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We Believe in Architectural Creativity

Lightroom Studio, LLC is an innovative architectural firm based in Decatur, Georgia, renowned for pushing the boundaries of art and design. Our multidisciplinary team of architects, designers, and creative professionals fosters a collaborative environment where diverse talents converge to create exceptional design solutions.

At Lightroom Studio, we believe that creativity is limitless. Our firm is a vibrant mix of architects and Fellows—designers with unique backgrounds in fields such as filmmaking, fashion design, and more. This diversity enriches our approach to architecture and fuels our innovative projects. Our Fellows, who range from emerging architects to seasoned artists, contribute their artistic insights and collaborate with us to enhance our architectural practice. Each project is an opportunity for cross-disciplinary growth and exploration.

Awards

Awards

Publications

La Biennale di Venezia 2025, Venice, Italy

Lightroom was one of the only American architecture firms invited to at Palazzo Mora exhibition in collaboration with the Carter+Burton Studio.

Atlanta Magazine: Georgia Design Awards

Bronze Prize: Vacation Home

 

AIA Atlanta Merit Award; 23 Perry

AIA Georgia 2023 Honor Award; 23 Perry

AIA Georgia 2023 Merit Award; 23 Perry

AIA Georgia 2023 Merit Award; Hartwell Cabin

AIA Georgia 2023 Merit Award; Victory Sandwich

 

La Biennale di Venezia 2021, Venice, Italy

AIA Georgia Bronze Medal: for the AIA High School Design competition and its lasting contributions to the education of future architects in Georgia.

 

AIA Atlanta Design Award; Heritage House; Atlanta, Georgia

 

La Biennale di Venezia 2016, Venice, Italy

Lightroom was one of the only American architecture firms invited to at Palazzo Mora exhibition in collaboration with the internationally recognized new media artist Bojana Ginn.

City of Decatur Design Award of Excellence; Paty Modern

AIA Georgia 2016 Merit Award; Paty Modern

AIA Atlanta Honor Award; Paty Modern

February 2016 Dwell Magazine Feature Story, Lightroom Studio, Decatur, GA 2015            

AIA Atlanta Best in Show Honor Award; Hartwell Cabin

 

AIA Georgia Honor Award; Lightroom 2.0

 

Featured in Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles Magazine; Leila House; Decatur, GA

Modern Atlanta Selection Leila House; Decatur, GA

AIA Georgia Design Award Leila House; Decatur, GA

Official Selection; Guest Artist; Piedmont Park Art Festival Poster

AIA South Carolina, Presidential Citation, Charleston, South Carolina, (for outstanding leadership)

 

AIA Georgia Design Award; Dominey Pavilion

 

AIA National Small Projects Award; Dominey Pavilion

National award given by the American Institute of Architects for the exceptional design of a small project. This award strives to raise public awareness of the value of design excellence that architects bring to all project types, no matter the limits of size and budget.

Custom Home Magazine Design Awards: Design Award; Dominey Pavilion

 

Print Magazine Design Excellence Award, Graphic Lightroom Christmas Card Design

AIA South Atlantic Region Design Award Special Commendation Lightroom (1.0) Studio

International Best Picture (in Collaboration with Shadowlight Pictures) titled: “Moved” 48 Hour Film Festival; Atlanta, Ga./ Helsinki, Finland (selected from over 3,200 entries)

Print Magazine Design Excellence Award; Lightroom; The Food Loop

Decatur Arts Festival Poster: Lightroom

AIA South Atlantic Region Award of Excellence

-The Reynoldstown Gateway Park (KSU)

Mayors Award of Excellence Urban Design Commission City of Atlanta: Reynoldstown Gateway Park

AIA Georgia Bronze Medal

AIA Georgia Design Excellence Award Reynoldstown Memorial Garden (KSU)

 

AIA Georgia Design Award of Merit Reynoldstown Theater project (KSU)

AIA Georgia Design Award; The Cypress Cube

Associates Young Architects Award of Excellence: Northern Virginia AIA

Carpenter, William, Arief Setiawan, and Christopher Welty, editors. Digital Fabrication and the Design-Build Studio. 1st ed., Routledge, 2018.

Melas, A., Lara Hernandez, A., Carpenter, W., The Resilient City, La Biennale di Venezia;Italian Pavilion, Exhibition Catalogue, ISBN and printing pending.

Carpenter, W, Frampton, K, (chapter one), Melis, A, The Design Build Studio, Routledge, ISBN and book proposal pending

Melis, A., Lara, A, Di Raimo, A., Carpenter, W., Lehmann, S, Informality and Temporary Appropriation in Urbanism, Routledge, ISBN pending; book proposal approved.

 

Waldrep, L., Carpenter, W., Becoming an Architect, Chapter 3, pp 22-24, John Wiley and Sons

De Jongh, K., Carpenter, W., Ginn, B., Time Space Existence, Made in Europe, La Biennale di Venezia at Palazzo Mora, Global Arts Affairs Foundation, ISBN 978-94-90784-15-7

 

Carpenter, W., Lightroom: Recent Works, Lightroom Press, ISBN 5-600059-581520

 

Carpenter, W, Frampton, K, (chapter one), Design Build Studio (DBS), Lightroom Press, ISBN 978-0-557-86418-8; print and e-book Carpenter, W, Multi-Disciplinary Practice, Lightroom Press, 2011 (with Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Michael Graves, Ben van Berkel, UNSTUDIOl, and SAGMEISTER) ISBN 978-0657-86418-8, print and e-book

Carpenter, W., Modern Sustainable Residential Design, A Guide for Design Professionals, New York, John Wiley and Sons (This book recognized the importance of the convergence of the sustainability movement and Modern Residential Design movement and has been widely cited in other publications globally)[B1] 

 

Carpenter, W., The American Institute of Architects, The Architects Guide to Design Build Services, John Wiley and Sons; (William Carpenter wrote Chapter 14), print.

 

Carpenter, W., Learning by Building; Design and Construction in Architectural Education, New York, Van Nostrand and Reinhold, ISBN 978-0471-287933, print (Note: The first book published about the Design Build movement which has been cited in many other scholarly publications and influenced many new academic Design Build Studios globally)

 

 

Carpenter, W., The Evolution of the Full-Scale Artifact in Architectural Academia, sole author, Freya Schlemmer editor, Proceedings:  103rd ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center, Editors Mabel Wilson and John Stuart, March 2008 (peer reviewed; 43 percent acceptance) ISBN 978-0-935502-4

 

Carpenter, W., Digital Fabrication in Design Build Studios, sole author, Proceedings:  102nd ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Globalizing Architecture/ Flows and Disruptions, Editors Mabel Wilson and John Stuart, March 2012 (peer reviewed; 47 percent acceptance)

ISBN 978-0-935502-86-2

 

Halstead Nussloch, R., Carpenter, W., Teaching and Learning Design: Commonalityand Diversity in Ergonomics, HCI and Architecture in Design Education, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergononomics Society Annual Meeting

 

Carpenter, W., Fausett, J., McKay, J., The Reynoldstown Theater Project: Wheelbarrow Theater, Atlanta, Georgia, sole author, Proceedings:  86th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Constructing Identity, Editors Craig Barton, (peer reviewed; 53 percent acceptance)

ISBN 978-0-935502-86-2

https://www.acsa-arch.org/proceedings/Annual%20Meeting%20Proceedings/ACSA.AM.86/ACSA.AM.86.37.pdf

 

Carpenter, W, Materials, Ideas and Community, The Reynoldstown Theater Project, sole author, Proceedings:  85th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Architecture: Material and Imagined, Editors Lawrence Speck, (peer reviewed; 37 percent acceptance)

 

Carpenter, W, Construct, sole author, Proceedings:   ACSA International Conference Proceedings, Architecture: Lisbon, Portugal, Editor: John Edwards, (peer reviewed)

 

Journal/ Magazine Articles about William Carpenter

Abney, K., “Modern History”, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, pp 96-102; Editor: Clinton Smith (June)

 

Carpenter, W., Weiner, F., “Tektonikn V Architektonicken Vzdelavani”, ERA Czechoslovakia, pp 48-52; Editor: Frank Weiner (January)

Isenburg, A., “Building the ValuJet Crash Memorial”, CRIT Magazine; The journal of the American Institute of Architecture Students, pp 7; (January)

Hoxsey, R., “The Food Loop: Digital Design Annual, Print Magazine, pp 75; (June)

 

Hoxsey, R., “Christmas Card: Regional Design Awards”, Print Magazine, pp 75; Editor: Clinton Smith (December)

 

Laughinghouse, A., “Chasing Amy”, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, pp 114-119; (June)

Carpenter, W., Paper, H., “Split Personality”, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, pp 16; Editor: Clinton Smith (February)

Carpenter, W., Paper, H., “The Modern Issue”, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, pp 102-109; Editor: Clinton Smith (February)

 

Tigerman, S., “Lightroom”, Georgia Architect Magazine, pp 15; (February)

Carpenter, W., “Modernisms New Voices”, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, pp 130-131; Editor: Clinton Smith (February)

Carpenter, W., “Memoirs of Bridgehampton”, Georgia Architect Magazine, pp 36-38; (February)

 

Clavell, A., Carpenter, W., “Retro Fit”, Southern Living: secrets to great kitchens, pp 46-47; (November)

 

Carpenter, W., McCall, H., “Urban Sculptures Rise”, The Reynolds town Project, Southern Living Magazine, Pp 50-54 (October)

Carpenter, W., Stewart, S., “Hands on Philosophy”, Southern Living Magazine; Kitchen Makeovers, Pp 106-110 (October)

Ochran, R., “Modern Love”, Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, pp 116-123; Editor: Clinton Smith (July)

 

Ward, T.,., “Cottage Industry”, Atlanta Magazine Homes, pp 136;  (November)

 

Fox, C.,., “Garden Project Worked Students Hands, Hearts”, Cover Story; Living Section, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Pp 1 (April)

Carpenter, W., Kreyling, K., “Living in Color”, Nashville Magazine--SITE, Pp 24-27 (October)

 

Selected Digital References about Lightroom Studio

 

Dyer, C.; Great Escapes: The Dominey Pavilion; HGTV home (www.hgtv.com)

Sun, F.; A Home Studio and Gallery support a growing art scene in Georgia;

Dwell Magazine; December (www.dwell.com) print and digital       

Johns, D.; Atlanta Artist and Architect exhibit work at the Venice Biennale; January

 

Kahn, M; Noted Architect shares thoughts on Modern Design in Atlanta; Curbed Magazine; Atlanta

Harclerode, M.; Carpenter has Designs on Atlanta; Atlanta Business Chronicle

Deleo, E.; The Soul of Modern Architecture; Modern Atlanta; May

Deleo, E.; The Tiny House Re-imagined; May

Aiken, M.: Maverick Entrepeneaur: Lightroom; Paperglass Media (January)

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