LTL Architects | Profile

Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL) is an innovative, award-winning architecture partnership founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. LTL actively pursues a diverse range of work, from large scale academic and cultural buildings to interior architecture to competitions. LTL's approach is to realize inventive solutions that turn the very constraints of each project into the design trajectory, exploring overlaps between space, program, form, budget and materials.

The firm's work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally. LTL Architects received the 2007 National Design Award for Interior Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and was selected as one of six American architectural firms featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. In addition, LTL was included in the 2000 National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt and was selected in December 2000 by Architectural Record as one of ten firms representing a Vanguard in Contemporary Architecture. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis are co-authors of two books, the monograph Opportunistic Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) and Situation Normal....Pamphlet Architecture #21 (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).

Paul Lewis received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1988 and his M.Arch. from Princeton University in 1992. From 1993 to 1997, he worked at Diller + Scofidio. In 1998, Paul was awarded the Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. Paul has taught at Ohio State University, Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Parsons School of Design, and the Cooper Union. He is currently Director of Graduate Studies at Princeton University School of Architecture.