Albert , Righter & Tittmann Architects

ART Architects was formed in 1996 when Jim Righter, Jacob Albert, and John Tittmann decided to pool their efforts. They havent looked back since. The firm is now best known for its command of New England architectural traditions and fresh interpretations, both classical and vernacular. ART's work is beautifully naturalizedto site, to purpose, and to tradition. Jim Righters architectural career began at Yale in the mid-1960s. Graduating from the School of Architecture in 1970, he was part of a new movement in architecture that turned its back on the limiting modernist orthodoxy of the day. Led by architects like Charles Moore and Robert Venturi and the great architectural historian Vincent Scully, this new vision drew forms from all eras. Scully introduced a generation of students to the great river of culture embodied in architecture and reminded them that architecture is an essential bearer of meaning. Jacob Albert was a student at Yale of both Jim's and Scully's, for whom he was head TA for a year. For Jacob, the study of history and the study of architecture were one and the same. Upon graduating from the School of Architecture, Jacob worked briefly for Allan Greenberg in New Haven and then followed Jim to the heart of Boston, where James Volney Righter Architects had just moved and where the practice would thrive. Together, Jim and Jacob created a rich portfolio of new houses that explored classical and vernacular idioms indigenous to New England. John Tittmann followed Jims and Jacobs footsteps through Yale College and the Yale School of Architecture, where he was also influenced by Scullys circle. Deeply interested in the possibilities of the classical tradition, John took extensive sketching trips to Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Spain to see classical and Mediterranean sites firsthand. On one trip, in 1987, he traveled with Thomas Gordon Smith to ancient Ionia to assist Smiths research for a new translation of Vitruvius. By 1991, John had moved to Boston, where he hung out his own shingle as Tittmann ...