Mission
ReFrame Architecture is a socially driven architecture firm that works with community-focused clients who prioritize human connection and long-term value. We guide projects through a collaborative design process grounded in care, curiosity, and creativity.
ReFrame Architecture is a socially driven architecture firm that works with community-focused clients who prioritize human connection and long-term value. We guide projects through a collaborative design process grounded in care, curiosity, and creativity.
Core Values
Social experience matters:
We center human interaction, storytelling, and public life, recognizing how space shapes the lives of diverse people, animals, and natural environment.
Access to design:
We are always seeking strategies to make design services accessible to diverse communities.
Integrity in process:
We advocate for our clients by clarity and care, prioritizing feasibility, long-term value, and thoughtful guidance. We’re not afraid to say “no” when it matters.
The process matters:
We bring value through both outcome and the process. Relationships, collaboration, and design exploration are essential parts of every service we provide.
Social experience matters:
We center human interaction, storytelling, and public life, recognizing how space shapes the lives of diverse people, animals, and natural environment.
Access to design:
We are always seeking strategies to make design services accessible to diverse communities.
Integrity in process:
We advocate for our clients by clarity and care, prioritizing feasibility, long-term value, and thoughtful guidance. We’re not afraid to say “no” when it matters.
The process matters:
We bring value through both outcome and the process. Relationships, collaboration, and design exploration are essential parts of every service we provide.
Founder
Yalda Keramati is an architect and educator based in Brooklyn, New York, with experience working in Milan, Venice, and New York City. She is the founder of ReFrame Architecture, a certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) dedicated to creating innovative spaces.
Yalda is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Committed to collective growth of the profession, she serves as co-chair of the AIANY Marketing and Communications Committee, and as a mentor at The Architectural League of New York.
Her experience spans a range of project types including educational, residential, high-end retail, mixed use, and accessible design.