SARAH WALSH, AIA, LEED AP
HOSPITALITY
HIGH-END RESIDENTIAL
ARTS + CULTURE
Sarah Walsh is a licensed architect based in New York. She graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Écoles d’Art Américanes de Fontainebleau in France. After studying and working ten years in New York under multi-disciplinary artist and lighting designer Joel Fitzpatrick and architect and furniture designer Chandler Pierce, she relocated to Washington, DC. Her DC career started at Gensler, earning architecture and interiors hospitality experience both internationally as well as developing the local DC restaurant scene. Moving to Marriott International’s Global Design Luxury Team, she is Director of Design Management and focuses on EDITION and W Hotels. After almost a decade in DC, she relocated back home to NY.
The quiet time of 2020 gave her the space to begin painting and is building her studio locally.
PRESS
Founder and Chair of Marriott International Design Excellence Awards (MIDEA), Spring 2022 (US+C), Spring 2023 (US+C), Fall 2024 (Global).
Speaker at BDNY x ICEX Interiors from Spain Panel, Fall 2024
Speaker at Hospitality Design Magazine x NEWH Owners Roundtable, Summer 2024.
Speaker at NEWH BrandED: EDITION, at the West Hollywood EDITION, Fall 2023.
Speaker at WRLDCTY 2022: The Global Forum for Urban Innovation on the panel “Rise of the Central Social District”.
Recipient of Boutique Design’s 2021 Class of Boutique 18, published in the Fall 2021 Issue.
IDEA_(UTOPSY) Thesis publication, 2012
Design work published in Ubiquitous Magazine, 2009
Winner of Forum For Urban Design’s Red Hook NY Master Plan Design Competition, 2008