Amoia Cody Architecture puts context first and builds future-facing distinctive spaces for life.
Architecture is about Process, not Style. No two building projects are the same; each requires a solution unique to the client, the program, and the site. It is the architect’s role to uncover the nature of each project to reveal its form.
Writings and Projects
Project Highlights
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55th Street Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY
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![311 Apartment Combination]()
311 Apartment Combination
New York, NY, 2026
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![Lafayette Street Facade Restoration]()
Lafayette Street Facade Restoration
New York, NY
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![Montauk CLT House]()
Montauk CLT House
Montauk, NY
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![Hawthorne Street Townhouse]()
Hawthorne Street Townhouse
Brooklyn, NY
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![Lincolnshire Boathouse and Restaurant]()
Lincolnshire Boathouse and Restaurant
Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire United Kingdom, Competition Winner
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![6th Avenue Brooklyn Renovation Addition]()
6th Avenue Brooklyn Renovation Addition
Brooklyn, NY
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![Bronx Residential New Building]()
Bronx Residential New Building
Bronx, NY
Projects
311 Apartment Combination
An interior apartment is a beloved space for artistic expression in Lower Manhattan.
A unique look at combining apartments for flexible living.
Residential Conversion
A Conversion of a Commercial Space into a Ground-Floor Loft Apartment and Complete Renovation of a Multi-Family Townhouse in Ridgewood, Queens, NY.
Ridgewood Loft
Just after finishing the proofs for our book, Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture, whose final chapter includes thermodynamic considerations that continue to inform how we design the experience of space, our client told us that the renovation we completed with her will be published in Dwell.
Dwell recognized the clarity of the space and the sensory experience shaped by the life of the client’s family, which guided the choices made to complete, furnish, and decorate the interiors. The project transformed an existing retail space into a loft.
The photo spread here is as it is published in Dwell Magazine: My House: A Queens Couple Brings the Nightlife Home to Their Color-Changing Loft
A DJ and a mortgage banker turn an old knitting factory into a chameleonic space that’s part sanctuary, part private club. Text by Jenny Xie, Photos by Matt Dutile
Hawthorne Townhouse
Complete Renovation and Restoration of a 3-story Townhouse in Brooklyn, NY.
The new homeowner sought to organize the top two floors for her future use and the bottom floor for a potential tenant, completing a three-story brownstone where outdoor living was also essential. The process of selecting shades of white paint colors against the greens of the garden led to a broader design recognition: the need for a new dining room that engages the exterior terrace, connects to the open kitchen, and supports an upper terrace for the bedroom above. Maximizing space, providing sufficient storage, and creating a clear relationship between interior life and the planned exterior spaces became the primary goals of the project. Contractor, interior designer, and photographer information available upon request.
Bronxville Residence
Complete Renovation and Skylight additions, Bronxville, NY.
Realtors sold this property to our client by describing its "classic & pristine Historic Village feel, distance to the Bronxville School, bustling Village center & Metro North. This turnkey home offers the ultimate in convenience & style. Designed by renowned architect William Bates and well preserved by only a handful of families over its many years, this architectural gem is awaiting a new family to call it home.
The home boasts a north-facing placement, ensuring fresh air while enjoying the covered porch or resting in the screened sunroom on a summer evening. While there is plenty of room for a pool, the south-facing yard will make gardening a joy with an abundance of sunlight throughout the day. The custom eat-in kitchen, family room, and chic living room & large dining room blend new world with old world seamlessly. The upper floors host five bedrooms & baths with radiant heated floors."
The renovation was to carefully remove the gingerbread-like elements both inside and out, as well as open up the rooms for today's living flexibility.
East Hampton Residence
Complete House Renovation and Restoration of Porch, Long Island, NY
The East Hampton Street Residence is a four-bedroom, 2,800-square-foot house on 1 acre. This 1920s wood-frame house with a classic gable roof is typical for the neighborhood. The owner was looking for this house type and wanted to update the plan for outdoor-indoor living. We focused on these thresholds. We expanded the kitchen by adding an eating nook. We added an outdoor dining space. We focused on permeable surfaces and rainwater collection, as well as solar and passive air opportunities with the relocation and placement of new windows. We also added a pool tiny house for guests who were only family members who would come throughout the season after work travel engagements.
6th Avenue Brooklyn Townhouse
Complete Renovation and Addition to a 2-story Townhouse in Brooklyn, NY.
The house is called Split Void. As a horizontal extension, the project uses the stair void to bring additional light into a narrow lot. The existing two-story, one-family building was completely renovated. The primary living spaces are located on the ground floor and extend outward to an exterior deck. The finished cellar serves as an off-season living area and a third space for children. The new stair, designed as a light well, creates a comfortable void that marks the transition from the entry to the private bedrooms above. Daylighting is also carefully introduced into the bedrooms, while the off-season spaces require no additional heating or cooling. Contractor information available upon request.
Lincolnshire, UK
First Place Winner, Commercial Competition - 2005
Architectural Lines in the Sand, First Place
Architectural Lines in the Sand forming the Boathouse, Lookout, and Beach Restaurant is the title of this work. The architecture extends from the landscape to offer a fluid experience from the footpath to the beach. From the footpath, you see the boathouse volume, which ends the “middle” line in the sand. This middle line houses all the project's services. The beginning provides the boat with direct access to the beach. The ending connects one back to the main beach path.
The boathouse volume curves toward the beach, opening the space to invite one into the project's upper terrace. The upper terrace leads one past the boathouse's main entry, toilets, and kitchen, then toward the restaurant's main space. The restaurant can be either fully enclosed with infill wood panels or an open-air canvas structure, depending on the season. If one continues up the ramp, one emerges from this landscape into a dune-viewing/bird-watching
Project Featured in The Plan Magazine
Balboa Valley Housing, San Francisco
Shortlist Competition Winner
Balboa Valley, San Francisco Housing was a shortlisted competition proposal for transit-oriented affordable housing at San Francisco’s Balboa Park BART Station. Spanning the light rail yard and I-280, the project combines housing, transit, retail, public space, and community amenities on a long-span concrete platform that preserves transit operations below. Above, landscaped public space reconnects surrounding neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and transit.
The proposal introduces “Green Zoning,” pairing increased density with expanded accessible green space and public amenities. A modular mass-timber housing system creates varied apartments, terraces, daylight, and planted elevations that support passive environmental performance. Balboa Valley proposes a model for higher-density urban living in which infrastructure supports a greener, healthier, and more connected city.
Publications
Alvar Aalto and Urban Design
Read a review in - Arkkitehti - Finnish Architectural Review
This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aalto’s regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in which he incorporated sustainability, resiliency, energy, and health, and examines how contemporary architects and planners can learn from this approach for the betterment of 21st-century urban design and our future cities.
The Alvar Aalto Atelier planned and promoted regional development that combined ecological features, considered density, and offered a framework for informality, including flexible, adaptable infrastructures, with physical plans integrating communities with nature. These plans were largely suburban and contained vital lessons on how to deal with sprawl, traffic, landscape, energy, labor, and industry. This book analyzes letters, writings, and drawings not seen outside the Alvar Aalto Foundation, to review alternative ways to examine suburban landscapes and urban typologies, through sustainability, ecology, and use of digital technologies.
This is an essential read for all those interested in the urban design work of Alvar Aalto. Written in an accessible way for those new to the work of Aalto, Architecture and Urban Design students of all levels will also find this a helpful guide on ecologically and socially responsible design.
Alvar Aalto and Urban Design
By Robert Cody, Angela Amoia
ISBN 9781032779362
307 Pages 16 Color & 74 B/W Illustrations
Published October 24, 2025, by Routledge
Table of Contents
1. PATTERN and CONTEXT
2. MAP and LAYER
3. OBJECT and FIELD
4. NETWORK and FLOW
5. EVOLVE and ADAPT
6. SCAFFOLD and ARMATURE
7. ENERGY and EMERGENCE
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations that enhance the assessment and values of our material choices. It offers a critical look to the past to inspire the future.
This new edition looks to Alvar Aalto as the primary protagonist for channeling discussions related to these topics. Architects like ALA, Shigeru Ban, 3XN, Peter Zumthor, and others also play the role of contemporary guides in this review. The work of Aalto and selected contemporary architects, along with computer modeling software, showcase the importance of comprehensive design. Organized by the five Ts of contemporary architectural discourse—Typology, Topology, Tectonics, Technic, Thermodynamics—each chapter is used to connect history through Aalto and develop conversations concerning historical and contemporary models, digital simulations, ecological and passive/active material concerns, construction and fabrications, and healthy sensorial environments.
Written for students and academics, this book bridges knowledge from academia into practice and vice versa to help architects become better stewards of the environment, make healthier and more accountable buildings, and find ways to introduce policy to make technology a critical component in thinking about and making architecture.
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
By Robert Cody, Angela Amoia
ISBN 9780367749736
250 Pages 81 B/W Illustrations
Published September 9, 2022, by Routledge
Table of Contents
1. TOPOLOGY–DESIGN IN LIGHT OF PLACE
2. TYPOLOGY—ENVELOPMENT(S) OF SPACE
3. TECTONICS—ELEMENTS AND ATMOSPHERES
4. TECHNIC—FLEXIBILITY AND THE NEW STANDARD
5. THERMODYNAMIC—HEALTH AND INSTRUMENTS OF SENSATION
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