Our Story
The studio philosophy was envisioned by Ted Galante and formalized in 1997. Ted’s training as a life long maker set the environment for exploring program, space, light, and time through material research and development. Ideas quickly become tested in prototype form in our studio shop, turn into models, and drawings leading to complete understanding of a building and its place. Drawing is essential for an architecture studio, but here equally essential are welding, grinding, table saw work and the like. Clients gain full scale understanding of their projects through this unique process of design and buildings are more thoroughly developed as a result.
Vision
We approach architectural design as a process of managing competing interests: finding balance between program and cost, performance and appearance.
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Our Core Values
Collaborative
We strive to foster a synergetic, cooperative workplace and process. Great ideas make for great architecture- and we want to hear yours.
Optimistic
Everything we do, we do for the love of architecture. Our energetic talent and enthusiasm for the craft results in projects full of endless possibilities.
Reliable
We’re dependable, and carefully manage every relationship we develop. We hold each other accountable and make ourselves as available as possible for our clients.
Agile
We’ve been around for 28 years- and know architecture is ever changing. We constantly face new and unique challenges, and have the skills to constantly adapt and innovate.
Genuine
Great buildings facilitate great places to live, work, and play. We live authentically, design creatively, and imbue our own authentic perspectives into every building we design and every relationship we foster. We’re a small team of real people- with tremendous ideas
Quality Oriented
We implement several means of quality control in each of our projects in order to create beautiful, functional spaces. From large scale planning to smaller scale fixtures- we’re checking the quality of every last detail.
Focused
Razor sharp focus is easy when you love what you do. We live for great architecture, and it’s evident in our focused methodology and attention to detail.
Inventive
We approach each project from every considerable vantage point and then some. We pride ourselves in tackling projects with open minds and innovative perspectives.