Founder and CEO of Trahan Architects, Victor F. “Trey” Trahan III, FAIA, is globally recognized for designs that exhibit technological innovation, material expression, and a quiet sense of beauty. Trahan takes a rooted approach to architecture with a deep investment in understanding the culture, history and ecology of each project and place to inform his firm’s designs.
Trahan has received many accolades personally for his leadership in design, including being recognized by the Chicago Athenaeum as Laureate for The American Prize for Architecture in 2021. He is also a member of AIA’s College of Fellows, received the Architecture Review Emerging Architecture Award and early in his career was listed as one of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices.
Parallel to his practice, he is involved with various organizations and initiatives related to architecture, art, historic and ecological preservation. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. From 2015 to 2017, Trahan served as a member of the International Council of the Van Alen Institute. He has lectured and taught broadly as such distinguished institutions as MIT, The University of Southern California, Tulane University, Harvard University and the Catholic University of America among many others. As extensions and incubators of his firm’s ethos, he is the steward of two conservation properties, in St. Francisville, Louisiana and Patagonia, Chile, exploring with a team of consultants, academics and various experts how human occupation and ecologies are intertwined.
He and his firm are dedicated to exploring how architecture can reveal stories untold with humility and enduring vision.
