Every building is a biography. Whose biography depends on the architect's approach. We look to the users, the owners, the brief and the context for inspiration, shaping buildings and projects with them in mind. We see our role as interpreters, not the subjects of our projects. We may write and direct these movies, but we try not to star in them as well.

Biber Architects is a tightly organized, highly experienced team of architects and designers working for more than 25 years in New York and nationally.

James Biber FAIA LEED leads the firm and conceptually drives all our projects from the first introduction to the opening party, often designing the client's next project and the next one, etc. James is responsible for such icons as the Harley-Davidson Museum, the Fashion Center Needle and Button, Gotham Bar & Grill and Mesa Grill, the Glass House Visitors Center and a long list of visual gems.

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Private

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Private residences reveal the owner in ways that no autobiography or photographic portrait can match. The identity of the creator (and by that we mean the owner, the resident, the user) is at the epicenter of the formal language of a home.

Museums

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Museums are our most communicative form of architecture, begging to teach, delight, inform or just mesmerize. Whether a museum displays fine art, celebrity relics or the sweep of history as told by a collection of artifacts, the narrative built by a museum can be as powerful as an epic film and as rich and personal as poetry.

Civic

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We admire cities as the highest expression, most efficient form and best integrated man-made artifacts in existence. We love cities as cauldrons of creativity and excitement. When we build for the city we are building for the public in the public realm.

Corporation

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Identity architecture requires more than a passing understanding of how your business works. One of the joys of being an architect is deconstructing how a business, or an institution, or a school or an international brand operates in the visual world. Developing a unique visual language for a brand means communicating the brand, not the architect's personal style.

We're sad to see our Wave 1 of Student Ambassadors leave. During their time at the USA Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015, they met with top U.S. officials and industry leaders working at the forefront of innovative solutions central to the them of Expo, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.

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