Jay Berman AIA has advised, planned, and designed major projects for universities, corporations, developers, and private owners across North America and around the world. He is sought out by clients for leadership, planning expertise, and design sensibility. He brings vision and clarity to building projects in the most sensitive contexts, and navigates projects through the most complicated institutional and public processes.

Prior to founding Halls Lane Studio in 2020, he served as Chief Planning and Design Officer of Palava City for Lodha Group, directing the overall planning and design process for a 5,000 acre development northeast of Mumbai. Previously, he practiced for twenty years at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where he was a Design Partner until 2018, leading academic, institutional, headquarters, office, residential, mixed-use, tall/supertall, and renovation/repositioning projects. He completed numerous master plans and development plans while at PCF&P and played a central role in growing the firm’s international planning practice.