AKB ARCHITECTURE Works

AKB ARCHITECTURE WORKS is an architectural design and historic preservation firm founded by Adrienne Kate Brown in 2015. Current work includes renovations to townhouses and apartments in New York City.

AKB ARCHITECTURE WORKS believes that the most successful designs are those held accountable to history, theory, and the built environment. Working with the vernacular, we critically dissect buildings: manipulating, preserving, and re-using materials and spaces. We promote the idea that buildings and cities are in a constant evolution, much like their inhabitants, constantly adapting and seeking new modes for survival. AKB ARCHITECTURE WORKS weaves modern lifestyles with historic architecture, developing spaces that dissolve the boundaries architecture and interior design.

"Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination." -Jane Jacobs.

Adrienne Kate Brown

Adrienne is an architect, educator, and writer. She is a registered architect in New York and Illinois. Adrienne is a Part-time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design The New School. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and Barnard College. She has sat on juries at the Yale School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), Columbia University, and Arizona State University.

She received her Master of Architecture I from the Yale School of Architecture where her studies focused on preservation, new urbanism, and the evolution of the built environment. She holds a BA from Wellesley College. Originally from Michigan, she attended Cranbrook Kingswood School where she fostered a love of design through the counting of overlapping triangles in Eliel Saarinen's leaded glass windows.

Prior to founding AKB ARCHITECTURE WORKS, Adrienne worked at HBRA Architects and Tigerman McCurry Architects in Chicago, and Joseph Pell Lombardi and Associates in New York City.