Who We Are
A Source of New Ideas for Positive Change
FCA is a full-service architectural and design firm. Employing a rigorously collaborative process between ourselves and our clients, we define and create resonant spaces uniquely suited to the needs of those who use them.
We design buildings and spaces that enhance our clients’ lives.
Offices
New York
New Haven Philadelphia Orlando Experience
35% of staff has 20+ years of experience.
Stability
90% revenue is from repeat clients.
Staff
150+
Our Guiding Principles
People
We design spaces for all, through an inclusive process, tailored to align with the unique culture of each client.
Place
We create environments that elevate the human experience through a deep “sense of place,” using holistic, empathetic design.
Our Services
Planet
We practice environmental responsibility, through innovative, sustainable strategies.
Process
We live a highly collaborative journey through imaginative and inspiring design.
Prosperity
We create value for our clients and communities to thrive and succeed.
How We Work
For 70 years, FCA has passionately created educational facilities that enliven the collective search for knowledge and helped elevate academic institutions as a whole.
We challenge ourselves and others to think outside the box to find creative solutions which are strategic and cost-effective, balancing up-front investment with long-term maintenance and lifecycle costs.
Our reputation for exceeding expectations is built on a collaborative culture. We bring design and highly specialized consultants together to create a multi-functional team supporting shared knowledge, problem solving, learning, and risk taking. Our environment fosters openness, where individuals feel valued, heard, and aligned with a broader mission, leading to enhanced creativity and innovation.
Visioning & Consensus Building
Our visioning approach creates a robust guide for our projects. The process is meaningful and fun. We engage our clients to illuminate opportunities that inspire project design from its earliest stages.
We start with unique workshops designed to understand your organization’s mission and vision. Giving everyone a voice, we gather all stakeholders to unearth valuable impressions of individual and shared experiences. We ask questions, challenge each other, and drill down to the essence of what we are creating. What we learn in workshops is supplemented by surveys, site tours, and interviews. Through these interactions, the blending of goals and priorities develops, evolves, and ultimately forms a collective, cohesive plan that is rigorous, insightful, and forward-thinking.
Technical Expertise
FCA has amassed decades of experience designing and renovating specialized, technology-forward spaces in the higher education, science-tech, and healthcare sectors. Our experience with academic spaces includes a wide array of research and teaching labs, makerspaces, live broadcast studios, teaching auditoriums, and e-sports laboratories, among others. Our processes and internal controls ensure meticulous attention to detail and effective management of consultant coordination, all while remaining streamlined to deliver projects on budget and on schedule.
Contextual Design
A single project can have an exponential effect if it draws upon existing campus forces of both architecture and program. FCA is sensitive to a building’s harmonious relationship to its surroundings, including its physical landscape, cultural history, and social context. We consider the integration of existing materials, motifs, and palettes to ensure additions and new buildings are at-home in the campus environment. Through both renovations and new construction, we strive to honor the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural traditions of our clients, while supporting the evolution and advancement of those core values.
Art Integration
Art integration is the seamless blending of architecture, art, and storytelling. We have developed a broad range of methods for enhancing architecture while expressing unique dimensions of
your mission. Artwork that brings meaning to the project is carefully considered at the outset, developed with the client and users, and is integrated thoroughly with the architecture.
Integrated artwork, whether bold or modest in scope, can have significant impact on the overall quality of the building. By incorporating art into architecture, we create a resonance that binds people together, reminds the academic community of its true purpose, and inspires all to be their best selves.
Sustainability
FCA believes in a holistic and comprehensive sustainable design strategy prioritizing project compatibility with the natural environment. Through a balance of technology and multidisciplinary thinking,
we create designs that positively impact communities –socially, economically, and ecologically.
Successful sustainable development results from a holistic approach to planning, designing, and building. We bring the entire design team in early in the process, and begin with an integrative goal setting session. Our approach responds to context, end users, and the integrated nature of building systems. Recognizing the importance of looking beyond each individual factor to how the systems interact, we create a clear, achievable plan for sustainablility.
Personalized Service
With just over 150 professionals, FCA provides customized service with a deep bench of passionate experts in design, technical applications, interiors, documentation, and sustainability. Since our founding, we have committed to leading every project with a principal, ensuring our internal team is well matched based on expertise and availability, and thoughtfully planning and selecting our consulting partners for each specific project scope. With personalized care and trust, we design buildings and spaces that enhance our clients’ lives.
University of Rochester
Saunders Research Building
Rochester, NY
190,000 SF
University of Connecticut
Neag School of Education’s
Gentry Building & Center for Undergraduate Education
Storrs, CT
143,000 SF
Boston College
Carroll School of Management, Fulton Hall
Chestnut Hill, MA
120,000 SF
Southern Connecticut State University
Health and Human Services Building
New Haven, CT 94,750 SF
Rochester Institute of Technology
Institute Hall
Rochester, NY
83,000 SF
University of Connecticut Agriculture Bio-Science Complex
Storrs, CT
76,000 SF
University of New Haven
Bergami Center for Science, Technology, & Innovation
New Haven, CT
45,500 SF
St. Luke’s University with Temple University Graduate Medical Education Expansion
Easton, PA 20,000 SF
Hackensack Meridian Health
Seton Hall School of Medicine
Nutley, NJ
240,000 SF
Virginia Tech
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Expansion
Roanoke, VA
140,000 SF
Integrated Science and Technology Center
West Haven, CT
65,000 SF
New Haven, CT 64,000
Yale University School of Medicine
Child Study Center
New Haven, CT
55,000 SF
Columbia University
Institute of Comparative Medicine Vivarium Modernization
New York, NY
34,000 SF
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
26,500 SF
Columbia University Medical Center
William Black Building Renovations
New York, NY 24,000 SF
Princeton University
Moffett Hall & Engineering Quad Laboratory Renovations
Princeton, NJ 15,000 SF
Yale University
West Campus Imaging Core
West Haven, CT
7,200 SF
Quinnipiac University
Center for Communications and Engineering
Hamden, CT
6,450 SF
Quantum Computing Labs - Multiple Projects
New Haven, CT
3,500 SF
Winchester Building Aquatics Renovation
New Haven, CT
2,160 SF
Yale University
Department of Geology & Geophysics Clean Lab
New Haven, CT
1,300 SF
Brooklyn, NY
City College of New York Campus Master Plan New York, NY
City University of New York
North Hall Redevelopment Plan
New York, NY
