ELIZABETH SUMNER TUROWSKI
Treasurer
Treasurer of Turowski² Architecture, Libby’s experience spans over 20 years and includes work on a range of projects from single family residential to public libraries. She has also been project designer for several retail stores for a national chain, as well as project manager for a public housing project. Please follow this link to Libby’s resume.

PETER J. TUROWSKI, AIA
President
Peter Turowski is president of Turowski² Architecture and brings over 20 years of experience on a wide scale of public projects including schools, higher education projects, libraries, public safety buildings, and recreational facilities. His experience also includes historic restoration, adaptive re-use of historic structures, and renovations. Peter has a particular interest in sustainable design and designing buildings to fit comfortably into their natural and architectural context. Please follow this link to Peter’s resume.
 

ABOUT US

Turowski² Architecture, Inc. was founded in 2007 by husband and wife team, Peter and Libby Turowski. Prior to establishing their practice, the couple worked in a variety of firms and locations. Peter was former partner in the firm of Margo Jones Architects and Libby was a partner in the design firm of Cobalt Design Studio. Both firms were located in Greenfield, MA where the couple resided for eight years. The couple returned to their Eastern Massachusetts roots with the aim to serve the beautiful and historic communities of the region.

Turowski² Architecture, Inc. offers complete architectural services from planning to building design and construction administration. We bring the experience of working in a range of environments, including the urban context of Boston and its suburbs, the wet wilderness of the coast of Oregon, the snowy environs of the Connecticut River Valley and Berkshires, and the wind and salt swept shores of Massachusetts. This broad experience has helped shape our skills in designing for distinct places, both in terms of identifying aesthetic characteristics associated with individual places, and importantly, designing for its sometimes adverse and varied environmental conditions.

As a team, we bring over 40 years of combined experience on a wide array of projects, which range from something as small as a single room addition to a residence, to a public school for 600 students. We appreciate the varied challenges that this range of projects has brought to us, from working with a single client or a family on plans for their new home, to working with a dedicated group of volunteer building committee members as they go through the long process of planning, designing and building a new public facility for their community.

Peter and Libby both come to architecture from an art background, having received Bachelor of Fine Art degrees from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. We see the building context, whether raw earth, or urban setting as our canvas, and building materials as our palette. Our experience working in varied places and with a wide range of building types has exposed us to almost all types of construction, from historic mortise and tenon wood frame construction on dry laid stone foundation, to modern steel, glass and concrete. We seek to find the best quality and most appropriate materials that budget will allow, and execute their application in a way that will bring delight.

We value our environment, both the natural settings and the well constructed precedents which we are so fortunate to have in this part of the world. We aim to build on the best of these traditions, while being open to new paradigms. We aim to create architecture that establishes a relationship in the world that is respectful of neighbors and the earth through sustainable practices.