Perkins Eastman

Perkins Eastman is an international architecture, interior design, urban design, planning, landscape architecture, graphic design, and project management firm. Headquartered in New York City, United States, the firm is led by founding Principals Bradford Perkins and Mary-Jean Eastman, along with the firm's other Principal and Executive Directors: J. David Hoglund, Daniel J. Cinelli, Carl Ordemann, Alan Schlossberg, Shawn Basler, Jeffrey Brand, Nicholas Leahy, and Erich A. Burkhart.

History

Bradford Perkins and Mary-Jean Eastman met at Llewelyn-Davies International, where Perkins served as the Managing Partner of the New York, Toronto, and Caracas offices. Both of them moved to Perkins + Will (a firm founded by Bradford's father), where Bradford Perkins became the Managing Partner of the Eastern offices, and Eastman ran one of the major design studios.

In 1981, they left Perkins + Will to found Attia & Perkins, which was reorganized as Perkins Eastman in 1984. As the firm grew throughout the years, it expanded its range of expertise. Practice areas of the firm include: housing, higher education, hospitality, primary and secondary education, public, office and mixed-use, corporate interiors, research, religious and cultural facilities, and urban design. The firm's principals and staff regularly participate in professional conferences, research studies, and other activities to advance the conventional boundaries of design in each of its specialized areas. A number of principals and staff members have written basic textbooks on elementary and secondary school design, senior living, justice facilities, retail/mixed-use facilities, and healthcare facilities, as well as published more than 200 articles in total in professional journals and research papers on related topics.