Interboro Partners (Georgeen Theodore, Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca)

Interboro Partners is an architecture, urban design, and planning practice focused on public projects for the public good. The firm was established in 2002 by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore, FAIA. Based in Brooklyn, the practice began with a series of wins of international design competitions — in which they focused on places that faced challenges (dead malls, shrinking cities, and inner-ring suburbs) — and by building a series of groundbreaking temporary public space projects. Today, Interboro works for and with cities and communities on everything from small public spaces to regional plans. The practice has earned accolades for representing “an ever-expanding concept of what architecture is, of how it acts on the world, but also how it is acted upon by individuals, institutions, ideas, idealizations, and objects.” Award-winning projects include LentSpace, a temporary sculpture park in lower Manhattan; Made in Midtown, a project with the Design Trust for Public Space researching Manhattan’s garment district; The Arsenal of Exclusion/Inclusion, a “dictionary” of policies, institutions, and phenomena that foster and restrict access to the built environment produced for the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam; the courtyard installation of the US Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale; and West Market Redevelopment Plan for the City of Newark. The office has received numerous grants and fellowships from various institutions, including the Design Trust for Public Space, the Graham Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Interboro Partners was selected by the Architectural League in 2005 to participate in the Young Architects Forum (now known as the Architectural League Prize) and were named the 2011 winners of the P.S.1 and MoMA Young Architects Program.