Co-Founder / Design Director
Karla Rothstein is an architect and an educator, practicing in these intertwined disciplines for over two decades. Through LATENT, where Rothstein is Design Director, she and Sal Perry are employing the lever community redevelopment to re-constitute the nature and potential of architectural practice. In 1992, she founded the multidisciplinary architecture practice of SR+T with Joel Towers. From 1993 to 1996 she was a member of the design faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since 1997 Rothstein has taught both core and advanced design studios in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, where she is an Associate Professor. Her areas of research span the intimate spaces of urban domestic life, death and memory, to intersections of social justice and the built environment.
Rothstein was a Jacob Javits Fellow in Fine Arts from 1988–1992, a William Kinne Traveling Fellow in 1992, and a NYFA recipient in 2000. Her almae matres include the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Columbia University’s GSAPP, the Moscow Institute of Architecture, and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland. She is a registered architect in Berlin, Germany.
Karla Rothstein
Co-Founder / Design Director
Sal Perry is an architect and builder. He has over 25 years of experience in the design and construction industries, working directly in virtually every trade involved in realizing mid-rise buildings.
In 1999, LATENT was launched to leverage the potential of architecture to catalyze projects of increased integrity and longevity. Perry has lead the successful development of multifamily and commercial development projects, including new construction, adaptive re-use, and gut rehabilitation. He has navigated the municipal web of required approvals and formed a unique ability to cross boundaries of expertise to collaborate with professionals and builders of any discipline.
He holds a professional degree of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Sal Perry
ABOUT
Latent is a firm, a workshop, a consultant, a professor, and an incubator. We prioritize work that has meaning for communities and positive impact on regional ecologies.
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Collaborators
LATENT views the design of habitable space as an iterative collaborative process. We are grateful for the many contributions toward the body of our work.
Andrew Barber
Joe Boucher
Laura Buck
Nathan Carter
Ahm Chandawanich
Katherine Chang
Angel Cordero
Adam Dayem
Sean Dawson
Ashley Exparza
Luca Farinelli
Ildar Istarki
Kooho Jung
Ho Kyung Lee
Carla Leitao
Hajeong Lim
Diana Martinez
McCann HS
Michaela Metcalfe
Fatma Mhmood
Johanna Muzbeck
Tung Nguyen
Galen Pardee
JiYoung Park
Muchan Park
Jennifer Preston
Bridget Rice
Micha Roufa
Nate Samson
Claire Seizovic
Eunjeong Seong
Brett Snyder
Bob St.Piere
Joel Towers
Brendan Vogt
Christopher Whitelaw
