Life unfolds in a stream of people, beliefs and events. The places we inhabit embody the spirit of our experiences while honoring a connection to the natural environment. Designing spirit-filled places, Greif Architects | Living Architecture is passionate about architecture as an expressive art that serves the needs and desires of its inhabitants.
We began the practice in 1991-now a full-service design firm with a portfolio of residential, commercial, and institutional work. I come from a family of builders and architects. My grandfather, a builder, also had an architectural license issued in Chicago in the 1920s. My father built houses in Washington and Idaho for fifty years.
Growing up on job sites I developed a sense of how an architect can help and also hinder a successful project, in what they give to a builder to build from, and then help problem solve. I was born in Germany and raised in Cottonwood, Idaho. Even though I was too young to remember my German beginnings, being born there is significant to who I am.
We began the practice in 1991-now a full-service design firm with a portfolio of residential, commercial, and institutional work. I come from a family of builders and architects. My grandfather, a builder, also had an architectural license issued in Chicago in the 1920s. My father built houses in Washington and Idaho for fifty years.
Growing up on job sites I developed a sense of how an architect can help and also hinder a successful project, in what they give to a builder to build from, and then help problem solve. I was born in Germany and raised in Cottonwood, Idaho. Even though I was too young to remember my German beginnings, being born there is significant to who I am.
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A client of ours once compared our firm to their favorite restaurant in France. At that restaurant there are no menus. The chef comes out to each table and talks with each patron to decide what best to prepare for them, that would amaze them, in being right for the occasion and affordable. Since 1991 we have specialized in custom designed architecture.
The ideal of every Waldorf School is to create a sacred place, grounding the child within human experiences of living life alive in an interconnected world environment, which extends above and below the physical plane of everyday existence. One could say that a Waldorf School is designed from the grass roots up, and a hierarchy of.
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Gay G.
Aug 20, 2021
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Joseph Greif is a lovely human being and a wonderful architect. He took over my major remodel from an architect who cared only about squeezing the most money out of the project and asserting total control. Her ultramodern design sensibility was too cold and angular for the house; being uninspired by the project, she delivered plans that were boring and unimaginative. Joseph changed all that. I wanted the house to have curves and elements borrowed from the Art Deco movement. He delivered all that and more. His design for the front room in the second story addition includes a custom curved window
