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HAIGHArchitects : Studio Overview


HAIGHArchitects have provided architecture and design services for a wide variety of cultural and commercial clients in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia for over 25 years.

Founded in New York in 1981, the studio is recognized as a leading architecture and design firm for it's portfolio of award winning projects.

Acclaimed projects include the Knoll Design Center in New York, the VitraUSA assembly facility, Carolines on Broadway comedy theatre, Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Sculpture Galleries and the Brooks Brothers and SteubenGlass flagship stores.

Architecture and Design projects and competitions include the John Kaldor's New York ARTApartment, National Parks Service : Heritage Center and Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum : Doghouse Installation, National Parks Service : Flight93 National Memorial, Van Alen Institute : tkts2k Times Square tkts Tickets Booth, Corning Museum of Glass 'Voices of Contemporary Glass' and the LMDC World Trade Center Site Memorial competition.

Architecture honors and awards include selection in the '40 Under 40' review of American Architects and as one of the Architectural League of New York 'Emerging Voices'. Architectural project awards include recognition in the American Institute of Architects State and National Honor Awards, Architectural Record Houses and the Annual Interiors Awards, Technical awards include a Lumen Award for lighting design and a United States Institute of Theatre Technology Merit Award. The studio received a Royal Institute of British Architects Award for the Blackpool Wind Shelters Competition in 2002.

Product design awards include multiple ID Awards and IBD Awards in addition to consecutive Progressive Architecture International Furniture Competition Awards. On an international level, projects have received awards in Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom including the Virtu Design Award, the East meets West and IFDA 2011 Competitions.

Paul Haigh is a former adjunct professor at Parsons : The New School of Design : Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting and a fellow of the Worldesign Foundation. He has served as chairman of American Institute of Architects Interiors Awards Committee and as member of  the American Institute of Architects and the Architectural League of New York. He currently directs an annual Vitra Design Museum/Centre George Pompidou design workshop in France.

Drawings and projects have been exhibited at both group and one man shows including the SoHo Guggenheim Museum and Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design in New York, Dentsu Gallery in Tokyo and the Royal College of Art in London and at the Triennale di Milano. The Studio was honored in 2003 at the Parsons : The New School of Design : Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting with an exhibition of work  HAIGH : Interior/Object/Exterior.

HAIGHArchitects studio projects have reached a broad international audience through publication in the architecture and design press and have been applauded by critics as "...innovative with a high degree of design rigor."


Studio architecture projects currently include museum, retail and exhibition design. On going furniture and object designs include glass collections, seating and lighting design. Current and past clients include Kaldor, Knoll, Artemide/RezekUSA, Vitra Design Museum, SteubenGlass, Bernhardt, Baccarat, Brooks Brothers, RosenthalUSA, Esprit, Vecta, Steelcase, Herman Miller, DaumCristal and the Corning Museum of Glass NY.


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