Kate Brown designs from an understanding of how people use space. Responsive to overlapping needs, she crafts user-friendly environments that provide flexibility and enhance daily life. Her grasp of complex programs, sustainable building materials, and fine detailing fuels her thoughtful design approach.
Her MBB project management experience includes a ground-up multipurpose building at Notre Dame Academy of Staten Island, the expansion of Yeshivah of Flatbush Elementary School, and the award-winning renovation of the Gordon Chapel at St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s School as a flexible assembly and performance space. She has also managed renovations at Congregation Rodeph Sholom and Trinity School Library, the design of a private residence in Long Island’s East End, and an adaptive reuse plan at Sewanee University of the South.
Kate holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College. She has served as a guest critic at Northeastern University and Boston Architectural College. Through the Architectural League of New York’s mentorship program, she has served as a mentor to undergraduate design students at City Tech, Keane University, and City College of New York. Kate joined MBB in 2017 and was promoted to Associate in 2020.
