We take pride in designing buildings that fit perfectly.
They fit our clients. They fit the design brief. They fit the architectural context. They fit the site, the landscape.
And they fit the history of the people and the place as they become a part of it.
Buildings that fit are beautiful. They are beautiful to look at, and they are beautiful because they work.
Our designs are practical. We take full advantage of every material opportunity, we employ elegant planning strategies,
and we incorporate the most useful technology available.
We are committed to the craft of design. We design by hand. We prepare beautiful, legible drawings which make our design intent crystal clear to both clients and contractors.
You can be sure that we have thoughtfully considered
every aspect of our client’s design brief, and every construction detail. We strive to produce the highest quality buildings.
We have experience in a broad range of building types and sizes. We have worked on everything from bespoke cabinets, to courthouses.
But the core of our practice has been the design of custom residences,
including townhouses, apartments, suburban houses, and country estates.
We take pleasure in providing excellent service. We empower our clients by providing them with what they need to make informed decisions.
We want our clients to enjoy the process, from the first review of sketches and material samples,
to the final walk-through.
We have collaborated with the best decorators, landscape architects, and engineers in the industry.
We have worked with the top cabinetmakers, stone masons, metalworkers, plasterers, and all manner of specialized craftsmen. We have served the most discerning clients.
We look forward to working with you.
Dino Marcantonio is an architect (registered in NY, NCARB certified) and writer. He has also held teaching positions at the Yale School of Architecture, and the University of Notre Dame.
Dino has over 25 years of experience in the profession. He has worked on a wide array of project types,
including large scale institutional, educational, commercial, and
preservation projects such as the Lincoln Memorial; the Georgetown
University Law Center; the Beckley, West Virginia, Courthouse and
Federal Building; and a number of residential projects around the
world. He has also worked in a wide variety of project locations,
including the United States, Canada, Spain, Thailand, Austria, and
the Caribbean. He has extensive experience in luxury residential
projects which demand rigorous attention to detail and the highest quality construction.
He has lectured at universities and
professional conferences around the country and abroad, and has written numerous articles
and book reviews on the subjects of architecture and urbanism.
Publications include First Things, Sacred Architecture,
The Classicist, Period Homes, American Arts
Quarterly, Acroterion, and Retrospecta. Catesby Leigh,
architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal hailed his design for the
Pentagon Memorial as an outstanding classical design, that would create
an inspiring work of civic art.
Dino holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. His graduate work took him to Venice, where he studied the Renaissance masters Palladio, Sansovino, and Longhena.
Paloma Pajares is an architect (registered in Spain, COAM), author of the book Cosmatesque Ornament, and winner of the Rome Prize. She has taught at the Yale School of Architecture, the University of Notre Dame, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Universitat de Barcelona, and the Prince of Wales’s Urban Design Task Force.
Paloma has over 25 years of experience in the profession. She has worked on a wide array of project types, including mixed-use, data processing centers, cultural, hospitality, urban planning, adaptive re-use, and historical renovations, and in a wide range of project locations, including across the U.S., Spain, Canada, and China. She has extensive experience in luxury residential.
Her winning the Rome Prize brought her to the Royal Academy of Spain at Rome, to live as resident research fellow, and to work on her doctoral dissertation. That dissertation would would later become Cosmatesque Ornament (W.W. Norton, NY; Thames & Hudson, London), which architecture critic Martin Filler in The New York Times hailed as one of the best architecture books of 2002. Other publications include L'Architecture D'Aujourd'hui, Retrospecta YSOA, Architectural Journal, Building Design, Arquitectura Viva, Panorama, and Vogue. Her architectural watercolors have been exhibited widely, including at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid; the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; the Art Institute, Chicago; Columbia University, New York; POWIA, London; and the Royal Academy of Spain at Rome.
Paloma holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and a Master’s of Architecture from the Polytechnic of Madrid (both with highest honors), as well as a post-professional Master’s of Architecture from Yale.
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