Grant F. Marani, Partner Emeritus, AIA, LFRAIA

Partner Emeritus Grant Marani joined Robert A.M. Stern Architects in 1984. For the last four decades, his responsibilities have encompassed the design and management of a broad range of projects, from institutional buildings to mixed-use and residential developments, to resort hotels and golf clubhouses, and private residences. Grant’s portfolio of work spans across the United States and throughout the world, with projects in Canada, China, Liberia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, Türkiye, the U.A.E, and Australia. Grant is also a co-author of the monographs Designs for Living: Houses by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (2015) and Houses: Robert A.M. Stern Architects (2021).

Grant earns his clients’ trust by listening to their needs, understanding their aspirations, and, in turn, providing appropriate design solutions; importantly, he practices a people-centered, place-based approach. That process is embodied in and across a diverse portfolio of civic, cultural, hospitality, academic, and residential buildings worldwide. His range of projects includes multiple federal courthouses; the Immanuel Chapel at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia; a weekend retreat in Sonoma Valley, California; an affordable housing complex developed by Breaking Ground, New York’s largest supportive housing provider; and work for Habitat for Humanity. His current projects include residential communities in Hong Kong, Türkiye, and Mainland China.

A seasoned traveler, Grant values and finds delight in diverse architectural settings, and shares his extensive knowledge in international forums. He has served on professional committees for the Australian Institute of Architects, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and the American Academy in China, and is currently a board member of the Design Trust for Public Space. Grant has presented his work to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and the Urban Land Institute, among other associations.

He has also been active in academia as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Design at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for over a decade, and as a guest critic at the Pratt Institute, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Yale School of Architecture.