Lisa LaCharité is a designer based in Sag Harbor, NY.

In Lisa’s twelve years of professional experience, she has acted as designer and project manager for a range of residential, institutional, installation, and graphic design projects.

Bates Masi Architects

Lisa was a designer at Bates Masi Architects from 2023-2024 and was the lead designer and project manager for an 8,500 square foot residential project in Amagansett, NY.

West Work

Lisa was an Associate at West Work from 2020-2023 and was the lead designer and project manager for a 600 square foot art studio in the Springs neighborhood of East Hampton, NY completed in March 2021. She was the designer for a renovation study for Haverhill Public Library in Massachusetts. Lisa and Katie Faulkner teamed with Placetailor to lead a study to uncover affordable, practical solutions for all-electric retrofits that can meet Massachusetts' 2050 net zero emissions goal resulting in the Fort Hill DER, awarded Runner-Up in the MASSCEC Triple Decker Challenge competition. Lisa worked on a multi-family passive house project in Boston, MA and renovations to the University of Massachusetts Boston Clark Athletic Center.

NADAAA

At NADAAA, Lisa was a designer for the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library system. She led the 2017 Rhode Island School of Design’s Freshman Quad Master Plan Study with Nader Tehrani, Katie Faulkner, and Arthur Chang which resulted in the design for North Hall. She was a designer and a project manager for Villa Varoise, an award winning 6,000 square foot private residence in Ramatuelle, France. During the design and construction documentation phases of the project, she worked closely with the clients and consultants and helped lead the design in landscape, mechanical, and structural systems, and interior design. She also managed the interior design and FF&E for the Rock Creek House in Washington, DC, and assisted in its construction administration.

At the beginning of her career at NADAAA, Lisa was both a director of graphics and an architectural designer. She led the effort to create NADAAA’s graphic identity beginning in February 2011 and was in charge of NADAAA’s website, blog, in-house photography, and branding. Lisa continues to be involved in the management of NADAAA’s internal and external gallery exhibits, including the drawing created for the recent Tempietto Exemplum exhibit at the Yale School of Architecture, The Tectonic Grain exhibit at Georgia Tech, and Manifest Pedagogies at the University of Miami School of Architecture.

Studio Luz

Lisa took a one-year hiatus from NADAAA to join the team at Studio Luz in 2015. During her time there, she managed several residential projects including the Cotswald Residence and the renovation of the Acorns House at Wellesley College, a low budget renovation for Asian, Latina, and LGBTQ advising.

Selected projects:

Designer, Adams Street Branch Boston Public Library, FF&E, Dorchester, MA, 2020, NADAAA

Designer and Project Manager, Villa Varoise, private residence, Ramatuelle, France, 2019, NADAAA

Designer and Project Manager, The Engine, renovated lab and office space, Cambridge, MA, 2019, NADAAA

Designer, Rhode Island School of Design Freshman Quad Study, institutional planning & design, Providence, RI, 2017, NADAAA

Designer and Project Manager, Office of Intercultural Education/ Acorns House at Wellesley College, adaptive reuse, Wellesley, MA, 2016, Studio Luz

Designer and Project Manager, Chestnut Street Flat, private residence, Boston, MA, 2016, Studio Luz

Designer and Project Manager, Cotswold Residence, private residence, Brookline, MA, 2016, Studio Luz

Designer, Beaver Country Day School, R+D Center and renovation, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2015, NADAAA

Designer and Manager of Interior Design, Rock Creek House, private residence, Washington, DC, 2014, NADAAA

Designer, New Hampshire House, private residence, Bethlehem, NH, 2014, NADAAA

Designer, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, 2017, NADAAA

Designer, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, 2014, NADAAA

Designer and Project Manager, Manifest Pedagogies, exhibition at the University of Miami School of Architecture, Miami, FL, 2019, NADAAA

Designer, Building Discourse, faculty-curated exhibition at MIT School of Architecture + Planning, Cambridge, MA, 2015, NADAAA

Designer and Project Manager, Makers in the Making, exhibition at the NADAAA Gallery, Boston, MA, 2013, NADAAA

Designer & Project Manager, Mocked Up: In Footnotes, exhibition at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Toronto, ON, 2011, NADAAA

Education

Master of Architecture, 2009. University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.

Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2006. University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.

Teaching Experience

In 2021, Lisa led a Design Studio as a critic in Experimental + Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. In Washington, DC, Lisa was an adjunct instructor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2009 and 2010 (now called Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University). In this role, she revised the intermediate and advanced digital graphics courses for interior design and exhibit design graduate students. In addition to her formal role as an instructor, Lisa served as a guest reviewer at many design schools, including MIT, RISD, Roger Williams, the Boston Architectural College, the University of Maryland, and Catholic University.

Design Critic, Experimental and Foundation Studies, 2021, Rhode Island School of Design

Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Interior and Exhibition Design programs, 2009-2010, Corcoran College of Art + Design

Directed Studies Advisor for Master of Interior Design program 2009-2010, Corcoran College of Art + Design

Coordinating Design Critic, Young Scholars Discovering Architecture. Summers of 2008 and 2009, University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation