About
We are service-focused. We integrate architecture, design, engineering, historic preservation, and materials conservation in our projects to ensure a structure’s new life is even better than its previous one. Our expertise encompasses Victorian buildings, as well as modern icons from the 20th century.
Our team offers deep knowledge of a range of historic materials and construction methods. This helps ensure our designs and recommended corrective actions are responsive to our clients’ goals and aspirations while remaining sensitive to each building’s original character and potential. We devise sustainable solutions that ensure future viability and create value.
Based in New York City, AYON Studio is MBE certified for work with both city and state agencies. We maintain a diverse and inclusive practice. We support collaboration and continuing education, as well as ongoing research and learning opportunities for our staff, consultants and clients.
What We Stand For
Mission
AYON Studio integrates architecture and historic preservation to help ensure the viability of significant properties. We engage in conservation, rehabilitation and adaptive reuse projects with public agencies, private property owners, cultural institutions, and individual homeowners.
Vision
AYON Studio seeks to transform the built environment with contemporary, sustainable and architecturally appropriate interventions. With every project, we strive to safeguard and enhance significant properties for the enjoyment of future generations.
Values
We are a community-driven firm committed to heritage conservation and preservation advocacy. We support property owners and neighborhood organizations in their efforts to safeguard significant buildings and sites. We think globally and respond locally.
Our Leadership
An award-winning citizen architect and preservationist, Angel Ayón has dedicated his 26-year career to not only preserving significant historic architecture but improving it—using contemporary technologies, more sustainable approaches, and resilient strategies. Committed to professional advocacy in practice, he leads AYON Studio, a values-driven, MBE-certified firm founded on this mission.
Angel co-authored the award-winning book Reglazing Modernism - Intervention Strategies for 20th Century Icons, influenced and supported by his international project work and research. Locally, his continued advocacy work with Save Harlem Now! and the Historic Districts Council has achieved meaningful influence at the neighborhood scale. He also is a member of the NY State Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol and currently serves on the boards of The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS), the Preservation League of NY State, and the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation.
Awards & Recognition
Association for Preservation Technology International, Lee Nelson Book Award for Reglazing Modernism, 2021
New York Landmarks Conservancy, Lucy G. Moses Preservation Organization Award for Save Harlem Now!, 2021
Municipal Arts Society of New York, MASterworks Award, Best Restoration for the Mount Morris Fire Watchtower in Harlem, 2020
New York Landmarks Conservancy, Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award for the Mount Morris Fire Watchtower in Harlem, 2020
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, New York State Historic Preservation Award for the Mount Morris Fire Watchtower in Harlem, 2020
Preservation League of New York, Excellence in Historic Preservation for the Mount Morris Fire Watchtower in Harlem, 2020
Victorian Society of New York, Award for Preservation for the Mount Morris Fire Watchtower in Harlem, 2019
US General Services Administration (GSA) Design Honor Award for Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza, 2014
AIA New York State’s Honor for Architectural Excellence in Historic Preservation for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009
AIA Westchester/Mid-Hudson Chapter’s Honor Award for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009
New York Landmarks Conservancy, Lucy G Moses Award for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009
Preservation League of New York, Excellence in Preservation for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009
International Concrete Repair Institute (ICRI), Award of Excellence in Low-Rise Category for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009
Grants
James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship for research on Reglazing Modernism, 2015
iLAB Collaborative Art Residency with dancer Sarah White-Ayón and 3D photographer Gerard Marks, Interactive Laboratory for Art and Dance (iLAND), 2008
CAF Artist Grant, Cuban Artists Fund (CAF), for preparation of Mount Morris Fire Watchtower website, 2004
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant, for post-graduate program at Columbia University, 2001