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Architecture must accommodate a world that is constantly shifting - from natural disaster, zoning changes, stock market turns, social trends. We are increasingly able to determine these explicit and implicit movements using evolving, precise tools of measurement. At GAuthier Architects, we believe that an adaptable geometry provides the best system to negotiate a design system that is highly responsive to its (ever shifting) context, aesthetic desires, programmatic needs, construction costs, and structural logic yet still maintains the integrity of the initial design concept. 

GAuthier Architects 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 can ably serve a variety of project types. Current office projects include a carbon-zero folly that returns electricity to the grid in Litchfield County, Connecticut, a single-family townhouse in New York City, and a research and exhibition facility for an art institution in Berlin.

GA 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.