Gray Organschi Architecture New Haven is Spring 2017 Teaching Firm

Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven returns as a Spring 2017 Teaching Firm in Residence, led by Lisa Gray, FAIA and Alan Organschi. Gray Organschi has received national attention for 3 recent projects. The Common Ground Environmental Charter School in New Haven was published in Architectural Record’s January 2017 “Schools for the 21st Century” issue. Common Ground is the US’s longest running environmental charter school. Another of the firm's designs was featured in the online article "Great Escapes: The world's most beautiful contemporary cottages" in the internationally distributed CNN Style.

The National Building Museum in Washington DC’s exhibition, Timber City, on mass timber buildings in the US features two projects by Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven—the Common Ground High School, and Mill River Carousel Pavilion.  Alan Organschi and Andrew Ruff presented “Timber City: Growing and Urban Carbon Sink with Glue, Screws and Cellulose Fiber” at the World Conference on Timber Engineering in Vienna, Austria.  The work is supported by the Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability at Yale. Gray Organschi’s ongoing research is part of the Spring 2017 Graduate Architectural Design Studio they are teaching at RWU.