DIVISION is a design & fabrication studio based in Brooklyn, NY. With a background in architecture, the studio has been involved in the production of projects across multiple scales and mediums, from interior renovations, to large-scale sculptural installations, to product and furniture design. Our care for materials and methods is an extension of our continuing investigation of digital techniques and new ways of making.
Studio Director
Brandt Graves received his Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute in 2009. Since then he has worked with several young, dynamic design practices and fabricators on projects involving an extensive range of scale and technique. He has designed projects for the New York offices Asymptote, Bureau V, Leong Leong, Acconci Studio, Evans & Paul, 212 Box, and Studio V. His recurrent work with SOFTlab, designing and fabricating large scale installations, contributed to their finalist award for the AIA’s New Practices New York. As an architectural designer for RAAD, he managed the Lowline, working as one of the lead designers and coordinators for the Imagining the Lowline exhibition. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Cooper Union, and The New School, as well as a former Architecture Associate at Columbia University, teaching digital techniques within the Graduate School of Architecture Planning & Preservation. He has collaborated with theverymany, Marius Watz, and suckerPUNCH, and founded a design studio with his former partner at thefuturefuture. His work has gained extensive exposure and he has been featured as Pratt Institute select alumni.
Architecture Director
Maro Mavri is a registered architect in the state of New York and in Greece with more than 15 years of experience, delivering a full range of project typologies, scale, and complexity.
Maro is a lead architect and project manager for private residencies, large-scale residential, and mixed‐use projects. She has overseen all phases of the design of million square feet projects focusing on the details but without losing sight of the big picture and of creating spaces to live.
In the past she has worked with the firms of Costas Kondylis Architecture and Perkins Eastman Architecture and Fogarty Finger
She obtained a Diploma with great honors in Architecture and Engineering from Greece, and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University.
She is a LEED Green Associate and Well AP