Architecture accommodates a world that is constantly shifting - from natural disaster, zoning changes, stock market turns, social trends. Architecture is able to measure these explicit and implicit movements through an adaptable geometry in order to negotiate a design system that is highly responsive to its context, aesthetic desires, programmatic needs, construction costs, and structural logic while maintaining the integrity of design concept for the built environment.

GA is a small architecture firm committed to providing architectural services that take into account the desires and needs of the client, as well as new technologies, site specificities, budget constraints, and social conditions to produce exciting and appropriate design solutions. We believe that combining building practice, research and collaborative professional relationships is key in developing innovative design solutions that act as a positive factor on economic, environmental and cultural levels. Our design work has given us experience well beyond simply design. We have worked closely with engineers, GeoTechnical advisers, sustainability experts, land-use attorneys, non-profit consultants, landscape architects, and exhibition and graphic designers to provide a responsive team that best serves a variety of project types. Current office projects include a carbon-zero folly in Litchfield County, Connecticut, a single-family townhouse in New York City, and a research project for an art institution in Berlin.

GAuthier Architects is lead by Design Director Douglas Gauthier who has over 20 years of professional experience in architecture. His work during this time has taken him from San Francisco (project architect, the San Jose Repertory Theater, Holt Hinshaw Jones), to the former Eastern Bloc (grant for research of defunct armament factories), to Western Europe (project architect, Le Fresnoy Mediateque and Film School, Bernard Tschumi Architects; commissioned school and youth center), to Australia, where he built a BURST* house prototype later re-commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, to his present base in New York.