Purpose
WE CREATE DELIGHT FOR OUR CLIENTS
We specialize in optimizing Light-Views-Space
We specialize in creating a home that brings you delight
We specialize in residential gut renovations
About
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Principal Profile
Allegra leads a team of talented professionals dedicated to a culture of clarity, kindness, and excellence.
This firm is dedicated to creating a delightful experience for its clients on the path to a truly delightful new home.
Allegra is a licensed architect with over 15 years of design and construction experience in and around New York City.
Before starting her own practice Allegra worked at a series of progressively larger firms doing innovative work, including work on a solar home in the Catskills, renovations of rental-to-coop 10-40 unit buildings in Harlem, residential and corporate renovations, and an expansion of JFK airport for Delta.
Through her consulting work, Allegra has developed specialties in lighting and inter-disciplinary branding and design.
Allegra’s latest innovations are an emphasis on new apartment renovation typologies and a focus on her “Light-Views-Space” design strategy in her firm’s renovations and creating a delightful process for her clients.
Allegra became a registered architect in the State of New York in 2000.
Read more about Allegra in the blog post Born to be: A NYC Apartment Renovation Specialist
Recognition and Affiliations
![Columbia University 1992-1997](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Columbia-University-1992-1997-150x150.jpg)
![Dartmouth College 1989-1992](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dartmouth-College-1989-1992-150x150.jpg)
![Rhode Island School of Design = RISD Summer 1988](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Rhode-Island-School-of-Design-RISD-Summer-1988-150x150.jpg)
![The Dalton School 1975-1988](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Dalton-School-1975-1988-150x150.jpg)
![Allegra Kochman Architecture](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Allegra-Kochman-Architecture-150x150.jpg)
![Melanie Freundlich Lighting Design 2002-2005](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Melanie-Freundlich-Lighting-Design-2002-2005-150x150.jpg)
![Skidmore Owings and Merrill = SOM 2000-2001)](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Skidmore-Owings-and-Merrill-SOM-2000-2001-150x150.jpg)
![Murphy Burnham Buttrick = MBB 1998-1999)](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Murphy-Burnham-Buttrick-MBB-1998-1999-150x150.jpg)
![Kiss + Cathcart 1996-1997](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Kiss-Cathcart-1996-1997-150x150.jpg)
![UCS Contracting 1994-1995](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCS-Contracting-1994-1995-150x150.jpg)
![State of New York Office of the Professions 2000-present)](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/State-of-New-York-Office-of-the-Professions-2000-present-150x150.jpg)
![American Institute of Architects = AIA 2000-present](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/American-Institute-of-Architects-AIA-2000-present-150x150.jpg)
![New York Institute of Technology log New York Tech](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/New-York-Institute-of-Technology-log-150x150.jpg)
![New Jersey Institute of Technology = NJIT 2006-2012) NJIT](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/New-Jersey-Institute-of-Technology-NJIT-2006-2012-150x150.jpg)
![Parsons School of Design = Parsons 2004-2006 parsons](https://akainsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Parsons-School-of-Design-Parsons-2004-2006-150x150.jpg)
HONORS + AWARDS
- Fire Island Bungalow Winner: Interior Design / Residential Category; Honorable Mention: Country Category: BLT Design Awards [2023]
- Gramercy Pied à Terre Honorable Mention: Interior Design / Residential Category: BLT Design Awards [2023]
- Upper West Side Townhouse Honorable Mention: Architectural Design / Residential Category: BLT Design Awards [2023]
- Post Graduate William Kinne Traveling Fellowship Prize: Columbia University [1996]
- Lowenfish Memorial Prize: Columbia University [1996]
- Kinne Summer Traveling Fellowship: Columbia University [1993]
- Honors Thesis: Dartmouth College [1992]
- Winner of Great Bear III Cabin Design: Dartmouth College [1990]
EXHIBITS + PUBLICATIONS
- CELEBRITY HOMES: Fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Can Now Live in the Building From the Show: Architectural Digest [April 19, 2018; by Joyce Chen]
- COOL LISTINGS: Pre-war Beauty: 6SQFT [April 19, 2018; by Michelle Cohen]
- GIMME SHELTER: Live in the building made famous by ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’: New York Post [April 18, 2018; by Jennifer Gould Keil]
- AIA Annual Subway Exhibit: West 4th Street subway station, NYC [October 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013]
- West Side Story: Interior Design [July 2000; by Julia Lewis]
- Negotiation & Duration exhibit: Columbia University, NYC [Spring 2000]
- Exchanging Views exhibit: Columbia University, NYC [Spring 1994]
- Waseda University Studio Installation: Waseda University, Tokyo Campus [Summer 1993]