metrostudio

MetroStudio New Orleans as founded in 2006 in response to the Principals' (Robert Zwirn and Kenneth Gowland) desire to play a role in the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. MetroStudio is a small, but multi-faceted architectural practice. The firm personnel have a wide range of experience, including backgrounds in large and small institutional and commercial projects (schools, museums, high rise office towers, multi-family, hospitality, health care as well as, single family residential). The firm's diverse portfolio has allowed it to serve the broad constituency and varied conditions that define the post-Katrina
Gulf South.

MetroStudio believes that architecture must be specific and responsive to the local ecologies surrounding each project. Sustainability requires strategic thinking, regarding not just the environment, but our clients' long term vision. Each site and project is unique, the individual conditions, be they climate, topography, program, budget, or aspiration, must all be given the proper respect and response. MetroStudio firmly believes in architecture's ability to provide lasting solutions to the issues in our physical, social, and economic environments.