Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL) is an innovative, award-winning architecture partnership founded in 1997
by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. LTL
actively pursues a diverse range of work, from large scale academic and cultural buildings to interior
architecture to competitions. LTL's approach is to realize inventive solutions that turn the very
constraints of each project into the design trajectory, exploring overlaps between space, program,
form, budget and materials.
The firm's work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally. LTL Architects received
the 2007 National Design Award for Interior Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum and was selected as one of six American architectural firms featured in the U.S. Pavilion
at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. In addition, LTL was included in the 2000 National Design
Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt and was selected in December 2000 by Architectural Record as one of
ten firms representing a Vanguard in Contemporary Architecture.
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis are co-authors of two books, the monograph Opportunistic Architecture
(Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) and Situation Normal....Pamphlet Architecture #21 (Princeton Architectural
Press, 1998).
Paul Lewis
Marc Tsurumaki
David J. Lewis
Awards
David J. Lewis received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1988. He holds an M.A. in History of
Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University (1992) and an M.Arch. from
Princeton University (1995). In addition to his work at LTL, David has taught at
Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University (Richard Trott Visiting
Professor). He is currently an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he
directed the Master of Architecture Program from 2002-2007.
