As published in the March 2021 issue of AIA CT ArchiType

What I Hope My Kids Are Learning From The 2020 Pandemic

The question we can’t confront too early or return to too often is: how can we make the world a better place? The question is, in fact, more personal: how can I make the world a better place? Our office was founded on that ideal held by all of us collectively and asked of each of us individually.E...

Our Gardens are the places where we commune with nature – both within the wider world and within ourselves. Our gardens are the fresh, open-air places which give us a moment to breath in a busied world, giving us an opportunity to feel the warmth of sun on our shoulders and the coolness of win...

Our Nooks are the idiosyncratic little holes-in-the-wall that needle affection into our hearts. They’re the special places that emerge – nearly from the cracks in the sidewalk – and evolve, through love and care, into places that we know belong to “our neighborhood”. ...

Our Castles are the splendorous places that inspire us to awe and wonder. They make us feel grand, and worthy, and important; and they inspire us to see virtue in our fellow citizens, as well. On a recent trip into New Haven, my two-year old pointed up excitedly and exclaimed, “look, Mama, ...

Property Value, Life-Cycle Value, Value Engineering. Value is a topic central to the Building Design and Construction industry. As architects, we are tasked with designing buildings that offer our clients a high value. We home in on efficiencies – in space planning, materials, and building ...

Our kitchen at work is full of mugs – lots of them – all different colors, designs, sizes, and some of varying shapes.  Scanning these mugs looki …

At age three, my son walked out of pre-school carrying a drawing of his “house.” At that time, we lived in an apartment building in Chicago, and  …

Many years ago when I started my career in this industry, I happened to casually mention to a colleague that in my college presentations I would hide …

A fresh box of clay. Brimming with possibility but intimidating. The beginnings of a clay sculpture can begin methodically: a sketch, a measured drawi ...

You’re making dinner, and the water comes to a boil so you pour in the pasta.  After a few minutes, it’s time to check it.  So what do you do? ...

In the future and indeed right now, there is only learning. It is said that teachers are a dime a dozen but students are hard to come by. In the cultu ...

Phillip Johnson’s Glass house was the architectural star of New Canaan, Connecticut until the fall of 2015 when Pritzker Prize winning, architectural ...

These unique integrated artwork pieces reinforce Continuum’s brand and mission which is to provide a variety of in-home care services for their clients ...

In all of our community process work, we try to create another context, an experience of something other than the idea of who we are and begin to have ...

Branding a lab is one way to make labs into “productive playgrounds”, or places that inspire and energize people, while becoming a home for scientific ...

If we have saved the planet, will we have saved ourselves? Necessity is the mother of invention. So, once we have saved the planet (if we can?) ...

Architecture is change: change in style, change in materiality, change happening constantly and never stopping.  We are increasingly seeing our designs ...

From a sketch…

This project brought sculptural imagery to the formal expression of the facades themselves. The sail-like shapes of the classrooms recall the boats ...

The sculpture aims to bring alive the Dominican tradition and, in particular, the namesake of the college, Albert the Great. His statue is a single caryatid ...

Two primary sculptural elements express the spirit of this urban elementary school. At the entrance is a sixteen foot high caryatid created from laser ...

A Conversation on Information Technology Over 5000 Years:  A Dialogue Across Time and Space. This work provides an open “story” which ...

The theme of time, integrated into the architecture, enlivens the curriculum and reminds the community of their local heritage. At the highest point ...

Found out there's a competition for creating art in agar (growth medium for microbiology) ...

Natural art to be admired- amazing

Creating sustainable communities is part of our mission here at Svigals + Partners. Award winning student project Elevator B reminds us of communities …

I came across this art installation while walking around the plaza at CityCenter in DC. It’s amazing how artwork can transform a portal!

Like architecture, culinary works are meant to be enjoyed with multiple senses. But could you bring yourself to destroy these beautiful little creatur ...

Pretty awesome end product when a community gets together with an artist to create a comprehensive and collaborative piece of living art!

As seen in Laboratory Design Labs aren’t just research platforms. They’re also workplaces for principal investigators (PIs), researchers, technici …

as seen in upstart.bizjournals.com The UpTake: It’s part of growing up as a startup: that moment when you realize you need your own space, and it’s ...

Opening ourselves beyond our horizons can yield exponential returns.

Leave room for the creativity of the world to enter in!

Why can’t we do architecture and involve our physical sense of who we are?

“Let us not forget the human presence.”

Put too many creative minds in one office, someone’s bound to get paint on the walls!

Lincoln-Bassett School, New Haven, CT

Jonathan Reed Elementary School, Waterbury, CT

Keynote address by Barry Svigals at the 2013 Build Pittsburgh conference.

ConnCAT Headquarters, New Haven, CT