Firms
Elton + Hampton Architects
Website: http://www.eltonhamptonarchitects.com
Location: Allston, MA
Description: “The firm of Elton + Hampton Architects is dedicated to serving those who live and work in Boston’s urban areas, and in urban areas throughout Massachusetts. We take pride in our contributions in rebuilding and stabilizing blighted neighborhoods, in serving disadvantaged, disabled, and elderly populations, and in creating sustainable architecture that complements the past and will endure for the future."
Opticos
Website: http://www.opticosdesign.com
Location: Berkeley, CA, and Seaside, FL
Description: “Opticos Design, Inc. is an award-winning multi-disciplinary design firm founded in Berkeley, California that specializes in creating great places by revitalizing old and creating new pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods and cities and designing well-crafted traditional and classical architecture. Opticos seeks to create and revitalize healthy, sustainable, and diverse communities.”
Studio G Architects
Website: http://www.studio-g-architects.com/
Location: Jamaica Plain, MA
Description: “Studio G Architects believes we have a unique opportunity and social responsibility, as intermediaries between people and space to leverage the creative potential of design and to develop forms that respond to individual needs and the challenges defining our era.”
The Narrow Gate
Website: http://www.the-narrow-gate.com/
Location: Boston, MA
Description: “We are a collaborative dedicated to providing architectural services for people who are often underserved or marginalized in our community: the poor, homeless, and ill-housed, women, children, individuals in recovery, the elderly, and the disabled. Our designs strive to complement and revitalize existing neighborhood contexts; to preserve and sustain the natural environment, to improve the built environment and to strengthen community life.”
Torti Gallas and Partners
Website: http://www.tortigallas.com/
Locations: Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Istanbul
Description: “As architects, we design residential, commercial, and institutional buildings to be in context with their environment, to be functionally and aesthetically innovative, economically sensible, and a delight to the user. As master planners and urban designers, we create the neighborhoods that integrate architecture and the public realm, and we ensure that our buildings, neighborhoods and campuses contribute to the cities and towns of which they are a part, physically, socially, and economically.”
