ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS is led by Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak, who collaborated on projects, writing, model making, and furniture prototypes prior to the office’s formal start in 2009. Both licensed, LEED Accredited Professionals, Emily and Gerald met as graduate students at the Princeton School of Architecture. They are winners of AIA New Practices New York 2012 and recipients of the 2010 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers. Recent and current work includes ground-up buildings, interiors, and historical restoration as well as installations and architectural and landscape-based speculations. Engaged in discourse as well as building, Emily and Gerald are instructors at Parsons The New School for Design and are collaborative editors of Making a Case, 306090 14, which examines case studies for the future of American housing. Emily is a founding editor and publisher of the 306090 Books series, which was co-sponsor of the United States Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Selected Awards and Citations
2013 Selected for New York City Department of Design + Construction (DDC) Design Excellence Program
2013 AIA New York Design Award, Projects Category
2012 Winning Proposal, AIA NPNY Invited Installation Competition, AIA / NY Center for Architecture
2012 AIA New Practices New York, AIA / NY Center for Architecture
2011 Selected Design Team for desigNYC
2010 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, Architectural League of New York
2009 Winning Proposal, “What’s Your Problem” Competition, Gehry Technologies
2009 Winning Proposal, “Arts Union Beacon” RFP, City of Somerville, MA
2006 Winning Entry, “Edge As Center” Competition, Boston Society of Architects
Selected Exhibitions
2013 AIA New York: 2013 Design Awards
2012 Storefront for Art and Architecture: Past Futures, Present, Futures
2012 Center for Architecture: New Practices New York 2012
2012 Japan Foundation, Sendai, Japan: 3.11 - Architects’ Reactions to The Great East Japan Earthquake
2011 GD Cucine, New York, NY: desigNYC 2011
2011 The New Museum Festival of Ideas, New York NY: Audi Urban Future Initiative - Project New York
2011 Virginia Center for Architecture: Vertical Gardens
2010 Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton, OH: Constructed Territory
2010 The Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY: Architectural League Prize 2010 - ReSource
2010 San Francisco AIA: Vertical Gardens Exhibition
2009 Columbia University, New York, NY: 12 Alumni: Architecture, Change, Globality
2009 Exit Art, New York, NY: Vertical Gardens Exhibition
2008 Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY: White House Redux: 123 Ideas for a New White House
2006 Brickbottom Studios, Somerville, MA: “Edge as Center” Finalists’ Exhibition
2006 Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA: “Edge as Center” Finalists’ Exhibition