Patrick Ahearn, architect, on L.I.F.T.E.D.

Celebrated as one of America’s top classical architects, Patrick Ahearn FAIA was raised in Levittown, New York – the first and one of the largest mass-produced affordable housing communities – and is now based in Boston for the past four decades. After receiving degrees in architecture and urban design from Syracuse University, he began his career with ambitious adaptive-reuse public projects, and for the past 25 years has focused primarily on historically motivated, site-sensitive private residences in New England. Today, he oversees a firm of 12 designers working in studios in Boston’s Back Bay and in Edgartown, on Martha’s Vineyard. He and his work have been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers and on HGTV. He has worked on over 1000 projects in Boston – 400 in Back Bay alone – and over 300 properties on Martha’s Vineyard with 160 in the Historic District.