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News

February 3 — 2025

November 22 — 2024

November 1 — 2024

AIA NE Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture

AIA CT Excellence in Architecture Encompassing Art

AIA CT Excellence in Commercial Small Projects

September 28 — 2024

Architecture & Science: Building Solutions for the Planet

May 1 — 2024
March 12 — 2024

The Skyscraper Museum's newest exhibit, "Tall Timber", features GOA work.

March 8 — 2024

GOA's Horse Island has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

February 21 — 2024

February 13 — 2024

Starlight Park Facilities is featured in the kitchen and bath section of Architectural Record’s February Issue.

CLT
January 17 — 2024

This panel explored the usage of innovative wood systems and how they can inform taller, higher-performing structures with lower embodied carbon and environmental impacts.

YSOF w/ GMF
February 2 — 2024

Alan and Andy foster a partnership between YSOF and GMF to research sustainable architectural design in wood.

December 6 — 2023

Alan delivered keynote at the Bhutan Pavillion COP28 UAE. The Regenerative Bhutan Initiative for the Thimphu Paro bioregion offers a novel model for carbon-negative urbanization.

December 30 — 2023

WELL AP demonstrates a salutogenic approach to design.

December 6 — 2022

ACME Timber Lofts has received its first shipments of CLT from SmartLam North America’s Dothan Alabama plant this past week.

Shop Floor Interior
December 12 — 2023

The Architect's Newspaper has awarded the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation a Best of Design Award in the Unbuilt - Conceptual category!



December 7 — 2023

The Regenerative Building | Bio-regional Synergies Yale Advanced Studio 2023 taught by Alan and Andy concluded this Friday. Salute to the immense effort and and thoughts manifested in the student work!

December 5 — 2023

“We can avoid emissions, build dense cities and sequester carbon. We can decarbonise concrete. And by using other materials we can sink carbon and store it in the system on a massive scale.”

November 16 — 2022

Lisa talks about the office's mission and focus on the environment with Amy Stone

September 16 — 2020

Lisa is one of five recipients of 2020's Women in Architecture Awards by Architectural Record.

September 20 — 2023

This webinar explores the essential design decisions for achieving cost-effective and sustainable solutions in mass timber multi-family housing projects.

December 8 — 2023

GOA's Quarry Cottage is featured in Dwell's 20 most-liked homes on their Instagram in 2023.

October 1 — 2023

Alan was on air in the episode of Building sustainable cities: How they’re made at Podcast Renewable future.

December 1 — 2022

We are honored to announce that Timber City has won the project of the year at the AIA Connecticut 2022 design awards!

October 11 — 2023

Horse Island Research Station has been awarded Excellence in the Commercial, Institutional, Educational, or Multi-Family Residential Design – Small category for the 2023 AIA Connecticut Design Awards.

G7
October 3 — 2023
March 1 — 2021

A new report explores how offsite mass timber and light-frame wood construction could boost affordability, cut carbon emissions, and speed up construction.

December 17 — 2021

Principal Alan Organschi has been appointed Director of the Innovation Lab at the newly formed Bauhaus der Erde (Bauhaus Earth) in Berlin, Germany.

April 21 — 2023

Alan Organschi is set to deliver a keynote titled “A Role for Forest Products in Climate Restoration” at the upcoming G7 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting in Miyazaki, Japan on April 21st.

September 14 — 2023

He spoke about creating systemic change based on natural materials: “Our problem and our challenge is buildings and construction, because the way we build is not sustainable. By using wood wisely and sustainably, we can achieve the necessary transformation of the construction sector.”

HHFT Bridge
September 1 — 2023

GOA receives an Excellence in Design Award by the NYC Public Design Commission for Hudson Highland Fjord Trail Breakneck Bridge.


December 14 — 2022

The project represents a three-year collaboration between Gray Organschi Architecture through its research and fabrication subsidiary JIG Design Build, the Yale Forests, and Odeh Engineers to develop experimental, laminated structural timber components using wood drawn from northeastern forests for potential future application in low to mid rise urban construction assemblies (IBC Types IV HT and IV C.)

February 9 — 2023

GOA is pleased to receive this notice from Buildings and Cities Editor-in-Chief Richard Lorch announcing the review of CARBON: A Field Manual for Building Designers by the renowned building lifecycle researcher Dr. Francesco Pomponi.

December 9 — 2021

Alan has recently been appointed to the US Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations' (OBO) Industry Advisory Group for a two-year term.

December 10 — 2021

The newly-released "Horizon Europe - New European Bauhaus Nexus Report" is a set of guiding principles for the New Bauhaus Initiative.

October 11 — 2023

Nauset Beach House has been awarded a Commendation: Beautiful Consideration of Light, Materials, & Context in the Residential Architecture category for the 2023 AIA Connecticut Design Awards.
You can read more about the project: HERE

October 7 — 2022

What were the environmental consequences of Mies’s material choices? For the next 10 days, visitors to the pavilion (which was dismantled in 1930 and recreated in the 1980s) will be encouraged to consider that question, thanks to an installation built within Mies’s masterwork and made entirely of cross-laminated timber (CLT) from Galician forests.

September 25 — 2023

Alan discussed how mass timber is a good fit for affordable housing, highlighting 340 Dixwell as an example of what is possible by working with mass timber and light frame construction.

November 16 — 2020

Yale architecture students are building a teaching and research center “off the grid” on Horse Island, a 17-acre property in Connecticut’s Thimble Islands.

ITA Zurich, ETH
October 9 — 2023

Alan Organschi gave the opening keynote at the Biofrontiers Symposium, which took place at the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich.

October 11 — 2023

Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation has received the prestigious Honor Award in the Unbuilt category for the 2023 New England Architecture Awards

Awards

RADA Awards

Candlewood Cottage

AIA Connecticut Excellence in Architecture Encompassing Art

Starlight Park Facilities

AIA Connecticut Excellence in Commercial Small Projects

Starlight Park Facilities

AIA New England Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture

Starlight Park Facilities

NY Design Award Better Future

Starlight Park Facilities

The Architect's Newspaper: Best of Design Award

Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation

AIA New England Best of Design

Anthony Timberlands Center for Design

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Horse Island

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Nauset Beach House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Washington Art Association

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Little Harbor House

HIVE 50 Innovator Award

Ecological Living Module

New York Design Awards

Ecological Living Module

American Architecture Award

Ecological Living Module

Wood Design & Building Award

Henry David Thoreau Footbridge

Wood Design & Building Award

Common Ground High School

Residential Architect Design Award

Ecological Living Module

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Adirondacks House

German Design Award

Common Ground High School

AIA New England Design Award

Chilmark House

AIA New England Design Award

Firehouse 12

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Woodland House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Chilmark House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Mill River Park Carousel Pavilion

Green Good Design Award

Common Ground High School

American Architecture Award

Common Ground High School

WoodWorks Wood Design Award

Common Ground High School

WoodWorks Wood Design Award

Firehouse 12

IES Illumination Award

Common Ground High School

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Common Ground High School

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Woodland House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Firehouse 12

CTGBC Green Building Award

Common Ground High School

AIA New England Design Award

Old Quarry House

AIA New England Design Award

AIA New England Design Award

Woodland House

AIA New England Design Award

Common Ground High School

NYC Public Design Commission Award

South Shore Little League Stadium

NYC Public Design Commission – Excellence in Design

Hudson Highland Fjord Trail Breakneck Bridge

American Academy Arts and Letters Award

AIA National Housing Award

Fairfield Jesuit Community Center

Residential Architect Rising Star Award

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Fairfield Jesuit Community Center

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Cottage

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Mill River Park Porch

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Lanterns

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Storage Barn

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Fairfield Jesuit Community Center

AIA New England Design Award

Fairfield Jesuit Community Center

Builder Magazine Builder's Choice Award

Fairfield Jesuit Community Center

AISC IDEAS² Award

Storage Barn

CTGBC Green Building Award

Storage Barn

AIA New England Design Award

Storage Barn

AIA New England Design Award

Cottage

American Architecture Award

Storage Barn

Architectural League Emerging Voices

ARCHITECT Magazine Annual Design Review

Storage Barn

ARCHITECT Magazine Annual Design Review

Cottage

Residential Architect Design Award

Cottage

WoodWorks Wood Design Award

Firehouse 12

AIA New England Design Award

Tennis House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Firehouse 12

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Coliseum Reconsidered

AIA New England Design Award

Hillside House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Hillside House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Footbridge

AIA New England Design Award

AIA New England Design Award

Footbridge

Northeast Green Building Award

Tennis House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Tennis House

AIA Connecticut Design Award

Caretaker's House

AIA New England Design Award

Cabana

AIA Connecticut Emerging Architect Award

WoodWorks Wood Design Award

WoodWorks Wood Design Award

Caretaker's House

Publications

RADA Design Awards Feature

ARCHITECT Magazine

What We Must Afford (Some Thoughts on System Change in Global Housing)

A Chapter in: Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing

Deep Consciousness: Lisa Gray on Mission Focus, Environmental Awareness, and Seeing Differently

Madam Architect

Yale Architecture Students Build a Unique Off-Grid, Outdoor Classroom

Metropolis

Using Buildings for Carbon Storage

Mass Timber Digest

House Above the South Shore

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

On Horse Island, students take regenerative design 'off the grid'

Yale News

Is Wood the Future of Sustainable Multifamily?

Multi-Housing News

Affordable Housing in the Works on Dixwell

New Haven Independent

Inside an Eclectic Retreat on Shelter Island

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

University of Arkansas selects six finalists for new Anthony Timberlands Center

The Architect's Newspaper

Grafton and WT/GO Proposals for Arkansas Timber Design School Revealed

Architects' Journal

Building Timber Cities to Protect the Climate

The Hill

Building High-Rises Out of Wood Can Help Save the Planet

WIRED

Buildings Made Out of Timber Could Become an Important Global Carbon Sink

European Scientist

Building with Timber Instead of Steel

Fast Company

Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink

Nature Sustainability

Radical Change in the Building Industry Is Desperately Needed, and It Can’t Happen Without Building Trades

Metropolis

What Caesar Saw: Building with Wood

Suddeutsche Zeitung

Ecological Living Module: Small in stature, big in potential

Wood Design & Building

Joseph A. Verdino Jr. Grandstand

Women-Designed NYC

Before & After: A Connecticut Lake House Gets a Dose of Scandinavian Style

Dwell

It's a Family Affair

Martha's Vineyard Magazine

Just Design Initiative

Archinect

Ecological Living Module

Baumeister

A Student and Teacher Team Up

Dwell

Ecological Living Module

Dezeen

How 240sf Might Change the Tiny House

Architectural Digest

Gray Organschi Architecture's Holistic Vision

Cultured Magazine

GOA Revives a Decayed 1970s House

Metropolis

Miracle in Midtown

Bloomberg

Super-Sustainable Dwelling

Metropolis

Beyond Green

Architectural Design

Calling Nature

Litchfield Magazine

Living on Water

Phaidon

Great Escapes

CNN Style

Making Space

Take Magazine

Sound and Vision

Dwell

A Warm and Welcoming Place

Residential Design

Black Magic

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Common Ground High School

Casabella

Of Poetry and Bridges

Litchfield Magazine

The Rise of the Wooden Skyscraper

Anthropocene

Under and Over

Interior Design

A Study in Materials

Architectural Record

Tall Timber

Science

Moving Mountains

Dwell

Interview: Alan Organschi

Paprika

TImber Grows Up

Architectural Record

Head of its Class

Dwell

Advanced Studios Fall 2014

Constructs

Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi

Constructs

Top Grades

Dwell

The Depot Home

Dwell

True to Form

Architectural Digest

Bridgework

Dwell

Light Motif

Dwell

Cottage in Guilford

EDITION29

Masterpieces

Braun

Teach, Pray, Live

The New York Times

The Power of Pro Bono

Metropolis Books

Light Motif

Dwell

Storage Barn

Ktirio

Storage Barn

Architect

3 Questions for 8 Emerging Voices

Archinect

Firehouse 12

Puu Wood Magazine

One-Stop Hub for Avant-Garde Jazz

The New York Times

At Home in a Modern Church

Dwell

Encore, Encore: Shell Games

Residential Architect

Making Space

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

Siren Song

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

Firehouse Adaptive Re-Use

Connecticut Home and Garden

Pastoral Manner

Dwell

In a Firehouse, Life with Art and Music

The New York Times

Set in Stone

House & Garden

Small Living Spaces

Carlos Broto & Joseph Minquet

A Barn Raising at Foote School

Fine Homebuilding

New Coastal House

Carlos Broto & Joseph Minquet

Hot Dirt, Cool Straw

Hearst

A Guest House and Tennis Pavilion

Architectural Record