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Akoaki is a design studio working across architecture, urbanism, and scenography. We treat space as a cultural medium—authored across disciplines and revised through use. Our work engages public life through civic infrastructure, inviting participation while remaining accountable to governance, maintenance, and time. Since 2008, we have developed work for public, private, and nonprofit partners that broaden how environments are formed and lived. Situated methods guide each commission; reuse, stewardship, and open programming shape form. Context is an active partner. Research and narrative guide construction. The result is architecture that is pragmatic and forward-looking advancing a civic practice defined by rigor and generosity.
sirota@akoaki.com
Anya Sirota is a founding principal of Akoaki and an architectural designer, researcher, and educator. She is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where her work advances new relationships between design, institutions, and public culture. Operating across academic, municipal, and curatorial platforms, she participates in transnational dialogues on the civic agency of architecture. Her projects and initiatives have been exhibited and published internationally. Sirota received a Master in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a BA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.
farges@akoaki.com
Jean Louis Farges is an architectural designer, curator, and founding principal of Akoaki. His work spans architecture, urbanism, landscape, and exhibition platforms, advancing design as a cultural and environmental project. Known for original thinking and cross-disciplinary leadership, he develops frameworks that reshape how public space is inhabited while remaining grounded in material, ecological, and institutional realities.
gillers@akoaki.com
Allen Gillers is a Senior Architect at Akoaki with more than fifteen years of experience across residential, educational, and cultural work. He treats architecture as a collaborative act—translating collective ambition into built form—while allowing room for projects that are formally sharp, occasionally cheeky, and always exacting in their craft. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Columbia University. He is a registered architect in New York and Massachusetts and serves on the faculty at Parsons School of Design.