apartment houses. It was heralded by Ada Louise Huxtable as an exemplar of contextual design and received an honor award from the American Institute of Architects. In 2008 Garrison Architects received the commission to design the Syracuse University School of Architecture. With 34 extremely involved faculty, a very limited budget, and a damaged but promising early 20th century building it presented a significant challenge. The design process unfolded with an analysis to discover how the building might foster identity and communication while increasing the school's visibility in the surrounding University. This process also revealed the buildings abandoned solar actuated ventilation system and has led to the greater understanding and use of this approach. Garrison Architects was awarded a NYC AIA design award for this project. The Pod Hotel, completed in 2018 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the firms largest and most complex modular building to date. It places 250 prefabricated modular micro hotel rooms, restaurants, and commercial space within an irregular urban site. The design includes seven interconnected garden courts and four green rooftop terraces with photovoltaic canopies. Garrison Architects completed works also include U.S. Principal Officers Residence in Samoa, the Irish Repertory Theatre, NYC, NY, the East Elmhurst Branch Library, Queens, NY, Roberto Clemente Plaza, Bronx, NY, the Iversen Kaplan Residence, Princeton, NJ, and Restoration Plaza in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY. Modular structures include the NYC Emergency Housing Prototype for the Office of Emergency Management; the NYC Parks Beach Restoration Modules, mobile drone control and observation modules for Verizon Communications, the Lehman College Child Care Center, and the Milan Case Study Houses. Work in production and construction in the fall of 2020 includes the Staten Island Animal Shelter, Staten Island, NY, Newark Makerhoods, Newark, NJ, the Piaule Landscape Hotel, Catskill, NY, Lighthouse Point, Staten Island, NY, The 76 Modular Triple Net Zero Housing, Albany, NY, the Aspinwall/Willich Residence, Hudson, NY and the Lavrik/Paprocki Residence, Milan, NY. External links "Towards a Sustainable Architecture" by James Garrison, in Scapes 2005 Garrison Architects Homepage Modern Modular Architect blog by Garrison Architects James Garrison Homepage at Parsons "Renowned Architect Designs With Nature in Mind," Real Estate Weekly Syracuse University School of Architecture alumni 1953 births Living people Architects from New York City Architects from Pennsylvania Parsons School of Design faculty