Ayers Saint Gross
Ayers Saint Gross Architects and Planners specializes in master plans and building designs for higher education institutions. The firm is described as maintaining “a narrower focus on college and university work than any other in the country.” Walker, Childs. “Expansion of Baltimore architectural firm fueled by focus on colleges,” Baltimore Sun, August 8, 2011 .
Since the 1980s, Ayers Saint Gross has become a long-term adviser to many leading universities, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The firm’s academic projects range from master plans for entire campuses to classroom buildings, laboratories, performing arts centers and law and business schools. Its plans and designs are based on a determination of college and university goals from discussions with faculty, administrators, students and neighbors as to how the campus should change and grow.
The firm employs about 130 professionals and is organized into studios specializing in planning, academic and student life facilities, landscape architecture, environmental signage and graphic design. Mickelson, Kimberly. “Firm to Deliver Student Housing in Downtown Phoenix,” Building Arizona, October 11, 2011. Recent projects include the new National Library for George Washington at Mount Vernon, the master plan for the re-use of the historic St. Elizabeths’ hospital campus in Washington, DC, DC Dept. of Transportation and DC Office of Planning Krouse, Sarah. “St. Elizabeths project wins some, loses some,” Washington Business Journal, July 1, 2011 and master plans for Virginia Commonwealth University, Kapsidelis, Karin. “VCU begins work on new master plan,” November 11, 2011. the University of Southern California health sciences campus, Fried, Ina. “Looking ahead to 2035, USC maps out plan for campus,” The USC Weekly, March 5, 2010 and new campuses in Asia.]
Based in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was known for institutional and residential projects until the 1980s when it specialized in the "design and planning for non-profit institutions, with a specific focus on higher education." The current president is James Wheeler, AIA, LEED AP.
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