Jeff Day wasn’t convinced he should open an architectural practice in Omaha, Nebraska. It was 2018, and he was teaching architecture full-time at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he’d founded the student design-build studio FACT (Fabrication and Construction Team). Besides, he and his former business...
Patricia Benner, much-awarded landscape designer and founder of Benner Reibel Landscape Architects, began her professional life with an MBA. She worked in finance for several years before deciding it simply wasn’t for her. Then her mother, a landscape architect in New Jersey, created a plan...
Michael Hennessey, the founder of San Francisco-based Hennessey Architecture, is known as a minimalist, but his aims are far from minimal. “Even though our work is very measured and composed,” Hennessey says of his firm, “my hope is that it elicits an emotional response. That’s the...
For the vast majority of architecture firms, landscape architecture is considered a complementary but separate practice, even in the event they have a landscape designer on staff. It’s the building that’s primary, and landscape is secondary, providing a view, color, or perhaps warmth to orthogonal,...
Since opening his firm, Tryba Architects, in 1988, David Tryba has had a lasting and profound influence on his hometown of Denver, Colorado, and beyond. After graduating in 1981 from the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning, Tryba began professional practice in the...
California AIA’s 2022 Maybeck Award for outstanding achievement in a body of work in architectural design went to Anne Fougeron, founder of Fougeron Architecture. Of the San Francisco-based firm, the jury stated, “Anne Fougeron is an incredibly impressive architect whose work consistently challenges the profession’s...
Catharine Garber created the now Palo Alto, California-based Fergus Garber Architects (FGA) in Chicago in 1988. She added Fergus, her maiden name, to give the fledgling company’s name more weight. It was, in fact, a one-woman operation, with her infant son often crawling about under...
While it’s hardly an anomaly, it’s a bit unusual for siblings to cofound an architectural firm. However, Daniel Kaven and Trevor William Lewis, founders and principals of the award-winning Portland, Oregon-based William /Kaven Architecture, regard their brotherhood as one of their chief assets. They share...
Jamie Farmer and Scott Payne began their professional lives on the same late spring day in 2007, assigned to side-by-side desks at CLB Architects in Jackson, Wyoming. They’d both just graduated from architecture school: Farmer from Montana State University and Payne from Louisiana State University. [caption...
The landscape around George Ranch in Sonoma is quintessentially Californian. Its rolling hills are studded with sculptural live oaks and teeming with birds and wildlife. Sun-drenched meadows contrast with fog-shrouded vineyards; intermittent glimpses of distant mountaintops appear as one travels curving country roads. In short,...