From napkin sketch through computer models to "final punch" at the end of construction, we lead clients in collaboration to design beautiful and earth-friendly spaces where they work, play, reflect, create, and live. For projects large and small, our versatile open studio brings imagination and expertise in construction and budget management to create value for private homes and gardens, revitalized main streets, and busy non-profit arts and service groups. To see more, come visit us for a bird’s-eye view of the Boston Common.
David Linzee Amory AIA, Principal
David got his first taste of design as a boy making pine half-models of boat hulls with his dad, gaining an eye for shape and sheer to express economy of form (beauty and speed) and function (seaworthiness and utility). It also taught him to measure twice and cut once. After studying Fine Arts at Harvard College and architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, David cut his teeth in Chicago working for noted designers Ben and Cindy Weese, Helmut Jahn, and Laurence Booth. David founded Amory Architects in 1988, and as principal, he works directly with clients from design through construction. His recent travelogue, Encounters with Enigma – Twelve Days from the Neva to the Silk Road, is a meditation on architecture and reinvention.
T.J. Hrabota, AIA
After completing architectural studies at Ball State University, T.J. worked for Arquitectonica in Miami and Breyer Associates in Cambridge before joining Amory Architects in 2001. T.J. is our in-house expert on lighting and Building Information Modeling (BIM), our software for design, modeling, and construction documents. He snowboards in winter, bikes in summer, and makes excellent pierogi year-round.
Sukie Amory
Sukie studied at Radcliffe College, the University of London, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Before launching Amory Architects with David, she worked at the Bayreuth Opera Festival, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and CBS-TV. Sukie is the financial manager of Amory Architects and collaborates with staff on interior and garden design. Her Brookline garden is recognized in the Smithsonian Archive of American Gardens, the Boston Globe Magazine, Fine Gardening, and Outside the Not So Big House. Sukie’s latest article "Eros Toi Sofia – Sofiyivka: A Garden of Allusion in Ukraine" appears in HORTUS.
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