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,...
Arizona may have its fair share of Taliesin educated or inspired architects, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any more dedicated to the design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright than founder Ron Brissette and partner Jeff Kamtz of Phoenix, Arizona-based Brissette Architects. That’s not to imply...
The three principals of Missoula, Montana-based Hone Architects + Builders have much in common. They grew up in families who built anything from sheds to shelves and houses from scratch. They’ve all been out in freezing weather working as timber framers. And all are into...
The founders of the Salt Lake City, Utah-based WOW Atelier didn’t connect on the well-trod path of so many architecture firms; they didn’t meet in architecture school or while working for other designers. No. They became good friends while working at Nordstrom, Gregory Walker in...
“You never know where you’re going to get that first job,” says architect Chris Gray with a laugh. When he and Steven Perce co-founded the Boulder, Colorado-based bldg.collective in 2009, the firm was just the two of them working from their homes. That first job arrived...
For MacCracken Robinson Architects, everything concerning design springs from the creation of a concept. The concept itself can be as simple as the juxtaposition of old and new, but it serves both as the guide to conceiving a design and a base to return to...
Equiterra Regenerative Design’s title is a play onequilibrium (balance) and terra (earth). It’s a rebranding of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm founded in 2000 as Environmental Dynamics Inc. (EDI) by four young, idealistic architects who were passionate about promoting sustainable design. Cofounder Kent Beierle likes to...