About
LTA is a New York City-based studio driven by a mission to create architecture that is both deeply personal and environmentally rigorous—work that elevates daily life while reducing its footprint on the planet. Our practice blends craft, performance, and a profound respect for place. We design with the belief that beauty and sustainability are inseparable, and that thoughtful buildings can foster stronger relationships between people, landscape, and community.
Our work is rooted in a collaborative, client-centered process. We approach each project as a conversation—listening closely, testing ideas through models and energy analysis, and crafting spaces that feel inevitable to their context yet uniquely attuned to the people who inhabit them. This rigor extends to our partnerships with engineers, builders, and Passive House professionals, forming a network of like-minded collaborators who continually refine and elevate our work.
Innovation at LTA emerges from the intersection of high performance and design ambition. As Certified Passive House consultants, we integrate energy modeling from the earliest stages to optimize envelopes, reduce mechanical loads, and uncover opportunities for material savings. This performance-driven approach allows us to create architecture that is resilient, low-carbon, and economically thoughtful—without compromising warmth, tactility, or spatial richness.
LTA’s projects respond to pressing social, economic, and environmental realities: the need for healthier indoor environments, the imperative to build responsibly, and the desire for adaptable spaces that support changing patterns of living. Whether a rural retreat, an urban retrofit, or a new cultural landmark, our work seeks to reveal the character of its setting, embrace natural light, and choreograph moments of discovery.
Ultimately, LTA Studio strives to demonstrate that sustainable architecture can be transformative—quietly innovative, deeply rooted in craft, and designed to last.
What we do
Laura Trevino
Architect & Founder
The studio is led by Laura Trevino who has architectural experience in New York and Mexico and has taught architecture at Syracuse University. Through her work as principal of the award-winning firm Bureau V for almost a decade, in acclaimed architecture firms like Asymptote Architecture, and as a consultant for the Urban Planning Agency of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Laura has completed a wide range and scale of projects including residential buildings, nonprofit institutions, masterplans and installations.
Trevino's varied experience in leading collaborative partnerships with architects, designers, engineers and artists in projects such as the award winning nonprofit performance hall National Sawdust in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a Masterplan for the RG-NY Vineyard in the North Fork and a recently completed ground up mixed-use building in Brooklyn, helps position LTA as a multifaceted practice with the capacity to engage with a varied range of clients and collaborators.
With an international background - Trevino obtained her Bachelor of Architecture from the Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey including a year abroad at the Universidad Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University - Laura’s well rounded technical and design driven education, combined with her professional experience, furnish LTA with a uniquely global view of architecture and a sensitivity to its role and impact on people, cities and the world at large.
Team
Current and Past
Jinyu Zhang
Daniel Badillo
Sanjana Patel
Ji Hyun Nam
Paige Haskett
Emily Ebersol
Geraldine Vargas