Abruzzo Bodziak Architects

With diverse experience in ground-up buildings, interiors, landscapes, and historical restoration, Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak founded ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS, a Brooklyn-based architectural office, in 2009.

In our work, time-tested, economically viable and readily available methods of construction are used in the service of invention. Both vernacular styling and modern sensibilities inform our designs, which carefully focus attention on environments both built and natural, striving to give sense of place, engage community, or define one’s personal space. An iterative process, our creative methodology utilizes continuous dialogue.

With a commitment to detail in construction central to the practice, each project focuses on how architectural elements meet, pass and layer. Committed to employing ecologically sound practices and dedicated to clients' needs, we are critical of mass approach and engaged by design that is individual and yet responsible, visionary but also practical.

Recent projects include “The 4D Lightful Gardens,” included in Exit Art’s Vertical Gardens exhibition and also on view at The AIA San Francisco, a winning proposal for Somerville Massachusetts’ “Arts Union Beacon,” and “100 Straight Skeletons,” an investigation into the reuse of common suburban roof construction techniques and a collaboration with Gehry Technologies. Abruzzo Bodziak’s “Charlottesville Green” housing proposal is featured in the recently published book, Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model (William Stout Publishers). The firm’s work has been exhibited at numerous institutions including Columbia University, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and The Boston Society of Architects.

Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak are recipients of the 29th annual Architectural League Prize for young Architects and Designers.