Susan G. Doban, AIA CEO Doban Architecture/Think Fabricate

Susan has twenty-five years of experience in the design and management of architectural and planning projects, including numerous educational, commercial, residential, and economic development projects in the region. In 1996 she founded Susan Doban Architect, PC, now known as Doban Architecture; and in 2009 co-founded a multidisciplinary design studio, Think Fabricate, LLC.
For the Fairway Project at Red Hook, winner of the Municipal Art Society’s Masterwork Award for Economic Catalyst and a US EPA award for energy efficiency, she designed the site plan and residential interiors. Both the Red Hook project and her design for the offices of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce were honored with a Building Brooklyn Award. She is currently working on two residential/hospitality projects in Brooklyn and has designed numerous renovations to Brooklyn brownstones, including a recent “green” renovation. Ms. Doban has also worked with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and the Department of Parks and Recreation on the Sheepshead Bay Esplanade at Emmons Avenue.
During the past five years, she has directed design and construction of more than ten projects on New Rochelle’s Main Street including several for Monroe College. These range from the adaptive re-use of a commercial building into a classroom/administrative building, a new six-story dormitory completed in 2004, several interior renovation projects, and a state-of-the-art Culinary Arts Center which was recognized by McGraw-Hill NY Construction with a “Best of 2007” award and an Excellence in Interior Design award by American School and University magazine. Her design for a new mixed-use building is scheduled to begin construction on the college’s campus this spring, and will include dormitory rooms, the campus cafeteria, and classrooms.
Susan’s work for the New Rochelle Business Improvement District and Community Preservation Corporation has included creation of the Façade Improvement Program Guidelines for several blocks on upper Main Street as well as design of the New Rochelle Model Block façade improvement project which transformed the deteriorated facades of five historical buildings, which received a Preservation League of New York State 2008 Excellence in Historic Preservation award. The façade improvement program has become a model of community partnership in fostering economic development through historic preservation and restoration and is now being replicated in other New York state municipalities, including Sleepy Hollow and the Village of Port Chester.
Under her direction, the firm has also completed more than 60 capital improvement projects for the New York City School Construction Authority, located mostly in Brooklyn and Staten Island, ranging from interior renovations to façade, window, and roof upgrades, to programmatic enhancements that support the Department of Education’s programmatic goals to multi-million dollar exterior modernization projects.
Susan established her Brooklyn-based firm in 1996. She was previously an associate at the Manhattan firm of Fox & Fowle Architects. She received her M.Arch degree from Columbia University in 1985 where she received a Kinne Travelling Fellowship for study of American Urban Waterfronts. She received her AB from Harvard University cum laude in English and American Literature in 1980. She is vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, where she previously chaired the Small Business Seminar and Membership Committees. She chaired the judging panel for the 2009 Building Brooklyn Awards. She looks forward to participating in the 2010 Brooklyn Designs. She was previously a volunteer garden guide at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Susan currently co-chairs the Building Committee of Congregation Beth Elohim.

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