Ed Kopel Architects is a full-service firm specializing in design-intensive projects that demand imaginative solutions. The firm's current work is split between custom residences and hotel renovations in New York City.

The firm does not believe in the primacy of one particular style. All projects have a style, whether considered or not, and all styles deal with the same fundamentals: space, light, form, color, materiality, usability and craft. Acknowledging that style is a fact, historical precedent must be considered in relation to every design problem.

While Ed would like to believe – like the great mid-century formalist Eero Saarinen – that there should be a "style for each particular job," his leanings are toward 20th Century modernism. However, the modernism he strives to achieve is about warmth and individuality.

Much of that individuality comes from Ed’s experience with crafts and a belief that the expression of the "worker’s vibrations" should be exposed rather than concealed. As a teenager, he was very involved with ceramics, weaving, and fine woodworking. Being taught by craftsmen who were artists and artists who were craftsmen, Ed saw that the lines between the two were blurred. To him, architecture is about both.

Ed’s work has been published in The New York Times, Lodging Hospitality, Urban Land Magazine, and Oculus. He has taught a required master’s level course in hotel design and development at New York University.

Ed Kopel, AIA, received his Master’s degree in Architecture at Yale University where he was awarded the Charles O. Matchum Scholarship for Excellence in Architectural Design. Following graduation he was a project designer at various New York City firms including Robert A. M. Stern Architects and Fox & Fowle Architects. After licensure, he began working as a design project manager for developers of boutique hotels completing numerous projects including the renovation of the Roger Williams and Wales Hotels, and the 100 room expansion of the Shoreham. At the Loews Corporation he was the design architect and senior project manager for the renovation of the Loews New York Hotel's lobby, penthouse, and exterior.

Two real estate management firms currently engage Ed as their building architect for multiple properties. In this capacity, he reviews drawings prepared by other architects for proposed renovations and alterations.

He is a registered architect in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and a member of the American Institute of Architects.