H3 and Arquitectonica
A boutique cultural-architecture practice operating with the resources of a five-hundred-person global firm — and the new kinds of cultural commissions that combination is uniquely structured to serve.
H3 became the Theater, Arts and Cultural Building Design Studio of Arquitectonica International Corporation in 2017. Today’s most consequential cultural work — large performing arts centers, cultural districts operating at international scale, and the new generation of active cultural facilities in mixed-use developments — increasingly drives economic activity, visitor engagement, and civic identity for the cities that invest in it. The combination of H3 and Arquitectonica is structured to serve work at that scale and ambition.
The arrangement is complementary. H3 brings decades of specialization in theaters, performing arts centers, libraries, museums, civic buildings, and academic arts facilities including signature New York landmarks at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Theatre for a New Audience, and the Radio City Music Hall, New Amsterdam Theatre, and New Victory Theater restorations. Arquitectonica brings global reach across eleven offices on five continents, the operational infrastructure to deliver projects of any scale or complexity, and the design leadership of Founding Principal Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA.
For clients commissioning cultural buildings, this means H3 work remains principal-led — three partners whose careers have been spent in cultural and theater architecture — while drawing on resources, delivery infrastructure, and global reach that few specialist practices can offer.
Together with ArquitectonicaGEO, ArquitectonicaSTUDIO, Arquitectonica Interiors, and Arquitectonica Products, H3 is one of five studios in the Arquitectonica family — each focused on a distinct discipline, all working from a shared commitment to design that responds to its place and serves its community.
The Arquitectonica family of studios
— Theater, arts & cultural buildings
Selected H3 and Arquitectonica Collaborations
