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Rose Wood Architects, Inc. is an award winning design firm providing a full range of architectural services. We maintain a diverse practice with an emphasis on residential work. In our design process we engage each project in a thoughtful and joyful way with an attentiveness to obtaining the best results for our clients. We are strategic in our interventions and pay particular attention to detail, context and budget. Founded originally in 1963, Joan Wood Associates was a groundbreaking woman owed architectural office. It went on to become a respected and successful design firm, completing projects throughout New England including the renovation of over 100 19th century rowhouses in Boston’s South End . Joan's son Joshua worked with her for 12 years before taking ownership of the firm and renaming it Rose Wood Architects, Inc. We continue to produce innovative and professional design work resulting in well designed beautiful buildings.
Architectural services:
residential, commercial, institutional projects
new construction, additions, renovations, and interiors
design consults & feasibility studies
zoning, environmental and historic presentations, hearings and appeals
green building services and LEED certification
Our current commissions are diverse. They include a deep energy retrofit residential addition in Boston, a Passivhaus Community Center in Roxbury, Bakeries in the South End and in Mattapan, the second phase of a landscape project for a low-income housing co-op, a new chemical free home in New Hampshire and residential projects in the South End, Roxbury, Somerville, Roslindale and Medford. We have completed work on numerous single and multi-family dwellings throughout New England. Our projects are urban, suburban, coastal and rural. We have experience designing mixed use developments, off-grid homes, retail and residential renovations, storefronts, new construction, commercial and medical offices, historic preservation, adaptive reuse, space planning and feasibility studies. We have a long history of sustainable construction and are LEED accredited professionals. The firm has been recipient of numerous awards including a recent Boston Society of Architects small firms design award.
Our familiarity with community institutions and in guiding projects through public design review and permitting processes is extensive: the founding principal was a member of the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal and vice chair of the Massachusetts Designer Selections Board. Joshua has been a Design Review Committee member for numerous projects and community organizations. He also brings a wide variety of practical and professional expertise to the firm (including 10 years of architectural teaching).