Gil Schafer

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Gil Schafer III, AIA has focused his career on residential projects for the last 20 years. Prior to establishing G. P. Schafer Architect, PLLC in 2002, Gil worked in several traditional residential architecture practices including Robert Orr & Associates, Peter Pennoyer Architects and Ferguson Murray & Shamamian Architects, where he was an associate and worked on large scale projects in, among other places, Tulsa, Palm Beach, and Nashville. Over the last two decades Gil has worked on projects in numerous and varied locations around the country including New York, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee and in scales ranging from under 1,000 square feet to nearly 40,000 square feet.

Gil grew up in an environment conducive to a career in traditional architecture, always living in and around old houses and being the grandson and great, great grandson of architects. Over the course of his childhood he was also fortunate to be exposed to life in a variety of places, including the Midwest, Northeast, Georgia, California and the Bahamas, each contributing to his sense of what makes places unique and how architectural traditions and lifestyle are influenced by context.

Following undergraduate studies in Growth & Structure of Cities at Haverford College and its sister institution Bryn Mawr, Gil graduated from Yale School of Architecture with a Masters Degree in 1988. While at Yale, Gil studied under several noted practitioners including Thomas Beeby, Robert Venturi, Josef Kleihues, Frank Gehry, and Bernard Tschumi and was the recipient of the H.I. Feldman Prize, Yale’s highest honor for studio work, in his final semester.

In addition to his architectural practice, Gil lectures around the country on the relevance and livability of traditional residential architecture today. He also serves on several non-profit boards and is a member of Yale School of Architecture’s Dean’s Council. From 1999-2006 Gil served as the President and then Chairman of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, the nation’s leading resource for the classical tradition in architecture and its allied arts.

Gil is a licensed architect in New York, Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee and Georgia and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB).

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