Light and Air is a New York-based architecture studio led by Shane Neufeld. The practice believes that architecture is most impactful when elemental - focused on essential qualities such as light, materiality, vision and space. Light and Air strives to create dynamic spaces that resonate and enhance the individual experience in profound and unexpected ways. The studio’s artful approach, sensitive to the interplay between the built environment and the natural world, is rooted in Neufeld’s background as a painter.
Shane Neufeld
Shane Neufeld is a registered architect in New York with experience in social impact, residential, commercial as well as institutional projects. Prior to launching Light and Air in 2017, Neufeld worked with Rogers Marvel Architects in New York on a variety of projects, including the Pierhouse condominiums along Brooklyn’s waterfront, SandRidge Energy’s amenities campus in downtown Oklahoma City and a retail space for Vintry Fine Wines in Manhattan. Additionally, he was a Project Architect at Christoff : Finio Architecture, where he oversaw the design and construction of the KMAC in Louisville, Kentucky. Neufeld has also served as a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture. He received his M.A. from the Yale School of Architecture and a B.A. in Fine Arts from Amherst College, where he studied painting and literature. He was born in 1982, in Brooklyn, New York.
