STUDIO
STUDIO GIA WOLFF is an interdisciplinary design practice, creating through the frameworks of architecture, environments, and installations.
The studio’s multi-scale projects have ranged from residential and commercial interiors to ground-up masterplans, ambitious site-specific urban interventions, gallery installations, and curatorial collaborations.
Led by visionary designer Gia Wolff, the studio is defined by its collaborative ethos and extensive network of technical and creative partners. Each endeavor relies on a trinity of relationships, between the studio, clients, and the unique characteristics of each project, wherein the process becomes an intimate journey.
Perpetually taking cues from theater, ritual, music, and other creative adjacencies, the studio remixes architectural gestures through a blend of meticulous research and cerebral exploration. Holding a passion for narrative, each design pursues the unfolding of space in ways both cinematic and intimate. Whether for private or civic use, each design emphasizes spatial storytelling and user experience. These ideas guide a reciprocal relationship between users and the built environment, and engage architecture’s most compelling performative dimensions.
Studio Gia Wolff frequently collaborates with practitioners in the cultural arts and in complementary design disciplines. With world-renowned curator Claire Tancons, they have completed projects for the Tate Modern, Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and the city of Miami Beach’s Faena District. Other prolific partnerships have included projects with Brooklyn-based Freecell Architecture, with whom they frequently collaborate on residential and masterplan designs for acclaimed clients in the creative industries. No matter the scale, the studio wields a personal approach to every project, bringing the user to center stage as both protagonist and participant.
Studio Gia Wolff is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, and practices internationally.
BIO
GIA WOLFF is the founder and creative director of Studio Gia Wolff, a Brooklyn-based design practice creating multi-scale projects ranging from residential interiors to masterplans, site-specific experiences to ambitious urban interventions, and gallery installations to large-scale curatorial collaborations.
Prior to establishing her eponymous studio in 2022, Wolff practiced under celebrated architects, including a formative early-career collaboration with Vito Acconci at Acconci Studio. Shaped by his poetic approaches to art and design, she led projects for art galleries, retailers, public architecture works, and product development at Aconci studio. Her tenure at Acconci Studio deeply informed the ethos of collaboration, and interest in the almost mystic capacities of design that permeate her studio structure still today.
Other leading roles included positions at David Adjaye Associates, where she contributed to public institution plans and high-end residences; Architecture Research Office, where she worked on projects such as campus masterplans; and pioneering firm LOT-EK, where her expertise in urban design interventions helped guide a commission for Chile’s Santiago Biennial. Each of these formative roles helped sharpen Wolff’s style of merging rigorous architectural frameworks with the whimsy and nimble ethos of performance art.
In 2013, Wolff won the prestigious Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize for Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats. This groundbreaking research into the ephemeral architecture of carnival continues to inspire her projects through the exploration of mobility, temporality, and collective identity.
Wolff received her MArch from Harvard University (2008) and BFA from Parsons School of Design (2001). Wolff has taught at Princeton School of Architecture, Cooper Union, and Pratt Institute, and lectured internationally. Wolff is a champion of discovering architecture’s fringe interests, where design intersects with art, research, performance – and, most importantly, people.
TEAM
Nitzan Noy, Senior Architect
Adrienne Totoro, Interior Designer