About Us

Founded in 1998 by Jane Smith, FAIA, Spacesmith is an architecture, planning, and interior design firm based in New York City.

Just as the word “smith” means “to craft, forge or design,” the name Spacesmith reflects our commitment to the tradition of great craftsmanship, heightened service, and design excellence. We believe that well-designed buildings and spaces are the result of creating meaningful experiences that engage the senses and enable physical, social, and psychological well-being.

With a distinctive portfolio of mission-driven clients, we have completed work for city, state, and federal agencies, schools, non-profit institutions, and private sector clients. Our firm is made up of a tight-knit group of professionals in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, project management, programming, master planning, sustainability, and wellness. The diversity of our team and practice areas allows for knowledge sharing in a world that is constantly evolving.

Sustainability is in Spacesmith’s DNA. Our firm has always been committed to seeking more sustainable methods, systems, and materials, with the belief that buildings not only need to be less harmful, but part of the environmental solution.

Mission Statement

Resilience, resourcefulness, and respect. These principles drive everything we do.

Spacesmith is a collective of diverse professionals with experiences and sensibilities that span typologies. Informed by research, collaboration, and a proven process, we design for timelessness, not trend. Whether we are spearheading ground-up projects or specifying individual materials, our work has a positive impact at every scale.

We begin every project by developing a deep understanding of our client’s mission and analyzing how we can amplify it through design. We consider the project’s context and its potential impacts on people and planet. This foundation drives us to create emotionally and physically nurturing spaces that communities ultimately make their own, in both tangible and transcendent ways.

When paired with our enduring aesthetic, this critical combination of caring about and for leads to longevity, a metric we associate with success—because we believe that timeless architecture is sustainable architecture is an architecture of understanding.