FAIA, LEED AP
Franziska Amacher, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, WBE, has over 30 years of experience in design and project management.
After graduating with a MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design she worked for several firms, including Sert Jackson and Baumann Frey an award winning firm in Switzerland. She also worked independently as an Architect for residential projects and as developer for nine projects in her firm, Archimage. From 1991 to 1996 she was a principal in the firm Amacher Quinn. Since 1996 she has managed her own firm Amacher and Associates.
Throughout her career in her practice and as former Co-chair of COTE at the Boston Society of Architects and current Board Member of Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR.org), former board member of ARC-Peace, the Association for Public Transportation and as Trustee for the Riverbend Park Trust, Franziska promotes sustainable design practices to foster human and environmental health in her buildings and in her work to foster the quality of life for communities.
Her projects included the design of residential communities such as the first built cohousing community in the Boston area, as well as a 30 unit live/work artist community in a converted factory. Another prize-winning project was the conversion of a historic building on a main street to 8 affordable housing units and 3 commercial units. Some of her residential projects were filmed for TV shows. She has designed a number of energy efficient buildings, including net zero houses, a number of deep energy retrofits and planned several net zero mixed-use communities.
Franziska has taught sustainable architecture for several years at the Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Franziska has promoted health and education amongst communities. In 2008 she inspired a school to build a schoolyard garden. She designed it and another community garden and playground nearby. She co-produced & designed the site layout for the Boston Green Fest on Boston City Hall Plaza . In 2012 she redesigned Boston City Hall Plaza for the Foundation for a Green Future. As former teacher at Wentworth Institute of Technology and founding member of the Green City Team she was a key member of the four who to developed a redesign for Boston City Hall that is featured on the BASEA web site and was presented to the Boston City Council.
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