People

Bringing together a diverse pool of talent around a single shared table, our company is built on open, ongoing conversation. Founded in 1992 by Trey Trahan, the firm is intimate in size but broad in its scope. We engage in a collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities and economies. Each member of the Trahan team is an integral part of a collaborative process that enriches our company culture and improves the quality of our work.

Ethos: Collaboration

Team

Managing Principal, New York Studio

Liza Feoli

Director of Marketing & Strategy

Margaret Jankowsky

Director of Urban Design

Senior Design Architect

Kyle Culver

Senior Project Designer

Sean David

Senior Project Manager

Paúl Duston-Muñoz

Senior Design Architect

Nicholas Garrison

Office Manager

Manuela Hiches

Business Development Specialist

Drew Hutcheson

Senior Project Designer

Senior Project Designer

Brian Richter

Digital Practice Manager

Matthew Rivera

Associate AIA

Designer

Matthew Rivera is a designer committed to respecting the context of a place and firmly believes that it is the history and culture that forms a framework from which the most elegant design solution presents itself. Matthew brings expertise from his work on projects across the globe, ranging from an internationally awarded backcountry privy in Rocky Mountain National Park to luxury residential and hospitality projects in coastal Spain.

In 2019, he received his Master of Architecture from the University of Colorado Denver. Matthew remains an active alumnus of his alma mater by offering mentorship to recent graduates looking to relocate to New York City.

As part of ColoradoBuildingWorkshop, he served as the structural lead and client liaison for Rocky Mountain National Park Backcountry Privies, a student-designed and built project at 12,000 feet elevation. The project was well received by the backcountry community and has won multiple awards, including an AIA National Small Projects Award, NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering Award and was subsequently featured in Architzer’s The World’s Best Architecture.

Matthew, a New York native, enjoys exploring the city’s art collections, playing basketball, and taking his dog hiking in the Hudson Valley.

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, Cum Laude, University of Colorado Denver, 2019
Bachelor of Arts in Financial Economics, Cum Laude, Binghamton University, 2014

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Architectural Designer, Richard Meier & Partners, New York, New York
Designer + Fabricator, ColoradoBuildingWorkshop, Denver, Colorado
Design Intern, Slade Architecture, New York, New York

Careers

The quality of our work reflects the collective commitment of a diverse and engaged team. Build your career with us.

New Orleans

Communications Director

Trahan Architects is looking for an individual with strong vision and leadership skills to uphold, nurture and propel our firm’s image and interact with the media. The role of Communications Director is to develop our communications team and generate a forward-looking media strategy in New Orleans & New York City, with immediate availability. Reporting directly to the Partners & Managing Principal, you will be the interface between architectural project teams, the clients and their PR agencies, and media professionals. You...

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Marketing Manager

The full-time Marketing Manager position offers the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative architecture practice in search of design excellence. The role is based in the firm’s New Orleans office. The ideal candidate will have applicable experience in an architecture or engineering firm, or related industry; a positive, can-do attitude; time management skills; and the agility to pivot from one project to the next and back again. The role manages and coordinates the firm’s marketing efforts....

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Project Manager

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our established and growing design practice in New Orleans. This is a high-level leadership opportunity with an award-winning, collaborative practice that strives for design excellence. The Project Manager will lead a range of project types, in collaboration with our diverse design team. We are searching for a highly motivated individual who is committed to the collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities, and economies and to explore design...

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Project Designer

The full-time Project Designer position offers the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative practice in search of design excellence. The Project Designer will be directly involved in a range of project types, exploring form and function, with a strong focus on materiality. We are searching for someone who is committed to the collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities, and economies with design solutions that are...

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Design Architect

The full-time Design Architect position offers the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative practice in search of design excellence. The Design Architect will be directly involved in a range of project types, exploring form and function, with a strong focus on materiality. We are searching for someone who is committed to the collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities, and economies with design solutions that are...

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Senior Technical Coordinator

Trahan Architects is particularly interested in senior design and technical architects and managers who have experience with large-scale, programmatically complex projects, especially those related to cultural, educational, assembly, and mixed-use facilities in the range of $5 to $20 million or more. Senior Technical Coordinators work directly with the firm’s principals, project managers, design leaders, and team members. They are responsible for technical aspects of assigned projects, including exploration of design solutions. They are committed to reconciling the goals and priorities...

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Designer

We are looking for a professional, full-time Designer to join our diverse team. Candidates will have the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative practice in search of design excellence. The designer will be directly involved in a range of project types, exploring form and function, with a strong focus on materiality. We are searching for someone who is committed to the collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities, and economies...

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New York

Communications Director

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Marketing Manager

The full-time Marketing Manager position offers the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative architecture practice in search of design excellence. The role is based in the firm’s New York office. The ideal candidate will have applicable experience in an architecture or engineering firm, or related industry; a positive, can-do attitude; time management skills; and the agility to pivot from one project to the next and back again. The role manages and coordinates the firm’s marketing efforts....

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Project Manager

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our established and growing design practice in New York. This is a high-level leadership opportunity with an award-winning, collaborative practice that strives for design excellence. The Project Manager will lead a range of project types, in collaboration with our diverse design team. We are searching for a highly motivated individual who is committed to the collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities, and economies and to explore design...

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