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Guy Peterson | Office for Architecture’s design studio is located in Sarasota, Florida. OFA is a studio-based practice with a team of professionals all committed to excellence in architecture and personal service to their clients. Led by the firm’s founder and principal, Guy W. Peterson, FAIA, the studio has received over 60 design awards and honors for their work including 40 design awards from the American Institute of Architects. The high quality and originality of their work over an extended period of time has raised public awareness of the value of an architecture based upon honesty and simplicity. The springboard for OFA’s work has been the regional modernism of the “Sarasota School of Architecture," a recognized movement in architecture, which spanned from 1941-1966. The “Sarasota School” blended the cultural, vernacular and tropical influences of traditional South Florida architecture with the philosophies of the Bauhaus. Through their use of color, indigenous materials, light and shadow, Guy Peterson | OFA has derived a softened Bauhaus aesthetic, which results in a |
clear, sustainable and delightful architecture. Their architecture achieves this delight by orchestrating a sequencing of spaces that hold one’s interest through a process of discovery. OFA’s commitment to advancing the cause and public value of architecture derives from a long standing belief in “essentialism”, a concept which demands design by analysis and reduction rather than by stylistic imitation and embellishment. This idea is perhaps best expressed by this quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. The practice of architecture is a privilege and opportunity that Guy Peterson | OFA pursues with sensitivity through the use of sustainable design concepts both for the buildings and the landscape. Our goal is to create an architecture that will have a wide relevance and influence with the architectural culture of our society and will have lasting effects on the built environment and the quality of life. We look forward to the future. |