Aanda Architects Selected as the 2025 PEA Prize Award Recipient

Congratulations to Aanda Architects on being selected as the 2025 PEA Prize Award Recipient!

The annual Philadelphia Emerging Architect Prize recognizes a Philadelphia firm that has been established and licensed within the past ten years for its high-quality design and innovative thought. 

Aanda Architects

Aanda Architects is an award-winning, women-owned architecture, design, and planning practice based in Philadelphia, PA and Brooklyn, NY. We are architects, thinkers, listeners, agitators, educators, advocates, problem solvers, and project stewards, and we collaborate with our clients to design and construct distinctive spaces for civic, community, and family life. 

We partner with mission-driven organizations, institutions, communities, and families to shape spaces that align culture, purpose, and place. Our architecture is transformational not through spectacle but through careful stewardship of resources—balancing ambition with pragmatism to amplify impact. 

We work across scales, from the 62-branch Brooklyn Public Library to a 20,000 square foot Student Center in Providence, RI to an intimate rowhouse in Rittenhouse. We approach each project as a unique collaboration with our clients, and pride ourselves on our hands-on, engaged project stewardship, from concept through implementation.  

We are honored to receive the 2025 PEA Prize. Our practice has also been honored with the 2025 AIA New York New Practices Award, the 2025 Architect’s Newspaper Best in Practice award for Best New Firm, and a 2024 AIANYS design award. Our work has been published in the New York Times, Architectural Record, Wallpaper, Dwell, and The New Yorker.