Bernhard Karpf FAIA
Bernhard Karpf is the former Managing Principal of Richard Meier & Partners and Co-Founder of Karpf Khalili Architects. His new studio at Karpf Architects continues his work on significant public and private buildings worldwide. In his over 30-year career, he developed a distinguished body of modern works of architecture, grounded in timeless principles of architecture, distinctive for its order and composition, utilization of natural light, meticulous assembly, and site strategies and transformations.
Bernhard Karpf’s work has been published extensively and has received numerous awards from institutions such as the American Institute of Architects, Progressive Architecture, Bund Deutscher Architekten, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has been invited to speak at institutions worldwide, among them the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, the AIA Convention in Boston, the Preservation Conference in Indiana, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City, and the Academy for Architectural Culture in Hamburg, Germany.
Karpf studied architecture and literature at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, where he received his diploma. After being awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship he continued his education in the Master of Architecture/Urban Design Studio at Cornell University. He is licensed as architect in New York and in Germany. A member of the American Institute of Architects, he was elevated to the College of Fellows in 2018.
Dawn Burcaw Karpf RA
Dawn Burcaw Karpf is the former Senior Designer of Huniford Design Studio. Her joining Karpf Architects as Director of Interiors brings over 25 years of experience in design from ground-up architectural projects to interior renovations of all scales.
Dawn’s passion for visual and tactile compositions guides her approach to each project. Equally important to her is how to incorporate nature into the habitable space, all resulting in elegant and minimal details that bring character to the finished interior.
Having lived for over 25 years in the Catskills and in Brooklyn provided her with an appreciation for nature’s transitions throughout the seasons, revealed through the differing values of natural light in the built environment.
Dawn studied architecture at Cornell University where she received her Bachelor of Architecture degree. She is a licensed architect in New York.