Gumuchdjian Architects

We pursue an intuitive approach that is driven by context and local culture. We develop designs that fuse buildings into their context. We aim to deliver surprising yet culturally rooted buildings that enhance the wider public realm, that create a sense of place and that engage the passer-by. We seek to distill complex problems into simple conceptual or architectural propositions. Our starting point is the understanding of the context and identifying relevant building types, new and ancient that we refine and thoroughly modernise. Our buildings inhabit a place between the familiar and the unexpected, a quality that includes and intrigues. The success of our designs entirely depend on the skill and ingenuity of our collaborators. Landscape architects, engineers, artists and craftsmen are as indispensable to the process as is the presence of a trusting client. Everyday work is devoted to delivering apparently simple and uncluttered buildings that clients can evolve over time. We want our buildings to evoke a crafted, hand made feel but to be of their time. We use generous landscape and hardy, textured materials that age with grace and evoke rich associations. Developing common sense sustainable environmental solutions is endemic to our approach because a 21st Century building can and should be a benign presence on our planet.