Principal, Arrowstreet Architecture & Design
Amy Korté is an architect and managing partner at Arrowstreet, an architecture, planning and interior design firm based in Boston. She leads the design of Arrowstreet’s large-scaled mixed-use, commercial and infrastructure projects with a focus on how shifts in technology and emerging social trends impact cities and buildings. Amy also co-founded and directs AIR, a series of research and development incubators, which range from mixed reality and responsive environments to mobility and mass customization. In the past two years, her ideas about the future of parking and driverless cars have sparked a new conversation about designing for the future in urban areas. Amy has been featured in Curbed, PCmag, Fast Company and Wired and has spoken on panels nationwide including AR in Action, Founder’s Forum, Urbanism Next, CREW, NAIOP, MIT, Boston VR Meet Up and Hubweek. Arrowstreet is a Boston based architecture and design firm that was recognized as BostInno’s 50 on Fire design winner for developing innovative and creative solutions for the built environment. In addition to the traditional methods of practice, Arrowstreet’s Mixed Reality Studio is exploring ways to merge VR/AR with construction and how immersive computing will redefine building types