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tsa Thurlow Small Architecture, Inc. is an architecture and urban design office begun in 2001 by Maia Small and Andrew Thurlow that operates in both the local networks of Rhode Island and the global discourse of architecture and landscape urbanism. TSA develops systems-based design that performs—encouraging evolving relationships between interior and exterior environments, public and private spaces, and people and programs. TSA projects are primarily at the very large or the very small scales, from transit oriented development urban design to office interiors for creative economy clients.
Rafael, the $40 M Renovation and Addition to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Master Planning for the De Young Museum. She has also taught architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maia Small, AIA, a Partner in TSA, is a licensed architect in the State of Rhode Island and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Board. Along with her professional work, she currently serves on the board of the Pawtucket Citizens Development Corporation, the City of Pawtucket Riverfront Commission, and the steering committee of the Pawtucket Alliance for Downtown Success.
His previous professional work in Philadelphia at the office of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates includes as a designer on the Trenton Firehouse and the Irvine Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania. At Ballinger, he was a designer on Headend and Hub Facilities Prototypes for Comcast Communications Company, the Cabrini College, Sports Recreation Center in Radnor, Pennsylvania and Henry M. Rowan Hall, School of Engineering at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. For Rowan, Ballinger received a 1999 Highest Honor Award and a 1996 Design Excellence Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter.
Prior to TSA, her previous experience was in the New York office of Bernard Tschumi Architects as the lead designer on the Downsview Park finalist proposal for a $145 national park in Toronto, Canada and in the San Francisco office of Mark Cavagnero Associates, where she assisted with the design and documents for the $20 M Renovation and Addition to the Rafael Film Center in San
Andrew Thurlow is a Partner in Thurlow Small Architecture and a tenured Associate Professor in Architecture at Roger Williams University where he founded and runs the School of Art, Architecture and Preservation Digital Manufacturing Laboratory.
He has also taught architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and the University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design.