SITAL PATEL, PRINCIPAL

Managing Principal Sital Patel brings more than 30 years of experience spanning architecture, engineering, and development. Since joining S9 Architecture in 2012, he has played a central role in shaping and managing the firm’s organizational and operational processes, integrating the business and practice of architecture to balance the aspirational with the pragmatic in each project.

Sital oversees the studio’s management systems and workflows, helping craft highly efficient teams that emphasize design excellence throughout the life of every project. Equally adept at communicating complex design and construction issues with clients, consultants, contractors, and approval agencies, he ensures projects remain coordinated and on track both within the studio and beyond it.

Reinforcing his integrated approach to the business and practice of architecture, Sital balances the aspirational with the pragmatic in every project. His leadership on projects such as Browning Upper School—transforming a 1908 parking garage into a progressive educational environment—reflects that duality, as does his work on adaptive reuse and workplace developments, including Building 127 and Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the office-to-residential conversions of 4 Manhattan West and 110 Wall Street.

Sital also plays a lead role in human resources, studio operations, and technology infrastructure, strategically building the capabilities of the S9 team and fostering a highly functional and collaborative design environment.

A Certified Development Professional (ICSC) and former Chairman of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission, Sital earned a BA in Art History from the University of Saskatchewan and both a Master of Architecture and a BA in Environmental Design from Dalhousie University.