Blake Middleton
PartnerHandel Architects LLPBlake Middleton FAIA FAAR LEED AP is a Founding Partner at Handel Architects and his work has broken new ground in pioneering approaches to sustainable design and urban living. These include high-rise mixed-use residential projects, adaptive re-use of historic buildings, mass timber construction, and a variety of award-winning institutional and civic buildings. Blake led the design of four precedent-setting, high performance Passive House projects including student residences for The House at Cornell Tech and Harmony Commons at the University of Toronto; Winthrop Center mixed-use building in Boston; and Sendero Verde in East Harlem, the world’s largest 100% affordable housing Passive House complex including a school, health center, senior housing and community services partners. Handel Architects has completed more than 60,000 multi-family apartments and over 9000 affordable units around the country.
The diversity of Blake’s work includes academic and performance buildings for The Boston Conservatory; the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Natatorium and the Idlewild Nature Center in Queens, NY, and the renovation of the historic Santa Barbara Bowl Amphitheater. Recent work includes a 500,000 SF LEED Platinum WELL-certified life-sciences building in Boston’s Seaport District, and three buildings at the historic Ponce City Market in Atlanta including a 100,000 sf mass-timber office building.
Over four decades, Blake has taught at Cornell, Harvard, Syracuse, California College of the Arts, and Northeastern. His is work has been published widely and won distinction from the AIA, SARA, Urban Land Institute, the Chicago Atheneum, the Council on Vertical Urbanism, and the Congress for New Urbanism. Blake is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture, received his B. Arch. and M. Arch. degrees from Cornell University, and is licensed in seven states. Blake lives with his wife Dr. Martha Eddy in New York City, and is board member of the Riverside Park Conservancy.
Can There Ever Be an Affordable House Again
What happens to home design when no one can afford a home? As housing becomes increasingly out of reach for people across income spectrums and in loca
…What happens to home design when no one can afford a home? As housing becomes increasingly out of reach for people across income spectrums and in locations all over the world, these designers are working at scales that range from an apartment tower t
…What happens to home design when no one can afford a home? As housing becomes increasingly out of reach for people across income spectrums and in locations all over the world, these designers are working at scales that range from an apartment tower to your kitchen table to make good design available to everyone. They discuss how solving a housing crisis can be beautiful.
In partnership with Dwell
What happens to home design when no one can afford a home? As housing becomes increasingly out of reach for people across income spectrums and in locations all over the world, these designers are working at scales that range from an apartment tower to your kitchen table to make good design available to everyone. They discuss how solving a housing crisis can be beautiful.
In partnership with Dwell
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