PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is a group practice known for creating some of the world’s most recognized landmarks. We design projects across the globe from our New York studio, bringing large-firm capacity and small-firm agility to each assignment.

Across six decades of practice, we have produced an exceptionally diverse portfolio of work—in scale, program, purpose, and expression. The firm has completed over 250 building and planning projects in more than 100 cities around the world. Our clients include major corporations, private developers, and public authorities, as well as educational, cultural, and religious institutions.

Approach
Working from a studio in New York, the firm’s partners and colleagues approach each project on its own terms, drawing inspiration less from formal or theoretical preconceptions than from particularities of place and program.

Two central themes are consistently evident in the firm’s body of work. The first is the conception of architecture and planning as an art of place making—embodying above all else a concern for the quality of public space and public life. The second is a commitment to the craft of building—emanating from a belief that thoughtful use of materials and careful attention to detail are indispensable to the creation of a meaningful and responsible built environment.

Sustainable Design
Sustainability, in its social and technical manifestations, is a key aspect of both of these concerns and is evidenced by a roster of LEED-accredited professionals and a portfolio of projects shaped by consideration of climate, energy and water efficiency, daylight, and environmental quality. These projects span from one of the earliest AIA Top Ten Green Projects through current work at the level of LEED Platinum.