INTRO

ABOUT

SOMA is an international architecture firm headquartered in New York since 2004. With its focus on incorporating craft, digital technologies and environmental responsibility, the firm’s designs and work have attracted critical acclaim for their boundary pushing nature. SOMA’s work is rising around the world today - in New York, Dubai, California, Doha, Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Lebanon and other international markets - with remarkable offerings of luxury residential, hospitality, commercial and mixed-use developments that underscore the firm’s unique fusion of highly skilled design architects and local market expertise in building code and construction documentation and supervision.

MISSION

SOMA provides cutting edge architectural and design services; as a team, we apply the expertise of all disciplines to understand and solve design problems. We work best when given overall responsibility for project design and employ a systematic approach to our work. Our core mission is to work closely with our clients, understand their needs, and design for them buildings that not only respect their brief, but that also solves many if not most of their initial concerns at the early stages of development. Our methodology typically relies on a “problem solving” approach, which guides the design process at every stage. Over the last decade, we have accumulated a rich, diverse and global experience which qualifies our team as one of the very few global award winning firms that works across all project scales, combined with our unique expertise honed by fifteen years of designing and building iconic projects in major cities like New York and Dubai, and collaborating with some of the most advanced experts, consultants and developers in the world. We have a highly selective approach to taking on new projects, with handpicked clients to guarantee a perfect delivery of the highest standards of design and execution for each project. We believe in efficiency, with fast turnaround of ideas, without compromising the depth of our thinking and our attention to every detail.

SOMA

31 W27 ST, FL9, NY, NY, 10001
+1.212.966.1200

mail@soma.us

FOUNDER

Having earned a Masters in Architecture from the University of Columbia, Michel founded in 2004 the award-winning architectural practice SOMA in New York. His designs have attracted critical acclaim for their boundary-pushing nature. Having built a reputation for provocative projects, Michel’s defiant no compromise stance, in terms of design, continuously raises the bar in the architecture sphere and has gained him respect among a loyal client base and fellow design professionals. His work is rising around the world today with remarkable offerings of projects that underscore his firm’s cutting edge appeal. In 2010, his design for Park 51 in New York further catapulted him into prominence, with one journalist dubbing him ‘the most controversial architect the US has known.’ Such notoriety has led to a subsequent influx of invites as Speaker and Guest of Honor at prestigious universities across the United States and Europe. After winning numerous international awards, he became one of the youngest architects to have designed and built a skyscraper in New York, 45 Park Place as well as the groundbreaking One at Palm building in Dubai.

Team