Architecture
Firm Profile
Flansburgh Associates, Inc. (FAI) is a Boston-based architectural firm, nationally recognized as a leader in the planning and design of academic facilities. The firm has completed approximately 250 educational projects for K-12 (elementary, middle, high school, charter) school, college, and university clients.
The longstanding leadership of the firm's owners - Alan S. Ross, AIA; Duncan P. McClelland, AIA; David Croteau, AIA; and Jorge M. Cruz, AIA - and the continued dedication and professionalism of our design staff, has gained the firm a national reputation for design excellence, technical skill, and cost control.
Project Approach
Since FAI's inception in 1963, the firm has refined a project approach that integrates a collaborative design process and the production of high quality contract documents to meet diverse client program requirements within budget and schedule restraints. The interface of design disciplines (planning, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and engineering) occurs during all phases of our design process, so the result is comprehensive and unified. This approach enables our firm to provide an overall standard of excellence in both interior and exterior building design.
Design Philosophy
FAI emphasizes a cost effective, environmentally responsive approach to design. Our schools encourage teaching and learning by providing an uplifting, stimulating environment characterized by flexible spaces, state of the art equipment, natural lighting, effective ventilation, comfortable furniture, harmonious colors, appropriate scale, appealing character, and warm materials. Our schools are cost effective: they are invariably accomplished within the school funding formulas. Our designs are often very different from each other, reflecting the particular needs of each school, but they are all durable, easy to maintain, energy efficient, and excellent environments for learning.
Educational Programming Expertise
As Programmers, as well as Architects, we put special emphasis on our ability to provide quality programming services to our clients. Having completed over 250 educational projects in the last 40+ years, including elementary, middle and high school buildings, we possess a unique depth of expertise in educational programming.
Designing classrooms to meet the needs of the 21st Century requires a special flexibility. This flexibility will apply to the teaching staff and allow an increased role for computers and other teaching aides in the classroom. Classrooms must accommodate different class sizes for large and small group instruction and special projects. It is state-of-the-art technology in educational facilities that also impacts as well as helps achieve the development of the program.