GRO Architects

GRO Architects is an award-winning architectural practice that privileges the integration of emerging technologies to respond to client needs, project complexity, and collaboration between disciplines. Our work is situated between design and construction, however does not function as a traditional design-build practice. GRO occupies a space in which the design of material architecture is virtually co-mingled with the design of the process of building, and through which construction oscillates between the creation of information models, and the actualized built work. Through the conceptualization of how new digital protocols augment, challenge, and change the authorial process of design we create novel opportunities for our practice.Working at scales large and small on a range of projects from interior commercial work to ground-up residential projects and temporary exhibition design, our work at GRO Architects explores and questions aspects of innovative design output enabled by digital tools, including fabrication, energy simulation, logistical sequencing, data translation and parametrics. Such research is equally integral to the academic work of partners Nicole Robertson and Richard Garber. Nicole Robertson teaches digital design studios in the Barnard and Columbia Architecture program and in the Graduate Program in Architecture at the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, The New School. Richard Garber is a tenured Associate Professor at the New Jersey Institute of