Studio Joseph

02/09/2026

Groundbreaking day for the new Canarsie Library! Thrilled to be working with Brooklyn Public Libraries to design this important resource for the Canarsie community.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween to the Princeton University Art Museum 🎃
Today marks the brand new museum’s public opening, after many years of hard work by incredible staff and visionary leadership. We’re incredibly proud to have led gallery design across nine pavilions and thousands of objects spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. A labor of love!

If you miss today’s 24-hour public opening event, make sure to make the trip soon. It’s truly a magical new home for a jaw-dropping collection. Swipe to see some of our favorite moments.

07/25/2024

07/10/2024

See the exciting new exhibition halls we worked on with the - now open! Also check out the NYT article at the link in our bio.

05/24/2023

A look back at our exhibition Hector Guimard: How Paris Got its Curves at the Cooper Hewitt as we prepare for deinstallation. The curvature of the exhibition armature and graphic design is a subtle nod to the design objects on display

Thanks to our collaborators and to , who did the graphics for this exhibition

05/20/2023

A sneak peak of This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, our new exhibition opening at MCNY May 26, 2023!

We loved working with our collaborators at and to celebrate the museum’s centennial

05/17/2023

Celebrating the opening of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum Auditorium!

Our design features illuminated white panels that create playful light ribs along the walls and ceiling inspired by the joyful spirit of this dynamic museum. Come experience the full range of programs, films, and lectures BCM has to offer.

Thank you to our collaborators at

10/24/2022

Beautiful day (with some friends!) at our installation

10/17/2022

Very excited that our project at is now open!

10/17/2022

Thrilled to be a part of this discussion tomorrow at !

06/19/2017

Studio Joseph mourns the death of our friend, collaborator and inspiration Hilary Ballon. Hilary curated our first exhibition installation, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Vertical Dimension at the Skyscraper Museum (2005). That fulfilling experience led to my changing the direction of the studio towards design for learning, making public education a central component of our work.

With Hilary’s guidance, we developed ideas for physical design that would enhance content and prompt engagement with history. Hilary, a historian, not curator by profession, engaged with us in continuous discussion as part of a search to translate her research into visceral experience. She asked, if artifacts mute or can speak for themselves and questioned what is the best way to make a label that will illuminate a hidden story. Each object displayed was subject to what she called “radical selection”. To stay in the installation, any display had to tell an essential part of the story with clarity and poignancy.

Together we created “The Greatest Grid: New York City Master Plan 1812-2012” at the Museum of the City of New York. Hilary’s tutorials for our studio concerning importance of city planning in the development of urban culture tied together economic, political issues, with technology and social history. This led an immersive and all-encompassing physical design that mirrored her comprehensive exploration.

Ultimately, it was the four-year effort to bring to life the history of New York City from 1609 through to the present including the factors that describe a path forward into the future that was our strongest collaboration. Despite her advancing illness, Hilary challenged the design team with her laser sharp intellect questioning each of our concepts for authenticity and impact. As we tested new ideas for combining media and analogue interactions, Hilary mastered the technology and again pushed us to higher levels. She asked that conceptual ideas and details embody the same rigorous consideration that she brought to the scholarship.

It is with great sadness that I write this brief description of our shared work experiences. Our personal friendship for over 30 years, included much more than work, as we shared our family lives, passion for combing obscure areas of Met to see artwork and endless conversations about architecture’s ability to change people lives and the course of history. I’ll miss her terribly.

Studio Joseph is proud to continue our work in education in her memory.

Wendy Evans Joseph
For Studio Joseph

04/11/2017

The results are out! New York at Its Core has won the popular vote in the Architizer A+ awards in the Architecture + Learning Category! The biggest thank you to our voters and collaborators!!!