On View: Green City, Blue City, Old City, New City

On View: Green City, Blue City, Old City, New City

Green City Blue City is a ISTUDIO x WAAC collaboration. ISTUDIO architects and designers met with Virginia Tech’s WAAC (Washington-Alexandria Architect Center) students weekly to create a design for...

Press Release: Schneider Elevated to College of Fellows

Press Release: Schneider Elevated to College of Fellows

ISTUDIO Architects is pleased to announce that founder and principal Rick Harlan Schneider has been elevated to the College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects (AIA). The honor, given...

Welcome Kavya

Welcome Kavya

We’re growing! Introducing Kavya Veda Sarma - ISTUDIO team member Vivek Sarma's first child born on March 6th! Her name refers to poetry, literature, and the Hindu scriptures. She gets bigger by the...

On the Boards: Van Ness Elementary School

On the Boards: Van Ness Elementary School

At Van Ness Elementary School the learning happens outside as well as inside. Every square foot of this tight urban site was planned to provide inspirational places for learning. The vision for this...

On the Boards: Arboretum Recreation Center

On the Boards: Arboretum Recreation Center

Stepped, planted patios integrate outdoor gathering spaces with artful storm water management.A bronze perforated metal screen wall is a nod to the original mid century modern facility with the added...

Notes from an Awards Juror on the AIA Framework

Notes from an Awards Juror on the AIA Framework

The AIA is redefining what we refer to as great design in this age of climate action. With the Framework for Design Excellence design awards are not just a beauty contest. To be sure, it’s both a...

ISTUDIO Collaborates with Virginia Tech Students to Re-Imagine a More Sustainable D.C.

ISTUDIO Collaborates with Virginia Tech Students to Re-Imagine a More Sustainable D.C.

In this age of climate action our studio is working with a team of students from the Virginia Tech Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center to re-imagine green space, blue infrastructure, living...

ISTUDIO Projects Win AIA Baltimore Excellence in Design Awards

ISTUDIO Projects Win AIA Baltimore Excellence in Design Awards

ISTUDIO Architects is pleased to announce that three of it’s projects won the 2020 AIA Baltimore Excellence in Design Awards.Powell Elementary School won Award for Excellence in Environmentally...

ISTUDIO Projects Win AIA NOVA Design Awards

ISTUDIO Projects Win AIA NOVA Design Awards

We are excited to share that three of our projects win 2020 AIA Northern Virginia Design Awards.Powell Elementary School win Award of Merit in Institutional Architecture; Tubman Elementary School win...

Studio Wellness in the Face of Covid-19 Pandemic

Studio Wellness in the Face of Covid-19 Pandemic

We had another team talk recently about life and work in times of pandemic. Our colleagues brought up the added stresses we face now that the weather is changing and days are getting shorter....

Studio Salon 02 – Designing with Water

Studio Salon 02 – Designing with Water

“Do not build any homes below this point.” “High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants. Remember the calamity of the great...

ISTUDIO Principal Rick Schneider testifies before the Washington DC City Council

ISTUDIO Principal Rick Schneider testifies before the Washington DC City Council

ISTUDIO Principal Rick Schneider testified before the Washington DC City Council in the days before Coronavirus became the news.Rick lauded the DC Department of General Services (DGS) for their...

Dogon Eco-tourism Center and Trail Wins Rethinking the Future Award

Dogon Eco-tourism Center and Trail Wins Rethinking the Future Award

We are honored to receive the Rethinking the Future 2020 Award for the Dogon Eco-tourism Center and Trail.  ISTUDIO developed this vision for eco-tourism in East Africa with inspiration from Dogon...

Marvin Gaye Recreation Center Wins AISC Award

Marvin Gaye Recreation Center Wins AISC Award

We are excited to announce that Marvin Gaye Recreation Center won the 2020 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture Award (IDEAS²) Merit Award.  Thank you to the American Institute of Steel...

We're Hiring: Staff Architect/Emerging Project Architect

We're Hiring: Staff Architect/Emerging Project Architect

Description: We are an award-winning, collaborative firm focused on sustainable, artful, community-minded projects.  We see design as serving the greater good.  We value ‘small studio’ culture:...

FAB Public Program Series - Resilient Cities

FAB Public Program Series - Resilient Cities

Join us as ISTUDIO Principal Rick Schneider presents case studies in design for resilience. Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Director of the WAAC of the CAUS-VT moderates, with panelists Kevin Bush, Chief...

ISTUDIO Delivers Awards to DC Department of General Services

ISTUDIO Delivers Awards to DC Department of General Services

It’s been an award-winning year! Principal Rick Schneider and the ISTUDIO team delivered a bevy of design awards to Director Anderson and the team at DC Department of General Services. Great,...

NAIOP Awards of Excellence - Best Institutional Facility

NAIOP Awards of Excellence - Best Institutional Facility

Powell Elementary School has been awarded an Award of Excellence, Best Institutional Facility by NAIOP DC|MD. We are very grateful for the recognition that this project has received and for the...

Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention

Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention

We are pleased to announce that Marvin Gaye Recreation Center won an Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention in the category of Concepts-Plus-Architecture + Climate Change! This international award...

ISTUDIO x DesignDC 2019

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ISTUDIO x DesignDC 2019

Principal Rick Schneider presents recent case studies in civic architecture that emulate powerful forces of nature to build community resilience. Washington, DC is leading the way as a member...