DEBORAH AND ALAN have been collaborating on and off in the practice of architecture and planning since 1979 after meeting as graduate students in the Architecture Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2002 they joined as founding partners in an architectural design and consulting practice with a focus on civic, performing arts, higher education, institutional, retail, housing, and high-end residential work. Recent projects include The Shalin Liu Performance Center for Rockport Music, and The C. Walsh Theater for Suffolk University.
DEBORAH had been principal of, Deborah Epstein Architects, for 14 years, where her passion for the nature of materials, color, and composition has produced finely crafted, high-end, specialty design work. To support this she has developed extensive collaborative relationships with a wide range of craftspeople and artists. Deborah is also a weaver and fiber artist.
ALAN had been a principal at the nationally recognized firm of William Rawn Associates, where for 17 years as a Principal-in-Charge and/or Project Architect, he has designed community gathering places for such distinguished organizations as The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The North Carolina Symphony, The Santa Rosa Symphony, DreamWorks SKG, The Walt Disney Company, Phillips-Exeter Academy, The Lawrenceville School, Babson College, Bowdoin College, Trinity College, and Williams College. Alan is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT, a scenic artist for theater and dance, and an exhibition photographer.
TOGETHER and in their former practices their design work has been published extensively, and has received 56 local, regional and national design awards, including four National AIA Honor Awards.