Ocean Views
For 25 years, Andrew Kotchen’s distinct aesthetic vision has shaped Workshop/APD’s remarkable portfolio of projects across North America and abroad. Under his leadership, the award-winning architecture and design firm has expanded to a vertically integrated, 90-person team with offices in New York City, Minneapolis, and Greenwich, CT, and teams in Nantucket, Palm Beach, Phoenix, Boston, and Denver. Site specific, modern and meticulously crafted, its projects include luxury residences; groundbreaking multi-family developments such as 70 Charlton, The Printing House, and Hawthorne Park; amenity rich social living projects from Denver and Miami to Phoenix and Houston; Hotels including AutoCamp and Faraway Martha’s Vineyard, and design products developed in partnership with the industry’s leading manufacturers.
Andrew’s work is defined by a distinctive sense of place and purpose, delving into a project’s unique location and history to inform its details at every scale. This approach yields highly customized spaces across diverse contexts, and provides Andrew and his team with new ideas, sources and inspiration to fuel and evolve the firm’s work.
With commissions in locales as diverse as New York City and the Bahamas, The Cape & Islands, Sun Valley, Aspen, and Big Sky, Boston, Palm Beach, California, London and Miami, Andrew is adept at understanding and designing places that are relevant to – and seamlessly integrated within- the local landscape. His spaces are timelessly modern, functional, and marked by a focus on extraordinary materials and techniques. He is fascinated with the craft of making and can often be found on job sites with fabricators, tradespeople and artisans, perfecting a project’s details, furnishings and fittings.
Andrew is dedicated to supporting local and educational initiatives, serving as a board member for Suffield Academy and the Artists Association of Nantucket, and ardently supporting Swim Across America. A resident of Irvington, NY, Nantucket, MA, and Palm Beach, FL, he enjoys sailing, outdoor sports and travel with his wife Emily and children, Grace and William. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Lehigh University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. He has served as a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and as a visiting critic at the New York Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Lehigh University, Parsons School of Design and the University of Michigan. He co-authored Workshop/APD Homes: Architecture, Interiors and the Spaces Between (Rizzoli, Fall ’22) along with co-founder Matt Berman and author Marc Kristal.
