Located in Boston’s Leather District next to South Station, BIA.studio is a creative design practice serving clients throughout New England. We undertake planning and design assignments at scales ranging from large transportation centers and institutional buildings to mid-sized renovation, expansion, and experience design projects. Our focus areas include:
- Waterfronts
- Infrastructure
- Academic Facilities
- Transportation Facilities
- Cultural Facilities
- Strategic Planning
- Wayfinding Systems
Drawing on innovation techniques from other creative industries, BIA.studio has developed a unique Outcome Mapping methodology called Outcome-Drive design. ODd is an effective end-to-end framework for improving client and stakeholder communications and defining shared success metrics. Our methodology has proven to be highly effective at:
- Engaging diverse stakeholder perspectives in the design and planning process
- Identifying stakeholders’ distinct desired outcomes
- Enabling group decision-making
- Equipping project participants with a process for maximizing project potential
- Providing the key insights needed to create truly responsive design solutions
- Evaluating and comparing alternate design solutions
LEADERSHIP
Sela Bailey
Principal
Lian Davis
Principal
Chris Iwerks
Principal
Leonard Bertaux
Principal Emeritus
SERVICES
BIA.studio has built a unique design and planning process that engages project stakeholders and facilitates decision making using our Outcome-Driven design (ODd) methodology. We find that stakeholder groups often begin the process with pre-conceived design solutions and have missed an opportunity to define their desired outcomes. Desired outcomes are future conditions that stakeholders define as critical facets of success. Capturing and re-framing diverse stakeholder perspectives as desired outcomes provides key insights for designing responsive and innovative solutions. ODd has become a critical tool on projects encompassing architecture, visitor experience design, system-wide wayfinding design, capital project planning, asset assessment, and campus feasibility studies.
Design
Facility Programming
Architectural Design
Interior Design & Space Programming
Customer/Visitor Experience Design
Marine Environment Design
Resiliency & Sustainable Design
Wayfinding Systems Design
Graphic Design
Restoration/Renovation/Adaptive Reuse
Planning
Facility Master Planning
Campus Master Planning
Capital Campaign Planning
Feasibility Studies
Construction Phase Services
Contractor Selection Assistance
Owner Representation
Construction Administration
LEED Implementation Administration
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Modeling
Computer Renderings and Visualizations
Physical models
Cost Modeling/Cost Estimating
Energy Modeling
Life Cycle Cost Estimating
CLIENTS
Civic
Bergen County, Hackensack, NJ
Brooklyn Sports Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Capron Park Zoo, Attleboro, MA
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Hillsborough County, Nashua, NH
New England Aquarium, Boston, MA
Town of Arlington, MA
Town of Stoneham, MA
United States Navy, Brooklyn, NY
Zoo New England, Boston, MA
Commercial
Avison Young, Boston, MA
Brookfield Financial Properties, New York, NY
Brookline Savings Bank, Brookline, MA
Centerplate, Stamford, CT
Erieview Convention Center, Cleveland, OH
TAMS Professional Offices, Boston, MA
United States Postal Service, Brockton, MA
United States State Department, Ottawa, Canada
Windsor Associates, Boston, MA
Institutions
Boston College, Boston, MA
Boston Public Facilities Department, Boston MA
Brooklyn Sports Foundation, Brooklyn, NY.
Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Carroll School for the Blind, Newton, MA
City of Amesbury, MA
City of Nashua, NH
City of Worcester, MA
Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
DCAMM, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
Iron Workers Local 7, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, MA
Massasoit Community College, Brockton, Canton, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Salem State University, Salem, MA
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Town of Lexington, MA
Town of Needham, MA
Town of Royalston, MA
Town of Wareham, MA
University Cork College, Cork, Ireland
University of Massachusetts Building Authority, Boston, MA
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Transportation & Infrastructure
Albany Airport Authority, Albany, NY
Alstom, Bloomfield, CT
Auburn/Lewiston, ME
Barletta Construction Canton, MA
City of Bridgeport, CT
City of Elmira, NY
City of Malden, MA
City of Rochester, NY
Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority
Connecticut Department of Transportation
First Group America, Cincinnati, OH
Greater Bridgeport Transportation Authority, Bridgeport, CT
JAMS, Boston, MA
Lowell Regional Transit Authority
Maine Department of Transportation
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Highway Department
Massachusetts Port Authority
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
Pfizer, Andover, MA
Rhode Island Department of Transportation
Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority
Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, Rochester, NY
St. Clair County, IL
Steamship Authority, Woods Hole, MA
Tweed-New Haven Airport, New Haven, CT
Waldron Engineering, Exeter, NH
Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, Falmouth, MA
Housing
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
City of Bridgeport, CT City of Malden, MA.
City of Nashua, NH
Falmouth Housing Authority, Falmouth, MA
First Realty Management
Fuller Real Estate, Boston, MA
Gunwyn Development Boston, MA
Naval War College, Newport, RI
RECOGNITION
Awards
Bridgeport Intermodal Transportation Center
Design Excellence Award Boston Society of Architects 2008
Airport Blue Line MBTA Station
ACEC Award
[Bertaux with Wallace Floyd] 2005
Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion Competition
Honorable Mention
[Iwerks with Shepley Bulfinch] 2005
Carnegie Mellon University East Campus Project
Boston Society of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture in Association with Dennis & Clark] 1990
Progressive Architecture Citation for Urban Design
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture in Association with Dennis & Clark] 1989
Carnegie Mellon University Architectural + Campus Planning Competition
1st Place Design Award
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture in Association with Dennis & Clark] 1987
Church Court Condominiums
Progressive Architecture Award
[Bertaux with Graham Gund] 1984
City View Elementary School
Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1992
Deutsch House
Architectural Record Houses Award
[Bertaux with Graham Gund] 1983
EOCD State Housing Competition
Merit Award, Agawam, MA
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1983
Logan Airport Fire Rescue Headquarters
Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence
[Bertaux with Wallace Floyd] 1994
Malden Center MBTA Station
Boston Society of Architects Merit Award for Design
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1992
Program for a Juvenile Service Center
Progressive Architecture Award for Applied Research
[Iwerks with Sullivan Farbstein Associates] 1977
North Station Intermodal Transportation Center, Boston, MA
ACEC Award
[Bertaux with Wallace Floyd] 2001
Robbins Memorial Library, Arlington, MA
AGC Award
[Bertaux with Wallace Floyd] 1992
School House Condominiums
Architectural Record Interiors Award
[Bertaux with Graham Gund] 1982
Storrow Terrace
Boston Visions A National Design Competition Special Mention
[Iwerks with Fred Koetter] 1989
Venice Biennale Exhibition
[Iwerks with Fred Koetter] 1979
Teaticket Elderly Housing
Boston Society of Architects – Citation for Design Excellence
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1988
Ventilation Building No. 7
City of Boston/Boston Society of Architects
Harleston Parker Award for the “Most Beautiful Building in Boston”
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1999
American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1998
American Institute of Architects New England Award of Merit
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1998
Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence
[Iwerks with TAMS Architecture] 1997
Publications / Articles
Brick Article
Boston: Home of the Bean and the Brick,” Iwerks article on brick, Architecture Boston Magazine,MA, Winter 2000.
Carnegie Mellon University East Campus Project
Coherence Regained” – Carnegie Mellon University East Campus Project, Progressive Architecture magazine, October 1991
City View Elementary School
City View Elementary School in Progressive Architecture Plans: A topological Survey of Schools, March 1992
Educational Spaces
Educational Spaces, Volume 1: A Pictorial Review of Significant Spaces, featured projects: City View Magnet School, Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Royalston Elementary School, 1998.
Iwerks/Axelrod
Establishing a Threshold – Iwerks/Axelrod TAMS’ New England Architects” – Exhibition of 12 emerging architectural practices in; shown: Bank of Boston, 1985; Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1986
Malden Center MBTA Station Headhouse/Pedestrian Overpass
A Lesson in Tectonics” – Progressive Architecture magazine, Special Issue: Uses of Steel, July 1987
Modelo.io Interview
An interview with Chris Iwerks on the formation of Bertaux + Iwerks Architects – Modelo.io/blog
Mount Pleasant Elementary School
Article in Progressive Architecture magazine, August 1990
TAMS/New England Offices
Article in Architecture magazine on interior design of firm’s New England Offices, July 1986
School Portfolio
International Architecture Yearbook No. 4, featured projects: Royalston Elementary School, Royalston, MA & Vent Building 7, Boston, MA
Ventilation Building No. 8
Boston’s Mystery Landmarks, Vent Building 8 at North Station – Article in Boston Globe on several familiar yet mysterious Boston Landmarks, 2005
Ventilation Building No. 7
The Most Beautiful Building in Boston – J. Harleston Parker and His Medal” – Article in Architecture Boston, Spring 2000 featuring Vent Building 7
International Year Book of Award-Winning Architecture 1998/1999 for Vent Building No. 7/Ted Williams Tunnel, Boston, MA
Machine for Air Handling Celebrates its Mechanical Nature”– Article in Architectural Record magazine on Vent Building 7, February 1998
