Established in 2003, Gardner Architects LLC is a residential architecture practice, focusing on sustainable, artfully crafted buildings and places. With over two decades of professional practice involving projects ranging from net-zero communities to vacation homes to private homes, and from additions to renovations to new construction in Washington DC, Baltimore, Annapolis, and surrounding regions, our work is site-specific, detail-oriented, and client-centric. Our work is devoted to a concern for space, light, order, and craft, and is guided by our commitment to environmental stewardship through responsible, inventive design and professional leadership. We foster a team approach in which all team members — from energy modelers to engineers, contractors to owners — are involved from the very beginning in order to make critical decisions about the materials, systems, and building technologies that form the basis for the design. We believe that this approach creates architecture which is integrated, holistic and innovative, considerate of its environmental impact. We do not have a “signature style” - each project grows somewhat organically from this team approach. Environmental issues and architecture are intrinsically linked at every level and we believe that, as architects, we are positioned to provide leadership in environmental responsibility. For these reasons we have continuously grown our interest and knowledge base in sustainable design. We view a sustainable design approach as not only productive and essential to our profession of designing buildings, but fundamentally important to us as we contemplate what kind of world we will leave to our children.
