ZH Architects

Established in New York in 2000, ZH Architects has evolved into an award-winning firm renowned for its rigorous integration of modern design principles and the leading-edge technologies and materials that advance low-carbon, high-performance buildings.

Founding principals Marianne Hyde and Stas Zakrzewski are staunch advocates of sustainability in the built environment and committed to designing structures that can withstand the challenges of climate change while championing affordability and universal accessibility to the benefits of living in sustainable environments.

Through scholarship, best practices, and in-the-field experience on an array of residential—both single-family and high-rise—commercial, and institutional commissions, they have over the last 12 years emerged as experts whose knowledge and counsel in the energy-saving Passive House and Mass Timber movements is sought by developers, peers, and municipal agencies alike.

The upshot of their collective experience is multi-fold. In addition to being known for their versatility, their design sensibility, and the complementarity of their expertise, Marianne and Stas differentiate themselves in the sector with their ability to provide hands-on leadership through the duration of a project. The continuity of their management approach has led to enduring relationships and praise from colleagues, collaborators, and clients.

Collectively, Marianne and Stas have acquired more than four decades of design and project-management experience, both in partnership at ZH Architects for the last 20 years, and previously at premier firms including Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Wendy Joseph, and Maya Lin.

ZH is a WBE firm (Women-Owned Business Enterprise), as certified by the City of New York and the State of New York.