CHELSEA, M.A.– The Architectural Team announced strategic promotions for three longstanding senior team members. The newly promoted professionals are Philip Renzi, Andrew Stebbins, LEED AP, and Anthony Vivirito, Associate AIA, LEED AP, who have all been elevated to the position of Associate at the 95-person firm.
With a steadily expanding portfolio of projects across the United States, TAT is recognized as a sophisticated and thoughtful planner and designer of multifamily, mixed-use, commercial, and assisted-living communities. The firm is also known as a national advocate for important issues including affordable housing, historic preservation and adaptive reuse, sustainability, and resilient waterfront development. According to TAT’s principals, the promotions reflect all three new Associates’ deep commitment to design expertise, client relations, and project management excellence.
Recent milestones for TAT, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021, include project commissions for skyline-defining towers such as the Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences; innovative affordable housing communities such as A.O. Flats at Forest Hills, the winner of an Urban Land Institute excellence award; significant historic adaptive reuse projects including Sibley Square, a 1.1 million-square-foot former department store now transformed into a vibrant, mixed-use urban destination in downtown Rochester, New York; and market-leading comprehensive continuum-of-care environments such as the 172-unit Atria McCandless community in Pennsylvania. TAT’s new Associates Stebbins, Vivirito, and Renzi have played instrumental roles in this growth of the firm’s portfolio, and will continue their project work alongside expanded managerial, business development, and mentorship responsibilities.
“With decades of design and management experience as well as important thought leadership positions, Andrew Stebbins, Anthony Vivirito, and Philip Renzi exemplify the range of technical skills, design knowledge, and commitment to client objectives that TAT brings to every project,” says TAT senior partner and managing principal Michael D. Binette, AIA NCARB. “We’re proud to recognize these three practitioners’ contributions to TAT’s success as well as their enthusiasm for the firm’s values, cultivation of deep client relationships, and ongoing mentorship of our co-op interns and young practitioners. Their dedication and service is essential to fulfilling TAT’s promise of being a trusted advisor, and to fostering an environment in which all of our up-and-coming professionals can themselves become leaders.”
Adding to this announcement, TAT has also released detailed information about the three new Associates:
Philip R. Renzi, Associate
Since joining TAT in 1992, Philip Renzi has played an instrumental role in the firm’s continued growth and portfolio diversification. With experience in new construction, adaptive reuse, and moderate rehabilitation across a range of sectors including multifamily, commercial, mixed-use, and senior and assisted living facilities, Renzi is responsible for over $850 million in design and built construction projects.
Highlights of Renzi’s portfolio include Trinity Financial’s Courthouse Lofts, the ambitious and high-profile conversion of a landmarked historic former courthouse complex into 118 units of mixed-income housing in Worcester, Massachusetts; and Treadmark, an 83-unit transit-oriented development also for Trinity Financial that has helped to revitalize Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Other notable recent projects include Wood Partners’ Alta Revolution, a 329-unit multifamily development in Somerville, Massachusetts; Arlington 360, a 199-unit, mixed-income multifamily community; Evergreen Village at Bloomington and Fort Wayne, both affordable senior housing communities developed by Evergreen Partners; and The Union at 48 Boylston, a joint effort by the Planning Office for Urban Affairs and St. Francis House, which preserves and rehabilitates the former Boston Young Men’s Christian Union as housing for some of the most vulnerable citizens of Boston in a gentrifying neighborhood.
A dedicated mentor to generations of young professionals at TAT, Renzi is valued by clients and colleagues alike for his ability to successfully translate complex designs and residential and amenity programs into market-leading multifamily and mixed-use products. As an expert voice on adaptive reuse, transit-oriented development, and emerging trends such as asset repositioning, urban infill, and micro mobility, Renzi is often quoted by media outlets — including Affordable Housing Finance, Archinect, and the New England Real Estate Journal — as an important source on design and urbanism issues affecting cities today.
Andrew N. Stebbins, LEED AP, Associate
A skilled manager of projects ranging from mixed-use, market-rate, and affordable housing, to senior living communities, adaptive reuse, and waterfront developments, Andrew Stebbins has earned a reputation as one of TAT’s most versatile professionals in his 25 years at the firm.
Valued for his design insights and collaborative project management approach, Stebbins’ portfolio includes multifamily housing and mixed-use work for national developers including Mill Creek Residential, Pennrose Properties, Wood Partners, Lendlease, and WinnDevelopment. Notable project work with these clients includes the Modera Brighton, Pennrose Wareham, and Alta Revolution multifamily developments, as well as Lendlease’s Clippership Wharf, a 12-acre mixed-use residential community on the East Boston waterfront featuring a living shoreline and other notable resiliency elements, and recognized as a Climate Change Project of the Year by the Environmental Business Council of New England. Stebbins’ most recent project with WinnDevelopment, Harborwalk Residences and Harbor125 Apartments, represents the final development phase of the Clippership Wharf site. It features 52 units of mixed-income housing and brings restored view corridors, walking paths, and community connection to the Boston Harbor.
Frequently quoted in the media on topics related to master planned communities, mixed-use, sea-level rise, flood mitigation, and storm resiliency, Stebbins is recognized as a valuable resource on many of the building industry’s most important and timely subjects in publications such as Metropolis magazine, WIRED, Urban Land magazine, and Multifamily Executive.
Anthony Vivirito, Associate AIA, LEED AP, Associate
Anthony Vivirito’s background includes more than 20 years of design and project management experience with a specific focus on multifamily housing, senior living communities, and comprehensive continuum of care facilities for independent, assisted, and memory care residents.
Since joining TAT in 2003, Vivirito has worked nationally with clients including LCB Senior Living, CA Ventures, Volunteers of America, and Anthemion Senior Lifestyles, spearheading some of the country’s most advanced senior living and memory care communities that have provided safe, welcoming, and engaging environments for thousands of residents. His recent portfolio includes LCB Senior Living’s The Residence at Penniman Hill, an award-winning and National Green Building Standard-certified 90-unit assisted living and memory care facility in historic Hingham, Massachusetts; The Residence at Melrose Station, an urban-situated assisted living and memory care facility in downtown Melrose, Massachusetts also for LCB Senior Living; and The Cordwainer, an innovative assisted living and memory care facility for Anthemion Senior Lifestyles offering 54 units designed to promote mindful and physical health and wellness through biophilic design features including an indoor sensory garden.
Vivirito is a valued spokesperson for the firm’s expertise and thought leadership related to senior and assisted living, and his perspective has been highlighted in a diverse array of media including Bloomberg, Healthcare Facilities Today, Environments for Aging, and McKnight’s Senior Living.
“As such valued and longstanding members of our team, these three practitioners embody our firm’s belief in the transformative power of architecture. They also exemplify TAT’s culture, which offers the freedom and flexibility for professionals to grow and work on a wide range of projects in various sectors,” concludes TAT senior partner and design principal, Michael E. Liu, AIA, NCARB. “As we continue to expand and diversify our portfolio– taking on exciting commissions ranging from boutique hotels and mixed-use developments to transit-oriented urban infill and historic conversions with contemporary additions — the talent and commitment of these leaders will enable us to succeed in delivering the innovative projects that we find most rewarding and valuable.”
