Trey Trahan, III, FAIA
Victor F. "Trey" Trahan, III, FAIA is President and Principal-in-Charge of Trahan Architects. Mr. Trahan has been recognized and published both nationally and internationally for innovative design and creative use of materials. An accomplished designer, he is a 2010 recipient of the P/A Award, one of the most respected awards in architecture, presented by Architect Magazine to recognize progressive architectural design for unbuilt works. He also received the 2005 Architecture Review Emerging Architecture Award in London, one of three firms and the only U.S. architect honored that year. In 2007, he lectured at The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Series and was named by Wallpaper Magazine as one of the top 101 emerging practices in the world. During the spring of 2013 he conducted a graduate level design studio at MIT School of Architecture and Planning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The studio focused on designs for coastal landscape. Mr. Trahan was one of thirteen architects selected internationally to design a house for the New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward as part of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation project. He is the recipient of three National AIA Honor Awards, and has won three international design competitions in Beijing, China. He was elected to the AIA College of Fellows at the age of 45 for design. The firm’s work is intensely personal, and historically grounded. The work is rooted in place, with each project informed by the local geography, culture, history and the client’s needs.