Noa Sklar

Noa Sklar is an inventive architectural designer whose work blends rigorous material inquiry with a nimble, programmatic imagination. Trained first in the visual arts and business at Tulane University and now completing a Master of Architecture at Parsons School of Design (The New School), Noa has developed a concentrated interest in the interstices of city fabric and the material stories that give places memory and meaning. Her Parsons thesis—an exploration of the “spaces that slip between” the Manhattan grid and an argument for weaving program and structure through those overlooked voids—demonstrates her ability to pair conceptual rigor with thoughtful spatial tactics.

Professionally, Noa brings this cross-disciplinary perspective to practice as an architectural designer with Rebelo de Andrade in Portugal, where she contributes to design, detail, and research across the studio’s built and speculative projects. Her international practice experience complements academic work that foregrounds materiality and sensory memory; earlier undergraduate investigation at Tulane focused on texture, material histories, and their connections to memory—an intellectual thread Noa continues to pursue in her built-environment work.

In addition to studio practice, Noa has participated in research roles that reflect her interest in the life-cycle and health of materials. She is listed as a student research assistant with the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons’ Constructed Environments program, where her background in art, marketing, and architectural investigation supports interdisciplinary projects that interrogate material performance, sustainability, and embodied experience.