Firm Profile
Sergio Socolovsky Architect is a New York based full-service design firm that provides architectural services to a wide variety of cultural, hospitality, commercial, educational, mixed-use, and residential clients. As part of a comprehensive design process we evaluate each project in its entirety, consider the site, the cultural and economic environment, budget restrictions, as well as materials, construction techniques, real estate value, and post occupancy issues.
Our goal is to design unique and innovative buildings that enhance the inhabitants’ quality of life. We identify problems and find solutions by analyzing the relationship between space, activity, and human behavior. By implementing avant-garde design ideas in conjunction with sustainable architecture, environmental psychology, and neuroscience concepts, our projects are not only aesthetically beautiful and functional, but also strive to improve the user’s physical, mental, and social well-being.
Sergio Socolovsky, RA, LEED AP, Dipl. Arch.
Principal
Sergio Socolovsky has over 20 years of international architectural experience. Before he founded his own firm, he spent 18 years working in New York City as a Senior Architect for some of the most prolific architectural firms such as Ware Malcomb, SLCE Architects, Cetra/Ruddy Architects, and Karl Fischer Architect, where he managed projects ranging from 10,000 SF to 650,000 SF. He was also an architectural designer for several award-winning teams of prominent architects such as Peter Eisenman (New York), Zaha Hadid (London), and Itsuko Hasegawa (Tokyo). Additionally, he established and managed his own architectural firm in Uruguay.
He is a New York State Registered Architect and a LEED Accredited Professional. He holds a Diploma in Architecture and Architect’s License from the University of Uruguay, and a Master of Architecture from Science University of Tokyo, Japan, where he studied under renowned architect Kazuhiro Kojima. He is a Fellow of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Monbusho.
For Sergio, architecture is about designing buildings that will help improve human behavior, social interaction, and learning skills. He believes that a combination of understanding how our brain functions, how the physical environment affects its inhabitant’s behavior, and how we respond to our surrounding built environment is the starting point for creating buildings that will change our quality of life and the way we live. He sees buildings not only as spaces where people do activities, but also as spaces where people can reduce their stress levels and achieve better emotional balance, thus improving ones physical and mental health.