Eric Liftin

Eric Liftin founded MESH Architectures in 1997 as a versatile architectural firm dedicated to innovation and sustainability, and in particular integrating digital technologies and new materials to create inventive architectural experiences. MESH’s diverse portfolio includes multi-family buildings, houses, art exhibitions, web sites, offices, restaurants, schools, office buildings, and many residential interiors.

Regardless of category, Eric approaches a project from a human experience perspective, integrating structure, materials, lighting design, and high performance to carefully craft spaces that are beautiful and highly functional. MESH has a long history of sustainable design practices from an early commitment to LED lighting to passive house strategies.

Recently MESH has pioneered mass timber construction in NYC with the construction of Timber House, New York’s first mass timber condominium, which won Architizer’s Best Sustainable Multifamily Building. This was the second of two projects co-developed with The Brooklyn Home Company. These two buildings integrate design-forward architecture with low energy use, specifically tailored to modern, urban family living.

MESH is currently designing a compound of nine mass timber, zero-net-energy houses in upstate New York. MESH projects have been published in dozens of journals, and the firm has won a number of awards. Eric has taught sustainability and design at Columbia’s GSAPP and hybrid spaces at NYU’s ITP. Eric is a certified passive house consultant and LEED AP and received an M.Arch degree from Columbia University and a BA in Literature from Yale University.