About DIA
Our Full Range of SERVICES
We design buildings, places, and possibilities for what comes next.
Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C. is a New York-based architecture practice working across residential, commercial, mixed-use, industrial, and advanced-environment projects.
We believe architecture begins with possibility: the possibility of transforming a site, improving how people live and work, strengthening an investment, elevating a neighborhood, or giving form to an idea that has not yet been built.
Our work helps clients move confidently from ambition to architecture. We study the opportunity, define a clear strategy, develop an inspired design, and guide the project through the practical realities of approvals, coordination, documentation, and construction.
Because a beautiful idea matters. And a beautiful idea that can be responsibly built, carefully detailed, and meaningfully experienced matters even more.
We design buildings, places, and possibilities for what comes next.Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C. is a New York-based architecture practice working across residential, commercial, mixed-use, industrial, and advanced-environment projects.We believe architecture begins with possibility: the possibility of transforming a site, improving how people live and work, strengthening an investment, elevating a neighborhood, or giving form to an idea that has not yet been built.Our work helps clients move confidently from ambition to architecture. We study the opportunity, define a clear strategy, develop an inspired design, and guide the project through the practical realities of approvals, coordination, documentation, and construction.Because a beautiful idea matters. And a beautiful idea that can be responsibly built, carefully detailed, and meaningfully experienced matters even more.
ABOUT OUR PRACTICE
Architecture shaped by vision, judgment, and the realities of building well.
Every project begins with an opportunity. Sometimes it is a remarkable site. Sometimes it is an existing building waiting for a new chapter. Sometimes it is a family imagining a home, a developer considering an investment, or an organization preparing for a future that demands a different kind of environment.
DIA helps clients recognize the full potential of those opportunities and develop them with clarity. We work with homeowners, developers, property owners, businesses, institutions, and technical organizations on projects that require thoughtful design and reliable guidance. Our process brings together feasibility, planning, architecture, interiors, materiality, environmental performance, visualization, technical coordination, and construction understanding.
The result is architecture that is expressive without being wasteful, ambitious without losing discipline, and designed to endure beyond the moment of completion. We create homes that enrich everyday life. Buildings that contribute to their communities. Developments that unite design quality with long-term value. Advanced environments that extend the reach of architecture into new territory. That is the promise of good architecture: it helps people see a better future, then gives them a credible path to build it.
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
To create architecture that inspires people, strengthens places, and delivers enduring value.
To create architecture that inspires people, strengthens places, and delivers enduring value.
Our mission is to transform meaningful ideas into places of lasting consequence. We believe architecture should improve the human experience: bringing light into a home, dignity into a shared space, vitality into a street, clarity into a complex development, and imagination into environments shaped by new technologies. Each project deserves an approach that is both creative and intelligent. We listen carefully, analyze thoroughly, design boldly, and coordinate rigorously. We help our clients understand not only what a project can become, but how to make it real with confidence. Beauty is not an indulgence. It is part of value. So are performance, durability, functionality, sustainability, and the sense that a building belongs to its place and to the people it serves. Our purpose is to create architecture worth building, worth inhabiting, and worth carrying forward.
Our mission is to transform meaningful ideas into places of lasting consequence. We believe architecture should improve the human experience: bringing light into a home, dignity into a shared space, vitality into a street, clarity into a complex development, and imagination into environments shaped by new technologies. Each project deserves an approach that is both creative and intelligent. We listen carefully, analyze thoroughly, design boldly, and coordinate rigorously. We help our clients understand not only what a project can become, but how to make it real with confidence. Beauty is not an indulgence. It is part of value. So are performance, durability, functionality, sustainability, and the sense that a building belongs to its place and to the people it serves. Our purpose is to create architecture worth building, worth inhabiting, and worth carrying forward.
Daniel Inocente
Principal Architect & CEO
OUR MISSION
To create architecture that inspires people, strengthens places, and delivers enduring value.
Our mission is to transform meaningful ideas into places of lasting consequence. We believe architecture should improve the human experience: bringing light into a home, dignity into a shared space, vitality into a street, clarity into a complex development, and imagination into environments shaped by new technologies. Each project deserves an approach that is both creative and intelligent. We listen carefully, analyze thoroughly, design boldly, and coordinate rigorously. We help our clients understand not only what a project can become, but how to make it real with confidence. Beauty is not an indulgence. It is part of value. So are performance, durability, functionality, sustainability, and the sense that a building belongs to its place and to the people it serves. Our purpose is to create architecture worth building, worth inhabiting, and worth carrying forward.
Daniel Inocente
Principal Architect & CEO
OUR VISION
OUR VISION
A practice connecting architecture, development, technology, and the future of human experience.
A practice connecting architecture, development, technology, and the future of human experience.
The world is changing quickly, and architecture has an essential role to play in shaping that change well. Cities need more thoughtful housing and more humane development. Families seek homes that are healthy, resilient, efficient, and deeply personal. Businesses and institutions need environments that adapt to new ways of working and gathering. New industries require places that have never existed before. Humanity is beginning to think seriously about living and working beyond familiar boundaries. DIA is built for this expanded architectural landscape. Our work connects the intimacy of a residence with the complexity of urban development, the performance of specialized facilities, and the ambition of advanced environments. Across every scale, we bring the same commitment: to understand the opportunity fully, to design with conviction, and to guide the work toward a built result that exceeds the ordinary. The future is not something architecture should merely respond to. It is something architecture can help shape.
The world is changing quickly, and architecture has an essential role to play in shaping that change well. Cities need more thoughtful housing and more humane development. Families seek homes that are healthy, resilient, efficient, and deeply personal. Businesses and institutions need environments that adapt to new ways of working and gathering. New industries require places that have never existed before. Humanity is beginning to think seriously about living and working beyond familiar boundaries. DIA is built for this expanded architectural landscape. Our work connects the intimacy of a residence with the complexity of urban development, the performance of specialized facilities, and the ambition of advanced environments. Across every scale, we bring the same commitment: to understand the opportunity fully, to design with conviction, and to guide the work toward a built result that exceeds the ordinary. The future is not something architecture should merely respond to. It is something architecture can help shape.
OUR VISION
A practice connecting architecture, development, technology, and the future of human experience.
The world is changing quickly, and architecture has an essential role to play in shaping that change well. Cities need more thoughtful housing and more humane development. Families seek homes that are healthy, resilient, efficient, and deeply personal. Businesses and institutions need environments that adapt to new ways of working and gathering. New industries require places that have never existed before. Humanity is beginning to think seriously about living and working beyond familiar boundaries. DIA is built for this expanded architectural landscape. Our work connects the intimacy of a residence with the complexity of urban development, the performance of specialized facilities, and the ambition of advanced environments. Across every scale, we bring the same commitment: to understand the opportunity fully, to design with conviction, and to guide the work toward a built result that exceeds the ordinary. The future is not something architecture should merely respond to. It is something architecture can help shape.
Clients & Strategic Partners
SELECTED EXPERIENCE + COLLABORATION
SELECTED EXPERIENCE + COLLABORATION
Broad experience. Focused purpose. Architecture designed to move people and projects forward.
Broad experience. Focused purpose. Architecture designed to move people and projects forward.
DIA draws upon experience across residential architecture, commercial and mixed-use development, urban design, interiors, high-performance buildings, industrial design, aerospace environments, and future infrastructure. This breadth gives our work perspective.
DIA draws upon experience across residential architecture, commercial and mixed-use development, urban design, interiors, high-performance buildings, industrial design, aerospace environments, and future infrastructure. This breadth gives our work perspective.
A residence is not simply a collection of rooms. It is a setting for life, memory, comfort, and belonging. A mixed-use building is not simply an envelope of rentable area. It is part of a street, a neighborhood, and an investment in the future of a community. A specialized facility is not simply technical infrastructure. It is an environment where people, systems, and ambition must work together seamlessly. We collaborate with clients, developers, engineers, planners, builders, fabricators, institutions, and strategic partners to bring that perspective into built work. Great projects are rarely the product of a single voice. They emerge when the right people come together around a clear vision, high standards, and the shared determination to build something worthwhile.
A residence is not simply a collection of rooms. It is a setting for life, memory, comfort, and belonging. A mixed-use building is not simply an envelope of rentable area. It is part of a street, a neighborhood, and an investment in the future of a community. A specialized facility is not simply technical infrastructure. It is an environment where people, systems, and ambition must work together seamlessly. We collaborate with clients, developers, engineers, planners, builders, fabricators, institutions, and strategic partners to bring that perspective into built work. Great projects are rarely the product of a single voice. They emerge when the right people come together around a clear vision, high standards, and the shared determination to build something worthwhile.
The process gave us clarity from the beginning.
“Daniel helped us understand the potential of the project before we committed to a direction. The work was thoughtful, strategic, and beautifully communicated.”
— Residential Client
A rare balance of design vision and technical understanding.
“Daniel Inocente Architecture brought a future-focused point of view while staying grounded in feasibility, approvals, and what could actually be built.”
— Development Client
The design thinking was clear, elevated, and practical.
“The team translated a complex idea into a strong architectural direction with visuals and recommendations we could use immediately.”
— Commercial Client
The process gave us clarity from the beginning.
“Daniel helped us understand the potential of the project before we committed to a direction. The work was thoughtful, strategic, and beautifully communicated.”
— Residential Client
A rare balance of design vision and technical understanding.
“Daniel Inocente Architecture brought a future-focused point of view while staying grounded in feasibility, approvals, and what could actually be built.”
— Development Client
The design thinking was clear, elevated, and practical.
“The team translated a complex idea into a strong architectural direction with visuals and recommendations we could use immediately.”
— Commercial Client
OUR PROCESS
From First Possibility to Built Reality
From First Possibility to Built Reality
A successful architectural process should give clients confidence, momentum, and a growing sense of what their project can become. Our process is designed to do exactly that.
A successful architectural process should give clients confidence, momentum, and a growing sense of what their project can become. Our process is designed to do exactly that.
STEP
01
Discover + Define
Every project begins by listening carefully and looking closely. We learn the client’s aspirations, understand the site or existing building, clarify the program, discuss priorities, examine budget and schedule, and establish what success should look and feel like. This early work creates the foundation for everything that follows. It allows a project to begin not with assumptions, but with purpose.
STEP
01
Discover + Define
Every project begins by listening carefully and looking closely. We learn the client’s aspirations, understand the site or existing building, clarify the program, discuss priorities, examine budget and schedule, and establish what success should look and feel like. This early work creates the foundation for everything that follows. It allows a project to begin not with assumptions, but with purpose.
STEP
02
Explore + Position
We investigate the possibilities of the project and identify the strategy that can carry it forward. Depending on the assignment, this may include zoning and code analysis, development yield, site capacity, massing studies, renovation potential, environmental goals, early planning, phasing, market positioning, and the relationship between design quality and value. This is where opportunity becomes visible. For clients considering development or investment, this phase helps reveal what a property might truly support. For homeowners, it helps define the character, performance, and daily experience of a future home. For organizations, it provides a clear architectural direction around which decisions can align.
STEP
02
Explore + Position
We investigate the possibilities of the project and identify the strategy that can carry it forward. Depending on the assignment, this may include zoning and code analysis, development yield, site capacity, massing studies, renovation potential, environmental goals, early planning, phasing, market positioning, and the relationship between design quality and value. This is where opportunity becomes visible. For clients considering development or investment, this phase helps reveal what a property might truly support. For homeowners, it helps define the character, performance, and daily experience of a future home. For organizations, it provides a clear architectural direction around which decisions can align.
STEP
03
Design + Refine
With a strong foundation in place, we develop the architecture. Plans, sections, massing, façades, interiors, landscape relationships, material palettes, environmental strategies, and visualizations are studied together as parts of a coherent whole. We design spaces that feel generous, considered, and memorable. We look for the opportunities that elevate a project: the quality of daylight, the sequence of arrival, the relationship between interior and exterior, the character of a façade, the tactility of a material, and the moments that give a building its identity. Design is where the project begins to speak. Our role is to ensure it says something lasting.
STEP
03
Design + Refine
With a strong foundation in place, we develop the architecture. Plans, sections, massing, façades, interiors, landscape relationships, material palettes, environmental strategies, and visualizations are studied together as parts of a coherent whole. We design spaces that feel generous, considered, and memorable. We look for the opportunities that elevate a project: the quality of daylight, the sequence of arrival, the relationship between interior and exterior, the character of a façade, the tactility of a material, and the moments that give a building its identity. Design is where the project begins to speak. Our role is to ensure it says something lasting.
STEP
04
Coordinate + Deliver
A strong design deserves equally strong execution. We develop coordinated information, engage appropriate consultants, support approvals and permitting, resolve technical requirements, and prepare the work to move confidently toward construction. This phase is not separate from design. It is where design gains precision, strength, and credibility. Well-coordinated architecture provides clarity for clients and builders alike. It protects the essential ideas of the project while giving those ideas the technical foundation required to become real.
STEP
04
Coordinate + Deliver
A strong design deserves equally strong execution. We develop coordinated information, engage appropriate consultants, support approvals and permitting, resolve technical requirements, and prepare the work to move confidently toward construction. This phase is not separate from design. It is where design gains precision, strength, and credibility. Well-coordinated architecture provides clarity for clients and builders alike. It protects the essential ideas of the project while giving those ideas the technical foundation required to become real.
STEP
05
Build + Realize
Construction is the moment when intention becomes experience. Materials arrive. Light enters the spaces. Details take shape. A building begins to belong to its setting and to the people who will use it. During this phase, DIA remains engaged in guiding decisions, reviewing progress, responding to conditions, and helping preserve the quality and purpose established from the beginning. The completed project should do more than fulfill a brief. It should reveal the value of every thoughtful decision made along the way.
STEP
05
Build + Realize
Construction is the moment when intention becomes experience. Materials arrive. Light enters the spaces. Details take shape. A building begins to belong to its setting and to the people who will use it. During this phase, DIA remains engaged in guiding decisions, reviewing progress, responding to conditions, and helping preserve the quality and purpose established from the beginning. The completed project should do more than fulfill a brief. It should reveal the value of every thoughtful decision made along the way.
OUR PRINCIPLES
What Guides the Work
What Guides the Work
Our work is guided by clarity, design excellence, technical discipline, and a belief that architecture should serve both people and the future.
Our work is guided by clarity, design excellence, technical discipline, and a belief that architecture should serve both people and the future.
01
Begin With Possibility
Every project contains an opportunity to improve how people live, work, gather, or imagine the future. We begin by finding it and giving it form.
02
Design With Purpose
03
Make Complexity Clear
04
Build With Integrity
05
Collaborate Generously
06
Create Enduring Value
01
Begin With Possibility
Every project contains an opportunity to improve how people live, work, gather, or imagine the future. We begin by finding it and giving it form.
02
Design With Purpose
03
Make Complexity Clear
04
Build With Integrity
05
Collaborate Generously
06
Create Enduring Value
COMPANY HISTORY
OUR STORY
A Practice Formed by Architecture, Technology, and the Belief That Design Can Expand What Is Possible
Daniel Inocente Architecture was founded to create buildings and environments that join imagination with discipline, and ambition with a clear understanding of how meaningful work is delivered. The practice draws upon Daniel Inocente’s experience contributing to significant cultural, urban, residential, mixed-use, aerospace, and advanced-environment projects. Across this range of work runs a consistent belief: architecture has the power to improve daily life while also preparing people, organizations, and cities for the future.
Early Career
Gehry Partners + Landmark Design
Daniel contributed to major international architectural work including Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Battersea redevelopment. These experiences established an early foundation in ambitious architecture: the power of form, the cultural role of buildings, the craft of developing extraordinary ideas, and the coordinated effort required to deliver projects of lasting public significance.
New York
Global Architecture + Advanced Design
At Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York, Daniel contributed to major international high-rise, mixed-use, and urban projects. Working within a global practice reinforced the importance of architecture at the scale of the city: how buildings shape skylines, streets, workplaces, public life, and the long-term evolution of urban places. His work also extended into advanced architectural collaborations involving ESA, Lockheed, MIT, and other universities, expanding his experience at the intersection of architecture, research, engineering, and new human environments.
2023
Blue Origin + NASA Programs
As a Senior Space Architect at Blue Origin, Daniel contributed architectural expertise to government and commercial space initiatives, including NASA-related human habitation and space systems programs. This work advanced a conviction central to DIA today: architecture is fundamentally about making life possible, meaningful, safe, and inspiring within the environments we create. Whether designing on Earth or for destinations beyond it, architecture must respond to human needs, coordinate complex systems, and help turn exploration into inhabitable reality.
2023
Foundation of DIA
Daniel established Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C. in New York to create a practice capable of connecting architecture, development, technology, and future environments within one design-led vision. DIA was founded on the belief that clients deserve an architect who can see both the promise of an idea and the path required to make it real.
2023–Present
Residential + Commercial Practice
DIA has developed a growing body of residential, commercial, renovation, interior, and mixed-use work. Across these projects, the practice helps clients move from initial possibility and feasibility through architecture, approvals, documentation, visualization, coordination, and construction. The work is grounded in a simple ambition: to design places of beauty, warmth, identity, and lasting usefulness—buildings that serve their owners well and contribute positively to the settings in which they are built.
2024
Architecture + Education
Daniel joined Arizona State University as a Professor of Practice in Architecture and Space Architecture, bringing professional experience in buildings, technology, advanced environments, and design leadership into architectural education. Teaching is an extension of practice: an opportunity to cultivate curiosity, rigor, responsibility, and the confidence to imagine better environments for future generations.
2025
Expanded Practice + Global Clients
DIA expanded its work with private developers, public and government-related initiatives in New York, international competitions, and clients in advanced industries including Virgin Galactic. This expanding body of work reflects the firm’s broader purpose: to contribute meaningful architecture across homes, buildings, cities, specialized facilities, and environments that define emerging futures.
2025
Published Architectural Leadership
Daniel authored Space Architecture: Principles, Challenges, and Innovations, published by Wiley. The book advances architecture’s role in shaping human habitation, extreme environments, and the future of life beyond Earth, while reinforcing a principle equally important to every DIA project: architecture is the art and discipline of creating places where human possibility can thrive.
2026 + Beyond
Future Practice
Today, DIA continues to grow as a design practice focused on buildings, cities, international projects, and advanced environments. The scale and subject of the work may vary—from a carefully designed home to a mixed-use development, from an urban opportunity to a specialized future-facing facility—but the intention remains consistent: To create architecture that inspires confidence, elevates experience, strengthens value, and leaves behind places worthy of the future they help build.
Early Career
Gehry Partners + Landmark Design
Daniel contributed to major international architectural work including Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Battersea redevelopment. These experiences established an early foundation in ambitious architecture: the power of form, the cultural role of buildings, the craft of developing extraordinary ideas, and the coordinated effort required to deliver projects of lasting public significance.
New York
Global Architecture + Advanced Design
At Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York, Daniel contributed to major international high-rise, mixed-use, and urban projects. Working within a global practice reinforced the importance of architecture at the scale of the city: how buildings shape skylines, streets, workplaces, public life, and the long-term evolution of urban places. His work also extended into advanced architectural collaborations involving ESA, Lockheed, MIT, and other universities, expanding his experience at the intersection of architecture, research, engineering, and new human environments.
2023
Blue Origin + NASA Programs
As a Senior Space Architect at Blue Origin, Daniel contributed architectural expertise to government and commercial space initiatives, including NASA-related human habitation and space systems programs. This work advanced a conviction central to DIA today: architecture is fundamentally about making life possible, meaningful, safe, and inspiring within the environments we create. Whether designing on Earth or for destinations beyond it, architecture must respond to human needs, coordinate complex systems, and help turn exploration into inhabitable reality.
2023
Foundation of DIA
Daniel established Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C. in New York to create a practice capable of connecting architecture, development, technology, and future environments within one design-led vision. DIA was founded on the belief that clients deserve an architect who can see both the promise of an idea and the path required to make it real.
2023–Present
Residential + Commercial Practice
DIA has developed a growing body of residential, commercial, renovation, interior, and mixed-use work. Across these projects, the practice helps clients move from initial possibility and feasibility through architecture, approvals, documentation, visualization, coordination, and construction. The work is grounded in a simple ambition: to design places of beauty, warmth, identity, and lasting usefulness—buildings that serve their owners well and contribute positively to the settings in which they are built.
2024
Architecture + Education
Daniel joined Arizona State University as a Professor of Practice in Architecture and Space Architecture, bringing professional experience in buildings, technology, advanced environments, and design leadership into architectural education. Teaching is an extension of practice: an opportunity to cultivate curiosity, rigor, responsibility, and the confidence to imagine better environments for future generations.
2025
Expanded Practice + Global Clients
DIA expanded its work with private developers, public and government-related initiatives in New York, international competitions, and clients in advanced industries including Virgin Galactic. This expanding body of work reflects the firm’s broader purpose: to contribute meaningful architecture across homes, buildings, cities, specialized facilities, and environments that define emerging futures.
2025
Published Architectural Leadership
Daniel authored Space Architecture: Principles, Challenges, and Innovations, published by Wiley. The book advances architecture’s role in shaping human habitation, extreme environments, and the future of life beyond Earth, while reinforcing a principle equally important to every DIA project: architecture is the art and discipline of creating places where human possibility can thrive.
2026 + Beyond
Future Practice
Today, DIA continues to grow as a design practice focused on buildings, cities, international projects, and advanced environments. The scale and subject of the work may vary—from a carefully designed home to a mixed-use development, from an urban opportunity to a specialized future-facing facility—but the intention remains consistent: To create architecture that inspires confidence, elevates experience, strengthens value, and leaves behind places worthy of the future they help build.
Early Career
Gehry Partners + Landmark Design
Daniel contributed to major international architectural work including Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Battersea redevelopment. These experiences established an early foundation in ambitious architecture: the power of form, the cultural role of buildings, the craft of developing extraordinary ideas, and the coordinated effort required to deliver projects of lasting public significance.
New York
Global Architecture + Advanced Design
At Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York, Daniel contributed to major international high-rise, mixed-use, and urban projects. Working within a global practice reinforced the importance of architecture at the scale of the city: how buildings shape skylines, streets, workplaces, public life, and the long-term evolution of urban places. His work also extended into advanced architectural collaborations involving ESA, Lockheed, MIT, and other universities, expanding his experience at the intersection of architecture, research, engineering, and new human environments.
2023
Blue Origin + NASA Programs
As a Senior Space Architect at Blue Origin, Daniel contributed architectural expertise to government and commercial space initiatives, including NASA-related human habitation and space systems programs. This work advanced a conviction central to DIA today: architecture is fundamentally about making life possible, meaningful, safe, and inspiring within the environments we create. Whether designing on Earth or for destinations beyond it, architecture must respond to human needs, coordinate complex systems, and help turn exploration into inhabitable reality.
2023
Foundation of DIA
Daniel established Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C. in New York to create a practice capable of connecting architecture, development, technology, and future environments within one design-led vision. DIA was founded on the belief that clients deserve an architect who can see both the promise of an idea and the path required to make it real.
2023–Present
Residential + Commercial Practice
DIA has developed a growing body of residential, commercial, renovation, interior, and mixed-use work. Across these projects, the practice helps clients move from initial possibility and feasibility through architecture, approvals, documentation, visualization, coordination, and construction. The work is grounded in a simple ambition: to design places of beauty, warmth, identity, and lasting usefulness—buildings that serve their owners well and contribute positively to the settings in which they are built.
2024
Architecture + Education
Daniel joined Arizona State University as a Professor of Practice in Architecture and Space Architecture, bringing professional experience in buildings, technology, advanced environments, and design leadership into architectural education. Teaching is an extension of practice: an opportunity to cultivate curiosity, rigor, responsibility, and the confidence to imagine better environments for future generations.
2025
Expanded Practice + Global Clients
DIA expanded its work with private developers, public and government-related initiatives in New York, international competitions, and clients in advanced industries including Virgin Galactic. This expanding body of work reflects the firm’s broader purpose: to contribute meaningful architecture across homes, buildings, cities, specialized facilities, and environments that define emerging futures.
2025
Published Architectural Leadership
Daniel authored Space Architecture: Principles, Challenges, and Innovations, published by Wiley. The book advances architecture’s role in shaping human habitation, extreme environments, and the future of life beyond Earth, while reinforcing a principle equally important to every DIA project: architecture is the art and discipline of creating places where human possibility can thrive.
2026 + Beyond
Future Practice
Today, DIA continues to grow as a design practice focused on buildings, cities, international projects, and advanced environments. The scale and subject of the work may vary—from a carefully designed home to a mixed-use development, from an urban opportunity to a specialized future-facing facility—but the intention remains consistent: To create architecture that inspires confidence, elevates experience, strengthens value, and leaves behind places worthy of the future they help build.
OUR TEAM
Senior Leadership. Thoughtful Collaboration. Shared Ambition.
Senior Leadership. Thoughtful Collaboration. Shared Ambition.
DIA is led by Daniel Inocente and supported by architects, designers, project managers, technical collaborators, and strategic partners assembled around the specific needs of each project. We believe clients benefit from direct engagement, senior attention, and a design process in which ideas are carefully developed and decisions are clearly communicated. As projects grow in complexity, we bring together the appropriate expertise in engineering, sustainability, planning, code, construction, visualization, fabrication, and advanced systems. This allows DIA to remain personal and design-led while providing the depth, coordination, and capability required for substantial work. Every project deserves a team aligned around its potential.
DIA is led by Daniel Inocente and supported by architects, designers, project managers, technical collaborators, and strategic partners assembled around the specific needs of each project. We believe clients benefit from direct engagement, senior attention, and a design process in which ideas are carefully developed and decisions are clearly communicated. As projects grow in complexity, we bring together the appropriate expertise in engineering, sustainability, planning, code, construction, visualization, fabrication, and advanced systems. This allows DIA to remain personal and design-led while providing the depth, coordination, and capability required for substantial work. Every project deserves a team aligned around its potential.
Daniel Inocente is the Founder and Principal of Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C., a New York-based architecture practice working across residential, commercial, mixed-use, sustainable, industrial, and space architecture projects. His background spans architecture, advanced design, aerospace, education, and future environments. He has worked across high-level architectural practice and space architecture, bringing a rare perspective to projects that require both design vision and technical clarity. As an architect, educator, and author, Daniel approaches architecture as a discipline that shapes how people live today and how humanity prepares for the future.
DANIEL INOCENTE
Founder + Principal Architect
Daniel Inocente is the Founder and Principal of Daniel Inocente Architecture D.P.C., a New York-based architecture practice working across residential, commercial, mixed-use, sustainable, industrial, and space architecture projects. His background spans architecture, advanced design, aerospace, education, and future environments. He has worked across high-level architectural practice and space architecture, bringing a rare perspective to projects that require both design vision and technical clarity. As an architect, educator, and author, Daniel approaches architecture as a discipline that shapes how people live today and how humanity prepares for the future.
DANIEL INOCENTE
Founder + Principal Architect
Emeline Inocente supports business development, client coordination, operations, and firm growth initiatives. Her work helps strengthen the studio’s relationships, communications, and ability to connect with clients, collaborators, and project opportunities.
EMELINE INOCENTE
Business Development + Operations
Emeline Inocente supports business development, client coordination, operations, and firm growth initiatives. Her work helps strengthen the studio’s relationships, communications, and ability to connect with clients, collaborators, and project opportunities.
EMELINE INOCENTE
Business Development + Operations
Jonathan Connell brings a design and engineering perspective to the studio’s work, supporting projects that require technical thinking, systems coordination, constructability awareness, and clear design execution.
JONATHAN CONNELL
Design + Engineering
Jonathan Connell brings a design and engineering perspective to the studio’s work, supporting projects that require technical thinking, systems coordination, constructability awareness, and clear design execution.
JONATHAN CONNELL
Design + Engineering
Ting-Yu Chou-Pratt supports architectural design, drawing development, visualization, and project coordination across residential, commercial, and design-focused work. Her role helps translate early concepts into clear architectural direction.
TING-YU CHOU-PRATT
Architectural Designer
Ting-Yu Chou-Pratt supports architectural design, drawing development, visualization, and project coordination across residential, commercial, and design-focused work. Her role helps translate early concepts into clear architectural direction.
TING-YU CHOU-PRATT
Architectural Designer
Jesus Vasquez contributes to architectural design, modeling, documentation, and visual studies. His work supports the development of design concepts, project drawings, and architectural communication across multiple project types.
JESUS VASQUEZ
Architectural Designer
Jesus Vasquez contributes to architectural design, modeling, documentation, and visual studies. His work supports the development of design concepts, project drawings, and architectural communication across multiple project types.
JESUS VASQUEZ
Architectural Designer
Jesus Vasquez contributes to architectural design, modeling, documentation, and visual studies. His work supports the development of design concepts, project drawings, and architectural communication across multiple project types.
JESUS VASQUEZ
Architectural Designer
Audrey L. supports the studio through design development, visual research, presentation materials, and project studies. Her work contributes to the refinement of architectural ideas, interiors, and client-facing design communication.
AUDREY L.
Design Intern
Audrey L. supports the studio through design development, visual research, presentation materials, and project studies. Her work contributes to the refinement of architectural ideas, interiors, and client-facing design communication.
AUDREY L.
Design Intern
Dan Kennedy brings senior architectural experience to project delivery, technical coordination, documentation, consultant collaboration, and construction-phase support. His role helps guide projects from design development through approvals and implementation.
DAN K.
Senior Project Architect
Dan Kennedy brings senior architectural experience to project delivery, technical coordination, documentation, consultant collaboration, and construction-phase support. His role helps guide projects from design development through approvals and implementation.
DAN K.
Senior Project Architect
John Martin supports the firm’s architectural work through design, technical review, documentation, coordination, and project execution. His experience contributes to the clarity and quality of the studio’s built work.
JOHN M.
Architect
John Martin supports the firm’s architectural work through design, technical review, documentation, coordination, and project execution. His experience contributes to the clarity and quality of the studio’s built work.
JOHN M.
Architect
Tim Lee supports project management, scheduling, coordination, communication, and delivery. His role helps keep projects organized, aligned, and moving forward across design, documentation, approvals, and construction phases.
TIM L.
Project Manager
Tim Lee supports project management, scheduling, coordination, communication, and delivery. His role helps keep projects organized, aligned, and moving forward across design, documentation, approvals, and construction phases.
TIM L.
Project Manager
DESIGN + PROJECT COLLABORATORS
The Right People, United by a Strong Vision
The Right People, United by a Strong Vision
DIA works with a network of architects, designers, visualization specialists, planners, builders, technical consultants, and specialized collaborators according to the requirements and ambitions of each project. No two projects are identical. A private residence, an urban mixed-use building, a cultural project, and an advanced technical environment each call for distinct forms of knowledge and collaboration.
DIA works with a network of architects, designers, visualization specialists, planners, builders, technical consultants, and specialized collaborators according to the requirements and ambitions of each project. No two projects are identical. A private residence, an urban mixed-use building, a cultural project, and an advanced technical environment each call for distinct forms of knowledge and collaboration.
What unites them is a shared purpose: to create architecture of quality, intelligence, and meaning. Our collaborative model enables each project to benefit from focused design leadership while drawing upon the experience needed to make ambitious work achievable.
What unites them is a shared purpose: to create architecture of quality, intelligence, and meaning. Our collaborative model enables each project to benefit from focused design leadership while drawing upon the experience needed to make ambitious work achievable.
CONSULTANT NETWORK
Engineering, Performance, Approvals + Construction
Engineering, Performance, Approvals + Construction
The strongest buildings are created when architecture, engineering, sustainability, approvals, construction, and craft are considered together from the beginning. DIA collaborates with engineering, code, sustainability, permitting, construction, planning, and specialist partners to support projects from early strategy through built realization.
The strongest buildings are created when architecture, engineering, sustainability, approvals, construction, and craft are considered together from the beginning. DIA collaborates with engineering, code, sustainability, permitting, construction, planning, and specialist partners to support projects from early strategy through built realization.
We value consultants and builders who understand that quality is not an afterthought. It is built through communication, coordination, material intelligence, and a common commitment to doing the work well. Architecture is at its best when every contributor helps carry a strong idea forward.
We value consultants and builders who understand that quality is not an afterthought. It is built through communication, coordination, material intelligence, and a common commitment to doing the work well. Architecture is at its best when every contributor helps carry a strong idea forward.
ACHIEVEMENTS & MILESTONES
Design Excellence Recognized Coast to Coast
Design Excellence Recognized Coast to Coast
20+
Years of Experience
10+
Countries Worked In
50+
Projects Completed
5
US States – Licensed Nationwide
EXPERIENCE + CREDIBILITY
A Practice Grounded in Experience and Directed Toward the Future
A Practice Grounded in Experience and Directed Toward the Future
New York-Based Architectural Practice
Residential, commercial, mixed-use, renovation, interiors, specialized facilities, and advanced environments.
New York-Based Architectural Practice
Residential, commercial, mixed-use, renovation, interiors, specialized facilities, and advanced environments.
International Architectural Experience
Professional experience shaped through significant architectural, urban, cultural, and technical projects across multiple geographies and scales.
International Architectural Experience
Professional experience shaped through significant architectural, urban, cultural, and technical projects across multiple geographies and scales.
Advanced Design Leadership
Experience connecting architecture with aerospace, technology, human habitation, research, and future environments.
Advanced Design Leadership
Experience connecting architecture with aerospace, technology, human habitation, research, and future environments.
Academic Contribution
Professor of Practice in Architecture at Arizona State University.
Academic Contribution
Professor of Practice in Architecture at Arizona State University.
Published Expertise
Author of Space Architecture: Principles, Challenges, and Innovations, published by Wiley.
Published Expertise
Author of Space Architecture: Principles, Challenges, and Innovations, published by Wiley.
Collaborative Delivery
A flexible and experienced network of architects, engineers, consultants, builders, and strategic partners assembled around the possibilities of each project.
Collaborative Delivery
A flexible and experienced network of architects, engineers, consultants, builders, and strategic partners assembled around the possibilities of each project.
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