firm profile

Deborah Schneiderman (b. New York, New York) established
deSc architecture in 2000 in New York as an extension of Spider Design established in 1997. Schneiderman received her bachelors degree at Cornell University and her Masters Degree at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture), in addition, Schneiderman did post graduate work at the Bartlett College, University College London.

deSc Architecture was established to infuse the everyday practice of architecture with greater theoretical and philosophical notions of design. We strive to push the practice and the discipline of architecture forward by maintaining a multi-disciplinary practice with a balance of built work, paper architecture, and teaching.

In our built work, budget is always a constraint, We respond with innovative solutions that create aesthetic opportunity of financial limitations. We are constantly focusing on new, alternative and ecologically sound building materials. Our working process develops a language of architecture that reflects back on architecture itself, re-defining the typical condition as an optimized design moment. We push the process of our built work forward through socio-political investigations of cultural heritage and memory, by distilling the information to the basic requirements and intentions of complex ideas to create moments of architectural clarity.

Though we have completed a range of project types of varying scope and complexity, our primary interest is in forward looking projects addressing needs and developments of the new century. We pride ourselves in finding non-standard solutions to varying design challenges and problems. Common to all of our undertakings is a strong commitment to design.