Julie Torres Moskovitz, AIA, WELL & LEED AP, CPHC is the founding principal of Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC. What drives her design practice is to engage in the world collaborating for thoughtful spaces and places where people and nature can thrive.

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 and LEED are other areas that she has focused office research.

She is a registered architect in New York State, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Washington and is NCARB certified, a WELL Standard and LEED accredited professional, and a Certified Passive House Consultant and Certified Passive House Tradesman (Building Envelope). Recently, she completed Regenerative Design practitioner series studies and is currently enrolled in LCA coursework at MIT.

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 master planning to fully-developed construction documents on public and private projects. She managed project managers, mentored, and was also in charge of intern and young architect experience. Prior to starting her own firm, she worked for Gluckman Tang Architects, Rice Lipka Architects plus 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 own 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.

She co-teaches a graduate class at NYU 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.