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ALWAYS ALREADY is a full-service architectural and interior design office that produces commercial, civic, and residential spaces. We work across the United States, guiding clients through all phases of a project, including onboarding and coordinating local professionals and builders. What results are beautiful, thoughtful environments that embody our clients’ needs and that are executed with efficiency and professionalism.

Our work values tactile experiences and a connection to place, and our process embraces all scales. We consider and shape the broader systems within which our spaces are situated and we often design the furniture, hardware, objects, and artworks that animate our spaces.

Our interests and experiences span a breadth of disciplines from fine arts to economics and everything in between, and we see it all as integral to our design process. We aim to create spaces that make people feel good mentally, emotionally, and physically, and we ground all projects in sound ecological practices.

Founder Eliana Dotan, RA, has been designing across the country and in Europe for over a decade. She founded Dotan Gertler Studio in 2016, which later became Always Already, after honing her skills in both renovation and ground-up architectural and interior design at General Assembly Design, Allied Works Architecture, and Studio Olafur Eliasson. She has a Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where she was mentored by Pierre Herzog and Jacques de Meuron. Eliana taught architecture studios for many years at CCNY Spitzer School of Architecture and Barnard College, and has juried reviews and lectured at MIT, RISD, McGill University, and Harvard GSD among others. She is licensed as an architect by the State of Massachusetts.
eliana@alwaysalready.us

Studio Manager Tracy Antonopoulos comes to design by way of filmmaking and photography.  She graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and has directed films for companies such as Opening Ceremony and Peroni Nastro Azzurro.  She brings a keen aesthetic eye and an ability to understand and manage the many complex and moving parts that interplay in a building project--skills honed in the film industry and indespensible to our design office.
tracy@alwaysalready.us
A note on our name:
The Always Already is a condition that has continued without an identifiable beginning. Once a certain place in time is achieved, places in time earlier are unthinkable. In our design process, we work toward solving problems through discovering what was always already embedded in the project at hand. And once built, we hope that our projects, in their striking contemporariness, feel like they were always already there…

Select Client List:
MCA Development
Institutes of Health
Model Restaurant Group
São João National Theater

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