POVERO
| JEFFERY POVERO |
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| Jeffery Povero is the principal of Povero & Company, the architecture firm he founded in the summer of 2007. Povero & Company specializes in residential, commercial, academic and institutional architecture, design and master planning. In June 1995, Povero earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas and then attended Yale University, graduating in 1997 with a Master of Architecture. In 1997, he joined Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), quickly distinguishing himself as an award winning architect and designer. From 1997 to 2007, Povero designed and oversaw major projects for RAMSA including the main public libraries in Nashville, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida, the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at UNLV in Las Vegas, Joan and Sanford Weill Hall at the University of Michigan and The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among residential projects, he designed nine townhouses in central Greenwich, Connecticut and the master plan for a residential community at Tuxedo, New York. Povero & Company's work has been published in Metropolitan Home (March 2008) and Interior Design (April 2008), while Povero’s work for RAMSA has been seen in Architectural Digest, Architecture, and Architectural Record. In 2004 Povero’s design for the John L. Vogelstein ’52 Dormitory at the Taft School won the prestigious Palladio Award for excellence in traditional architecture. For the past three years, Povero has served for as the Chairman of the Bailey House Auction, raising more than $2.3 million for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. |