Robin Elmslie Osler Joins FXCollaborative as Interiors Studio Director

FXCollaborative has announced that Robin Elmslie Osler, AIA, LEED AP, has joined the firm as Interiors Studio Director. Robin is responsible for the overall management of the interiors studio, including operations, staffing, business development, and the design and technical quality of all of the firm’s interiors projects. Her expertise spans workplace, retail, institutional, and residential as well as showrooms, galleries, and event venues.

“Robin is an award-winning and widely-published architect with a diverse range of project experience, and a strong management capability,” said Guy Geier, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP, Managing Partner and leader of the firm’s Corporate and Interior Design practice. “As our interiors practice continues to grow, we are thrilled that she has joined the studio’s leadership team, which also includes Angie Lee, AIA, IIDA, Partner, Design Director of Interiors, and David Aboyoun, Technical Director.”

“I’m elated to join FXCollaborative, a firm I’ve long admired,” stated Robin Elmslie Osler. “I look forward to working with the Interiors Studio to create spaces that motivate and inspire clients, individuals, and communities.”

Robin is known for creating elegant, well-crafted work that emphasizes sustainability and an attention to detail. She approaches each project with a unique blend of challenges and opportunities presented by the program, client and site. She distills multiple ideas into clear, gracious design solutions, with a sensitivity to considerations of proportion, space, light, and materials.

Prior to joining FXCollaborative, Robin was a Principal at EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect, the architectural firm she established in 1996. Previously, she was a Project Architect/Architectural Designer at Lee H. Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership; among others. Significant projects under her direction include Anthropologie (multiple U.S. retail stores); Kendall + Kylie; The Met Store (JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports, Fifth Avenue Balcony); L’Oréal; Kate Spade Headquarters; YM/YMHA of Washington Heights/Inwood; Portland Japanese Garden Gift Store; Free People Flagship Store (Tokyo); Greenway Mews (formerly the Colliers Printing House building); and Highline Stages, among others.

Robin is on the Dean’s Advisory Board and the Design Excellence Committee for the University of Virginia School of Architecture. She has held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, Yale University, Pratt Institute and City College of the City of New York. She has served on design reviews for the AIA Chicago and at the University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Parsons, Pratt, City College of New York, Catholic University, the University of Virginia, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Institute of Technology, and Columbia University.

After studying art at Kenyon College and metals at Tyler School of Arts, Robin had a successful career in the fashion industry in Europe as a model. She worked with photographer Helmut Newton, among others, on campaigns for designers such as Thierry Mugler and Gianni Versace. Currently, Robin is one of several artists and architects featured in J.Jill’s Inspired Women, an original video series highlighting women who “light sparks of inspiration in others,” and “have the ability to ignite emotions through the observable work they create.”

Robin received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. She is a licensed architect in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Connecticut and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Review Boards.