Our Story
McBride Architects was founded by Nate McBride in 1983. The firm maintains a close relationship with the art world, having designed New York galleries Alexander and Bonin and Galerie Lelong, a private museum in Pound Ridge, NY, and several highly acclaimed art exhibitions as well as studios for artists.
Residential work by McBride includes full renovations of apartments, townhouses, and lofts in New York City, as well as renovations, additions, and new construction for primary residences and summer homes throughout the Northeast and New England. McBride has also had the honor of designing a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Pokhara, Nepal, as well as a school and community center for the Tibetan community in Mungod, India. The firm has also executed a wide range of institutional projects, including facilities for Rockefeller University and Hunter College, offices for nonprofit organizations, and studio space for film production companies.
Nate McBride RA, AIA
Principal
Yale University
School of Architecture
Master of Architecture
Stanford University
School of Engineering
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
When Nate McBride founded McBride Architects in 1983, he had already lived many lives, from leaving his hometown in Iowa to attend boarding school on the East Coast to traveling solo for months in South America, working on a fishing boat in Ireland, and studying architecture at Stanford and Yale. He was led not necessarily by a desire for adventure but an interest in experiences, by a sense of wonder for the world and the lives of others. He wanted to learn. Nate’s abiding empathy and curiosity thread through his work at McBride Architects and inform the fairness with which he leads his team. His standards are high but not self-serving. A good outcome, he says, is when a client tells him, “This is exactly what I wanted, but I didn’t know it.”
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Rowan University
Bachelor of Arts in Photography
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Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Master of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
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Pratt Institute
School of Art & Design
Master of Fine Arts
Kenyon College
Bachelor of Arts
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Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Master of Architecture
Smith College
Bachelor of Arts
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University of Virginia
School of Architecture
Master of Architecture
University of Virginia
School of Architecture
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
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University of Cincinnati
College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning
Master of Architecture
University of Cincinnati
College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
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Rice University
School of Architecture
Master of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Architecture
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
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Yale University
School of Architecture
Master of Architecture
Boston Architectural College
Bachelor of Architecture
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College of the Holy Cross
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics
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University of Oregon
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Master of Architecture
New York University
Bachelor of Arts
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Columbia University
Master of Architecture
Wellesley College
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
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Tulane University
School of Architecture
Master of Architecture
Tulane University
School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture
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Syracuse University
School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture
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Syracuse University
School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture
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Rhode Island College
Bachelor of Science
Westminster College
Bachelor of Arts