Haigh Architects

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

Acclaimed works include the Knoll Design Center in New York, a manufacturing office facility for Vitra, a comedy theater for Carolines on Broadway and the Brooks Brothers and SteubenGlass flagship stores.

The studios many prestigious Architecture awards include selection in the 1986 '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 Architectural Record Houses, the Annual Interiors Awards, AIA State and AIA National Honor 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 2002 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 runs 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.

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 Knoll, Artemide/Rezek USA, Vitra, SteubenGlass, Bernhardt, Baccarat, Brooks Brothers, RosenthalUSA, Esprit, Vecta, Steelcase, Herman Miller, DaumCristal and the Corning Museum of Glass NY.