Valerie Schweitzer Architects

Valerie F. Schweitzer AIA aims to construct inventive spaces that draw out the expressive potential of a place. Schweitzer explores specifically the overlap of art and architecture foregrounding a conceptual clarity. Each of her structures communicate a central purpose. That purpose might be the transporting dimension of an artists’s studio or the playfulness of a Los Angeles apartment building. Her award-winning work, based on well-researched site-specific conditions, attempts the shoring up of the human spirit. Having worked at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Ferguson Shamamian, Malhotra Architects, and Gruzen Sampton, Schweitzer established in 2009 her own practice in Brooklyn, New York. Schweitzer began her architectural studies at Princeton, where she graduated cum laude and received from the Philosophy Department both the Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics, and the Alexander Guthrie McCosh Prize for best thesis. Schweitzer received her Masters of Architecture, (M.arch), with distinction from UCLA's Department of Architecture and urban design. She is registered in both New York State and Connecticut, NCARB certified and AIA.