Continuing education is an important requirement for architects. We need to keep our team informed about new and evolving technologies, consistently expand our knowledge base, and understand the best materials available to our clients.
Read MoreJoin our Marketing Assistant Carly on an adventure through the architectural wonders of Spain!
Read More“A green roof at the Chapel Restoration in Cold Spring is enjoying a rebirth and will soon flourish — but rejuvenating the biologically diverse rooftop has taken nearly 15 years.” - Highlands Current
Read MoreJames Hartford talks with Zack Semke from Passive House Accelerator about how he sees the future of Passive House in New York.
Read More“The nature of experiments is that sometimes they don’t work over the long term, and updating becomes necessary."
James Hartford in Architectural Digest
Read MoreJuhee Lee-Hartford started River Architects in her Battery Park City apartment way back in 2002 - almost 22 years of learning, growing, creating, and designing. James Hartford joined the studio early in 2004 (happy 20th anniversary, James!), and the team has only grown since then. Happy New Year from all of us, here in our Passive House Institute US certified Hudson Valley studio.
Read MorePassive House is a building design standard that can reduce energy use by as much as 90% compared to conventional construction.
Read MoreSecret doorways and sustainable design standards are the way to our heart!
Read MoreSneak peek of from a custom kitchen in a Garrison, NY home. The details include recessing doors and a slide-out base tray to make the coffee pantry fully accessible and easy to clean.
Read MoreFrom Metropolis Magazine and DesignTV by Sandow, River Architects is honored to be featured in the first of their new video series, Natural Habitat, about homes that focus on beautiful design and meaningful sustainability.
Read More“To a lot of people, architecture is an intangible. It’s not something they understand. They can understand the work that an engineer does, so a building doesn’t fall down on them. They can understand the work a contractor does because they drive the nails or they apply the paint. But architecture is the art of the building, and that gets to be much more difficult for people to understand.”
Read More“I want to move people, create a space where people would feel lifted
spiritually, and make it worthwhile for someone to visit that space.”
Read MoreI was 29 years old and had just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship studying
Korean residential architecture when a friend introduced me to my very first
client, Oscar. He wanted to open a small bar in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. We
had a blast creating a “Cuban Lounge” on a limited budget. We even got published
in a few small media outlets.
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