baxter projects

Our Mission

Baxter Projects, founded in 2014 by Kevin Baxter and based in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, is an award-winning modern architecture firm dedicated to building sustainable low carbon healthy structures. Whether new homes, renovations and additions, or complex multi-use structures, our combined skills in artful design and attention to detail provide us with the complimentary skills to execute meaningful projects of any scale that are aspirational as well as practical and distinctly rooted in place.

Our Projects + Clients

We work closely with our clients to visualize ambitions and illustrate challenges. Using a rigorous and iterative design process, we map out design solutions that utilize resources in the most functional and beautiful way possible. We are creative pragmatists capable of harnessing the hidden potential within the most constraining environments that lead to the most inspiring and efficient solutions.

Tell us what you'd like to do—we're here to help:

1. We want to discuss your project, your goals and your concerns.

2. We are experienced in site analysis and planning.

3. It's never too early to engage us. We excel in early stage conceptual design as well as multi-phase project management.

Kevin Baxter, Architect

Kevin Baxter is the founder and principal of Baxter Projects, an architecture practice dedicated to sustainable modernism. 

At Baxter Projects, we are building on long experience and a diverse body of knowledge to lead the evolution of modernism into a new era of environmental sustainability.

With the Sangha Farmhouse, we are using reinforced straw panels to sequester carbon and create thermally massive walls to reduce dependency on mechanical equipment while creating healthy spaces that benefit the buddhist community that will live and worship there.

With the Education Pavilion at the Wolf Conservation Center, we worked with Transsolar, one of the world leaders in environmental design, to envision a building that is embedded in the site and tempered by the environment, winning a national design award along the way.

Over a 25 year career, Kevin has worked on various residential projects that are recognized for their intergration into land and topography, their vibrant interpretations of modernism and utility, and the Passive House and carbon sequestering techniques employed to conserve energy — all while creating safe, healthy, restorative environments.

Prior to founding Baxter Projects, Kevin was a project architect at some of the world’s most prestigious firms and visionaries, including Pei/Cobb/Freed, Gaetano Pesce and Ennead Architects, where he led a team for the award-winning renovation and modernization of the Public Theater. Kevin also led the adaptive reuse of the Cincinnati Music Hall, built in 1878, into a twenty-first century multi-purpose concert hall, as well as the transformation of a landmarked 1907 townhouse in Harlem into an energy efficient community center for the City College of New York. 

Kevin has been an invited architecture critic at the City College of New York, Pratt University, New York Institute of Technology, the Art Institute of New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clemson University, and the University of Florida.

Kevin is a registered architect in New York State, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and a United States Green Building Council LEED Green Associate.