ABOUT NICHOLAS POTTS, AIA, Founder, Nicholas Potts Studio
Prior to entering private practice, Nicholas Potts led landmark projects at world-renowned firms—including SHoP Architects’ 111 West 57th Street and Bjarke Ingels Group’s Spiral at Hudson Yards—and acted as an editor on “Elements of Architecture’ at the XIV Venice Biennale and its companion, a 2600-page encyclopedic history of the everyday elements of architecture with Rem Koolhaas/AMO and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, published by Taschen in 2018.
In addition to his architectural practice, Potts contributes to the design community through writing and public engagement. He regularly shares his insights on design in publications including Architectural Digest, Vogue, and Elle Decor. and as the recurring host of Architectural Digest’s ‘Walking Tour’ video series.
Licensed: New York, Washington DC, California, Minnesota
STUDIO VISION
Nicholas Potts Studio is an architecture and interior design practice based out of Washington, D.C. known for its skillful synthesis of architectural history with contemporary refinement. Founded by architect Nicholas Potts, the studio creates environments that are artistically rich yet deeply attuned to their historical and cultural contexts. With a background rooted in historical research, Potts approaches each project with an expansive view of architecture that engages with history, beauty, and craft, bringing together a fresh thinking about the past with a lush sense of materials. The results are environments that feel at once grounded and unexpected, layered with detail and imbued with a quiet rigor. The studio’s work has been published widely in Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Domino and Dwell, among others. Every project is seen as a unique opportunity to learn something new, using the past to lend texture—not nostalgia—to the present and conjures spaces that are less about statement than about discovery, where beauty is not just seen, but felt.
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STUDIO TEAM
Nicholas Potts, AIA, Principal
Charlotte Bravo, Senior Designer
Virginia Boyer, Assistant Designer
Photo: Jennifer Hughes