 and beyond. She is a registered architect in New York State, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, and Washington and is NCARB certified, a WELL Standard and LEED accredited professional, and a Certified Passive House Consultant and Certified Passive House Tradesman in Building Envelope. She is also SAP-certified (Safety Assessment Program - California). Her practice is WBE-certified in NYC, NYS, and Port Authority. She provides sustainable expertise and acts in an advisory role as an Owner's Representative on projects while a design architect on other projects.

Most recently, Julie was Senior Associate, Director of Sustainability at WXY architecture + urban design leading projects in wellness and the public realm involving everything from visualizations and early activation on large campus sites to comprehensive planning to fully-developed construction documents for public and private projects. She managed project managers, mentored, and was also in charge of intern and young architect experience. Prior experience includes working for Gluckman Tang Architects, Rice Lipka Architects and several Design/Build firms on diverse large-scale project types such as museums, libraries, university buildings and galleries. Her experience at these firms and her experience as a principal of her own firm, brings an ability to problem-solve on complex sites with many stakeholders, manage a team, coordinate consultants, strategize and translate client goals, detail building envelopes and collaborate with builders and craftsman.

Research and continued learning is central to FNA's practice. She co-teaches a graduate class at NYU's Schack Institute on Design and Planning issues for Developers. She taught and presents on topics of environmental technology, eco-urban systems, and design studios at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and Parsons The New School. At RISD, she was a thesis instructor. She also co-teaches and presents to professional architects and engineers on topics in sustainability such as Local Law 97 and 31 for NYC or Passive House Design.

She received her Master of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA at the University of Michigan in African Studies and French. Her education has continued with on-going training in Passive House since 2010 including certification training in Dublin, Ireland as a Passive House tradesman specializing in the building envelope. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Regenerative Design, WELL standard, WEDG, and LEED are other areas that she has focused office research and gained expertise. In 2024, she trained for 6 months with Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice to gain insight and experience.