AYON Studio is privileged to have experienced Architect Lloyd DesBrisay join our team as a Senior Associate. A licensed architect for over 35 years, he has extensive experience on historic renovation, cultural, institutional, commercial, and residential projects worldwide and is driven by the quest for unique, practical, and effective solutions to complex architectural and interior design problems.
Prior to AYON Studio, Lloyd was on staff at other esteemed New-York City-based firms and was also a private practitioner for some time. Notable commissions, including the restoration of Louis I. Kahn’s influential Yale University Art Gallery museum building, won awards and were featured in international publications. Lloyd himself penned a 2018 article in DOCOMOMO Journal entitled “What Decides ‘Heritage’?: Lessons from a Comparison of Louis Kahn’s Commercial and Institutional Projects,” as well as the article “Yale University Art Gallery: Louis Kahn – Challenges for the Rehabilitation of Modern Museum Buildings,” published by Conservation of Modern Architecture, Routledge (formerly Donhead) in 2007. He has also worked on architectural projects for Harvard, Princeton, UPenn and St. John’s University, as well as Brooklyn Museum and Friedman Theatre.
Lloyd earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from University of California Berkeley, where he was awarded a Departmental Citation. He is also a proud Eagle Scout.
Welcome aboard, Lloyd!