Collaboration Projects

COLLABORATION

Winder Gibson Architects has always considered collaboration to be a significant part of our practice. We have participated in many projects with various individuals and firms including out-of-state and up-and-coming architects, artists, contractors, interior designers, event producers and real estate agents and developers. Both in-house and with other parties, we take a team approach to our work, keeping the best interests of the project and the client in mind, working toward a common goal. The projects seen here are the fruits of those collaborations.

COLLABORATION

Winder Gibson Architects has always considered collaboration to be a significant part of our practice. We have participated in many projects with various individuals and firms including out-of-state and up-and-coming architects, artists, contractors, interior designers, event producers and real estate agents and developers. Both in-house and with other parties, we take a team approach to our work, keeping the best interests of the project and the client in mind, working toward a common goal. The projects seen here are the fruits of those collaborations.

Verticality

Guerrero House

Verticality

Guerrero House

Dwelling

Red House

FLEXIBILITY

While architecture is a social pattern and we seek to tailor a well-fitting architecture to our clients, we also understand that life changes and is unpredictable. Architecture should never be a straightjacket. Just the right fit is needed leaving some breathing room for the unexpected. Can you have a slumberparty for 20 in your living room? When you dim the lights just so, does a candlelit dinner for two feel right in your dining room?

FLEXIBILITY

While architecture is a social pattern and we seek to tailor a well-fitting architecture to our clients, we also understand that life changes and is unpredictable. Architecture should never be a straightjacket. Just the right fit is needed leaving some breathing room for the unexpected. Can you have a slumberparty for 20 in your living room? When you dim the lights just so, does a candlelit dinner for two feel right in your dining room?

HISTORY

We believe in creating an architecture of the present but also believe in maintaining a strong understanding of the past. We work on many historic buildings, carefully deciding where new should look new and where new should build upon and connect with the past. We look to history for examples and inspiration. We don’t believe that contemporary architecture is a style, per se, but rather an attitude that can be realized in many different looks and materials. To mimic the past is disrespectful but to learn from it is beautiful.

HISTORY

We believe in creating an architecture of the present but also believe in maintaining a strong understanding of the past. We work on many historic buildings, carefully deciding where new should look new and where new should build upon and connect with the past. We look to history for examples and inspiration. We don’t believe that contemporary architecture is a style, per se, but rather an attitude that can be realized in many different looks and materials. To mimic the past is disrespectful but to learn from it is beautiful.

Verticality

Guerrero House

Community

Sukkah

METAPHOR

Concept and metaphor are almost always present in architecture. These need not be complex or overwrought but do serve to organize and inspire the architecture. We often name parts or elements of our buildings (the saddlebag, the swiss army knife, the barcode in the sky) in order to playfully tease out their character and discuss them with our clients.

METAPHOR

Concept and metaphor are almost always present in architecture. These need not be complex or overwrought but do serve to organize and inspire the architecture. We often name parts or elements of our buildings (the saddlebag, the swiss army knife, the barcode in the sky) in order to playfully tease out their character and discuss them with our clients.

Light Rays

SFO Airport