About Us

As a licensed architect in the state of New York, Taylor Knoche has contributed to a number of notable projects in the Northeast region. Projects of note include; the recently completed David Geffen Hall, Home of the NY Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center and the Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.

Currently, in her role as Project Manager at Sterling Project Development (SPD), Taylor supports a number of non-for-profit organizations and clients in building out budgets, schedules, navigating city mandates and policies, finding grant funding sources, and implementing capital improvements. Since joining SPD, Taylor is a charter member on the recently developed SPD for GOOD Committee, in which leaders from the advisory and project management groups come together to discuss key initiatives and goals around building a more sustainable and equitable future within the real estate sector.

TAYLOR KNOCHE

Founder, Designer, Dreamer, Optimist

TAYLOR KNOCHE

Taylor attended the University of Illinois in 2009 to 2013, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies. She was a James Scholar, a member of the Gargoyle Architecture Honor Society, and gradate with honors. She was awarded the I4I Scholarship to support her study junior year abroad experience at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles. During her time at UIUC, Taylor worked for the McLean County History Musuem in the summer of 2011, developing a QR Code tour of historically and architecturally significant buildings in Downtown Bloomington. In the summer following her study abroad and through the following August (2013), Taylor interned with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Facilities & Services in the Capital Planning group.

Upon graduation, Taylor accepted admission to the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design (formally known as PennDesign). Her focus during this time of study was historic preservation, ecological architecture and energy policy. During summers, Taylor assisted Franca Trubiano, Associate Chair of the Architecture Department at Weitzman, with T.C. Chan Center funded research and FRES BIM strategy implementation. In the summer leading up to her final year of graduate studies, Taylor accepted an architectural internship at Stantec Architecture in Phildelphia, assisting with large scale health care capital planning and expansion projects.

Shortly thereafter, Taylor accepted a position with the globally recognized firm, Foster + Partners (F+P). With F+P, Taylor worked on the Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, a roughly 1.5 million SF, 17-story facility with 504 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms. The project was and is one of the largest integrated project delivery (IPD) delivered successfully. Transitioning from Philadelphia to the New York office, Taylor worked on a number of other projects including a higher education classroom and labatory building along with commercial fit-out projects.

In the beginning of 2019, just before COVID, Taylor joined Toronto based Diamond Schmitt Architects as a Team Lead. There she organized and implemented the coordination of the MEP, AV/IT and structural systems through the design development and construction documentation phases. She was a primary point of contact during the construction administration phase and was a resource for the contractor to make timely and cost-effective decisions, under a compressed construction schedule. The project was delivered on-time and on budget, bring the NY Philharmonic back home to a highly performative and immersive experience for visitors and patrons to the hall to enjoy.

Currently, Taylor is a Project Manager for the Civic and Cultural Division at Sterling Project Development (SPD). She also serves as the President for the Penn Weitzman Alumni Association, Vice President of the Metro NYC Illini Club, and an active member in AIA committees most notably Cultural Facilities and Urban Planning.