About
Ingui Architecture is a New York City architecture and interior design firm. Since 1977 we have worked on residential, institutional and commercial projects, most of them in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Westchester and the East End of Long Island, and many in historic buildings.
Meet The Team
We aim to create well-composed spaces, placing a high value on ensuring each project is well crafted, visually timeless, and serves the people who use it for many years. We integrate function, aesthetics and building systems, drawing on our Passive House work, so our buildings are quiet, comfortable and healthy and use very little energy. Our design process relies on collaboration with our clients and extends to the builders, consultants and craftspeople with whom we work.
The firm was founded by Ben Baxt in 1977 after several years as a single practitioner in Brooklyn. Michael Ingui joined the firm in 1994 and became a partner in 2000. An in-house interior design company, BIA Interiors, was established in partnership with the late Heather Tilev to create a seamless interior and architectural design process. In 2023 Baxt Ingui Architects became Ingui Architecture. Our office is at 20 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan.
Our work ranges from brownstones, townhouses and carriage houses in Brooklyn and Manhattan to houses in Amagansett, Fire Island, Bedford and South Kent. It includes Engine 16, a nineteenth-century Manhattan firehouse once built around machinery, urgency and noise that has become a quiet place to live. Engine 16 received a NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence Award in 2019. Our work also includes several Passive House firsts: Manhattan’s first Passive House, which was also the first in the country to earn both Passive House certification and LEED Platinum; the first certified Passive House in a landmarked district; and the first Passive House Plus in the United States. Other projects include Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn Preschool of Science and the One15 Brooklyn Marina.
We are an active pro bono service provider and supporter of many non-profit efforts in NYC and beyond, including Haiti and Ethiopia. For over 35 years, we have partnered with Brooklyn Community Housing and Services, providing pro bono technical assistance and designing multiple projects. We also provided the pro bono design for Brooklyn Community Services’ Coney Island Community Service Center.
Awards
2012 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award
2016 AIA Brooklyn & Queens Design Awards
2016 Building Brooklyn Award
BCS One Brooklyn Community Partner Award
Brooklyn Community Housing and Services 2015 Gala
Brownstoner RADD Awards
