STUDIO

SLO Architecture Is a full-service certified woman owned (WBE) design firm of partners Amanda Schachter, AIA, and Alexander Levi, AIA, architects licensed to practice in the United States and Spain. Launching Schachter Levi Office in Madrid in 2005, we brought the studio to our native New York City in 2007.

SLO Architecture realizes designs for wide-ranging private clients, public agencies, cultural and educational institutions, and grassroots initiatives. The breadth of our work links realms of urban and architectural design with artistic production and social action, bringing together multiple partners, including local practitioners, youth, mentors, fabricators, and public officials. SLO’s public projects envision the reforging of links among natural ecologies embedded within the city including waterways disfigured by outsized infrastructures of industry, settlement, and transportation and seek opportunities to amplify social, artistic, and entrepreneurial ambitions of urban neighborhoods by coupling them with the active resurgence of nature.

In our mission to bring vitality, connectivity, and sustainability to public space, SLO Architecture collaborates with entities including NYC Department of Parks, MTA Arts & Design, NYC Department of Transportation, Bronx River Alliance, Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice, Bronx River Arts Center, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Inwood Canoe Club, City as Living Laboratory, Bronx Council on Environmental Quality, Brooklyn Navy Yards, New York Harbor School, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, and the Huntington Free Library’s East Bronx History Forum, among many others.

Carefully tailored to the needs and desires of clients and emerging institutions, to embody their dreams and ambitions, the projects of SLO Architecture, beyond ‘frozen music’ or a ‘machine for living’, are slow gratification: the design of a resonance chamber that amplifies and harmonizes the individual and collective spirit.

AWARDS

2022 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship Award Architecture/Environmental Structures | 2015 Mojdeh Baratloo Urban Urge Award | 2014 Blinder Award -Fitch Foundation | 2014 AIANY Design Award | 2013 NYFA Fellowship Award Architecture/Environmental Structures | 2013 Dwell Vision Award | 2012 AIANY New Practices New York Prize | 2011 Blinder Award – Fitch Foundation | 2009 Van Allen New York Prize Fellowship

PRINCIPALS

Amanda Schachter, AIA, & Alexander Levi, AIA are co-founders and principals of SLO Architecture. They are native New Yorkers, and prior to starting their studio, they were involved in numerous public building projects— including City Administrative Offices, Museums, Concert Halls and Public Plazas— in Europe where they resided from 1998-2007. Schachter received her B.A. from Columbia College in New York and M. Arch from Princeton University and has worked in the offices of Federico Soriano & Asociados (Madrid) and Pei Partnership (NYC). Levi received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and M. Arch from Yale University and has worked at the offices Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Madrid) and Santiago Calatrava (New York).

ASSOCIATES

Dugan Lunday joined SLO Architecture in 2016. A Tokyo native raised in Texas; Dugan studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. He became interested in Architecture after taking Amanda’s design studio in his senior year. Dugan later became coordinator of the Sarah Lawrence Urban Design Lab in Yonkers. At SLO Architecture, he is responsible for managing design output from concept to construction administration.

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