Chris McVoy is co-founder O’Neill McVoy (OM) Architects, a Brooklyn-based multi-scale practice which explores the latent potential and special qualities of a project’s site and aspirations to enact architecture that catalyzes its purpose. McVoy holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.
The studio’s award-winning built work and theoretical proposals include the Bronx Children’s Museum - an adaptive re-use transformation of a Powerhouse into a topographic children’s museum, and Church Hill Community Hybrid - a community college, culinary school, and workforce housing for an underserved neighborhood of Richmond, VA.
McVoy is Partner Emeritus of Steven Holl Architects where, with Steven Holl, he led several internationally recognized, award-winning cultural and university projects including The REACH Expansion of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Campus Expansion, VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art, and The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building.
While at MacDowell, he studied how low-embodied carbon strategies engender new architectural forms, spaces, and structural systems. The design experimentation will investigate through drawing and physical models prototypes of hybrid mass timber/ tension-steel structures that lead to new architectural spatial expression.
