Scott SPECHT – Specht Architects

Scott Specht is the founder and principal of Specht Architects, an architecture, design, property development, and research firm with offices in Austin, Texas, and New York City. Specht Architects’ award-winning, and widely published work includes residential, commercial and university-based projects, including the Carpenter, an environmentally sustainable adaptive re-use of a former union hall; the Preston Hollow Residence, featured as a 2020 Record Houses award winner; and the Sangre de Cristo House, which recently received the Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture. Specht’s work has received multiple awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural League of New York, and the Texas Society of Architects among many others. The firm’s designs were featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Municipal Art Society, and the Van Alen Institute. Press coverage of Specht’s work has been considerable, and includes features in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Architectural Record, Architecture, Architectural Digest, Praxis, Interior Design, Residential Architect, Metropolis, Texas Architect, and many others. Scott has also been featured on television shows on HGTV, The Vice Network, CBS, DIY TV, and others. Over a 25-year career, Specht has gained significant international recognition and their work has been published on every continent except Antarctica.

Scott lectures frequently about design theory and his conceptual work at conferences and symposia sponsored by such hosts as TEDx Talks, the American Institute of Architects, The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Florida, and many others. Scott has also co-authored “Coffee Lids”, a humorous history of the design and development of a utilitarian object. In addition to his work at Specht Architects and Specht Harpman, Scott was a consulting designer for Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin and worked with that firm on its winning New York World Trade Center planning competition scheme. Scott was also a designer with Deborah Berke Architect, and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, both in New York.

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