After the pandemic upended life and threatened their nascent firm, Becky Garnett and Pete DePasquale prevailed in building a community-oriented practice that is transforming parts of Long Island.
Designed to passive-house principles, an airy multi-story addition to a Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, rowhouse adds 30 percent more area to the building while requiring only 12 percent additional energy consumption.
Part of the first phase of Arverne East, New York’s first net-zero housing development, a new oceanfront community center offers a template for sustainable public design.
The jury applauded the architect, who will be presented with the prize this coming weekend, for designing “beautiful and durable buildings with a nuanced elegance that moves the spirit of all who experience them.”