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Trahan Architects has promoted several integral staff members in both its New Orleans and its New York City studios. The internal promotions include Oana Bunea-Velea as Technical Director; Sean David as Senior Project Manager; Ciarán Conlon as Senior Design Architect; Travis Lombardi as Senior Project Designer; Andrew “Drew” Hutcheson as Senior Project Designer; Kyle Culver as Senior Project Designer; and Gabriela Calzada as Designer.

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Paúl loves discovering simple, elegant solutions to complex design challenges. A licensed architect in New York State with 19 years of professional experience, he combines wide-ranging technical expertise with a collaborative leadership approach that listens and responds to input from clients, consultants and contractors alike. He has worked with clients across cultural, academic, commercial, and government sectors domestically and abroad. Paúl contributed to the design of several award-winning projects, including the Marshall Family Performing Arts Center for the Greenhill School outside Dallas, Texas; the Brookfield Place Entry Pavilion opposite the WTC site in New York, NY; the LEED Gold Steinberg Visitor Center for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn, NY; and a multi-building redesign of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India.

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Trahan Architects, an award-winning architecture firm with offices in New Orleans and New York, announced today that it has been selected by The City of Austin to design a performing arts center for the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) in Austin, Texas.

The Asian American Resource Center’s mission is to create a space of belonging and healing for Asian American communities in Austin and beyond. This is accomplished through community collaborations and partnerships; providing rental space; organizing cultural, educational, and health wellness programs; and curating art and historical exhibitions. The AARC leads with its values and vision so that diverse communities are supported and connected.

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Trey Trahan reflects on growing up in Louisiana, and how the eroding state provided the basis for what he calls “Peace Architecture.”

“At the outset of each project, Trahan Architects asks a series of questions that focus on striking the proper balance between building and site: Who lived here? What happened on this land? How healthy is the watershed? Exactly how much ‘architecture’ is appropriate here? What are the conditions of the soil – the only grounds upon which peace can lastingly be built? This is an approach rooted in place.”
— Trey Trahan, FAIA, Founder & CEO, Trahan Architects

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