Trahan Architects

Trahan Architects, an award-winning fi rm led by Victor F. “Trey” Trahan III, FAIA, has received national and international acclaim for work that is at once intensely personal, historically grounded and aesthetically sublime. Trahan Architects’ projects share a high level of technological sophistication and innovation coupled with a sense of quiet and experiential beauty. Combined with the fi rm’s research into emerging materials and construction methods, Trahan Architects examines culture and context to create refi ned structures that convey a timeless quality. Headquartered in New Orleans, the fi rm is one of the nations most celebrated, and also maintains a design studio in Chicago, a creative research team in Los Angeles and an administrative offi ce in Baton Rouge. Trahan Architects has been awarded 21 national/ international design awards and numerous state and regional design awards. The fi rm’s work has been published in more than 40 countries. Trey Trahan was the only American architect to receive the prestigious Architectural Review Award for Emerging Architecture in 2005 in London and was invited to participate in The Architectural League’s 25th Anniversary “Emerging Voices” lecture series in New York. He is a 2013 visiting professor at the graduate design studio at MIT. Trahan Architects’ recent projects include the design of the new Louisiana State Museum and Hall of Fame in Natchitoches and the Magnolia Mound Plantation Museum Visitors Center in Baton Rouge, and the conceptual design for the new Shakespeare Theatre in downtown Chicago. Trahan Architects is currently collaborating with the national award winning landscape design fi rm, Reed Hilderbrand, on a master plan project for the Cheekwood Arts and Gardens in Nashville.