Fergus Garber Young Architects

We create projects that both we and our clients are proud of. Our clients value our ability to understand them. The varied architectural styles of our projects reflect our goal to embrace our clients' interests and desires. We match their goals to the essential qualities of good architecture: strong plans, good proportions, and a high attention to detail to make functional and beautiful houses. We are strong managers of our client's design and construction processes. We work with our clients to establish the design services, teams, deliverables and fees that will best support their project. We utilize online anticipated cost systems, issuance and information tracking and collaboration tools that help us sustain the highly collegial relationships we have with our clients, contractors and other consultants that compose the design team. These management tools and our comprehensive design documentation result in projects that run smoothly, efficiently and are highly valued by our clients. We are leaders in environmental stewardship. Our focus and expertise in green design has resulted in one of our houses receiving LEED Platinum criteria, one of Northern California's first. We will be among the first in the nation to have performed an embodied energy analysis of a portfolio of our single family houses to establish targeted embodied energy thresholds for our design practice. We have significant expertise in designing to meet Green Points, LEED, California's Title 24 and CALGreen requirements. Our commitment to the environment is further supported by the addition of the Sustainability Manager role in our firm.