ABOUT US
Garba / Seid Architecture Design Studio PLLC provides architectural services throughout the New York Metropolitan Area and New Jersey. Typical architectural services include predesign, design, construction management and interiors. Our approach to architecture is to meet our client's unique project objectives while providing innovative solutions. We aim to exhibit beauty, elegance and curiosity while satisfying programmatic and functional requirements. The goal of our practice is to improve the built environment through a creative juxtaposition of light, materiality and form throughout our residential and commercial projects.
Since our most successful projects have been realized through a combination of great clients, skilled and thoughtful construction professionals, and our attention to detail throughout the design and construction process, we understand that providing personalized, professional service to each of our projects from conception to occupancy is paramount. Every project is an educational experience for us as well as our clients.
Our principals are registered architects in New York and New Jersey and eligible to practice throughout the US. We are a certified Minority / Women Owned Business (MWBE) in New York State. Call us and let us know how we can help you realize your next project.
Since our most successful projects have been realized through a combination of great clients, skilled and thoughtful construction professionals, and our attention to detail throughout the design and construction process, we understand that providing personalized, professional service to each of our projects from conception to occupancy is paramount. Every project is an educational experience for us as well as our clients.
Our principals are registered architects in New York and New Jersey and eligible to practice throughout the US. We are a certified Minority / Women Owned Business (MWBE) in New York State. Call us and let us know how we can help you realize your next project.
Fareh E. Garba, RA
Fareh is a registered architect in the State of New York, originally from Jos, Plateau state in Nigeria. She now works and lives in the New York’s Hudson Valley. She has previously worked with KlingStubbins in Philadelphia, Davis Brody Bond in New York City and held an academic position as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School of Architecture in Troy, NY.
She completed secondary education in Nigeria and had lived there for some years, returning to New York to study architecture and completing undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Subsequently attending the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, PennDesign, earning a Master of Architecture Degree, she was honored with several awards including the first place prize in the John Stewardson Memorial Competition, a Lewis E. Dales Traveling Fellowship and the M.Arch, Paul Philippe Cret Prize for an exceptional thesis project titled ‘Entropic Migrant Conditions’. |
Austin J. Seid, RA
Austin Seid is a registered architect in the State of New York and New Jersey, a LEED Accredited Professional with a specialty in Building Design and Construction (LEED AP BD+C), NCARB certified and a member of the American Institute of Architects.
A native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, he completed his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo and graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Austin is the recipient of numerous academic awards and has participated in the design of commercial and transportation architecture works with a passion for dwellings and intimate spaces. |