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About ABOVE THE FOLD

Working globally and contributing locally, ABOVE THE FOLD is a U.S.-based agency and team that curates and promotes the built environment with a focus on innovative, precedent-setting projects. Representing an international roster of firms & talent, our agency has a deep understanding of the profiles, practices, portfolios, and potential, and is engaged in the cultivation and promotion of projects from start to finish. Our roster’s experience and capabilities includes master planning, architecture, design, sustainability, art, construction, and image-making projects.

Since 2012, the agency has led a collaborative process for winning and publicizing 60+ projects on six continents — from creative housing projects, commercial adaptive reuse and an arts campus in Detroit, to a concert hall in Bogota, a community-centered senior housing development in Singapore, East Berlin’s former department store turned creative workspace, a U.S. Embassy in Mozambique, a tech company’s net-zero headquarters in Sydney and several U.S. cultural institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge), the Clyfford Still Museum (Denver), and Speed Art Museum (Louisville), among others.

Since 2022, ABOVE THE FOLD has worked with faculty at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning on promoting their work ranging from brick-and-mortar projects to research and development of new concepts and solutions for affordable housing, urban technology, building materials and construction methodologies.

Established in 2012, ABOVE THE FOLD’s founder John Patrick learned the ins-and-outs of real estate at The Marketing Directors (New York City, 2006) and business development and public relations in the international A/E/C industry at Rockwell Group (New York, 2007), OMA (Rotterdam, 2008), BIG (Copenhagen, 2009), and Allied Works (Portland and New York, 2010-2011).

He studied Economics at Tulane University while learning about architecture and continuing his interest in business, real estate, and cities. An avid traveler, John Patrick’s semesters and study abroad included Belize’s commitment to sustainable national development (2005) and metropolitan development in Berlin, Paris and St. Petersburg at IES Abroad through Humboldt-Universität (2008).

The A/E/C Industry

The value of construction on a global scale is expected to double to $17 trillion by 2029. Approaching “Architecture as the Art of Economics,” ABOVE THE FOLD is the world’s most diverse agency to expand and blend blending representation across disciplines while advancing constructed environments through design team curation.

Our work is at the forefront of centralizing talent representation in the A/E/C industry while contributing to the curation, visualization, promotion, and development of precedent-setting projects across the globe—from the U.S. to Singapore. Well-documented through projects won and built, as well as press books with mentions, profiles, features, awards, lectures, and more, ABOVE THE FOLD provides a holistic mix of services and deliverables as the agency of record for numerous projects and design teams. Our agglomeration of talent and insight is serveing communities, clients, and cities one project at a time.

International Experience

ABOVE THE FOLD has led integrated design team curation, RFQ/RFP submissions, and publicity campaigns in connection with private and public clients and projects in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, South Korea, Mozambique, Nigeria, Israel, India, Latvia and Switzerland, among others.

Committed to excellence, the design teams and projects represented by ABOVE THE FOLD are the world’s leading awards and prizes from the Pritzker Prize, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, and Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, to the National Organization of Minority Architects, the American Institute of Architects, Architectural Digest, The Architect’s Newspaper, and other media. Highlights include Best Multi-Family Development in the U.S.; the World Architecture Festival’s Best Building in the World; and Wired Magazine’s top projects of the year.

Detroit Contribution

Relocating ABOVE THE FOLD from New York City to Detroit in 2015, the agency promotes the vital and integral role of contemporary design in rebuilding a city.

From planning and concept stages through construction and post-occupancy, ABOVE THE FOLD has advised several clients on curating and promoting game-changing projects including True North, The Shepherd, Glass Mural, 4 over 4, Building in a Building, The Schvitz, and houses.

With each project, ABOVE THE FOLD aligns clients and stakeholders shared - and at times opposing - interests while identifying unique design teams from the agency’s roster. The agency’s work has been covered The Detroit News, Crain’s Detroit Business, HOUR Detroit, Detroit Design, and Detroitisit. Agency founder John Patrick is a volunteer on the Neighborhood Advisory Council for the Fisher Body Plant 21 redevelopment and Detroit People’s Food Co-op.