Turner Brooks Architect is an architectural firm dedicated to offering the highest quality design services for institutional, commercial, and residential projects. The work is known for its successful response to different site conditions, programs, and budgets. The emphasis is on innovative design and ecologically sound solutions.

A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, the principal Turner Brooks enjoys a national reputation for the excellence of his designs which have been widely published both in international architectural journals and in the popular press such as Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Digest 100 Architects (a special issue celebrating the world’s foremost architects), and Global Architecture. A monograph, Turner Brooks: Work, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 1995. He has been invited to lecture on his work throughout the United States and abroad. He has taught at the Yale School of Architecture since 1991 where he is currently a professor adjunct.

Turner Brooks’ office was started in Starksboro, Vermont in 1972. In the early stages the firm both designed and built a great number of residential and small institutional projects for local communities. As the work gained in volume and received recognition, the office expanded and moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1983. In 1996 the office was established in New Haven, Connecticut where the firm soon won the competition for Yale University's new boathouse on the Housatonic River. The firm is currently involved with institutional, public, and residential work in the New England states, New York, and Arizona.

The principals design and supervise all aspects of each project. The other members of the firm bring a wide variety of experience and expertise. Our long established relationships with outside consultants provides our clients with a complete range of related services to complement our own design capabilities. The firm's 'hands-on' origins is nourished and gives it a particularly good understanding of the reality of construction with the emphasis on thorough building documents and site supervision and close collaboration with building contractors.

Philosophy. We believe in solving the issues of the program and site to make buildings that both function well and exist as memorable places. Our designs seek to meet the needs and aspirations of the client while recognizing that special qualities of the site. It is the friction between program and site that makes a design begin to ‘percolate’ and take form.

We have found that the most successful projects to be those in which the client has fully participated in the evolution of the design. The architect's role consists of exploring the client's dreams and fantasies and translating them into the realm of the actual, so that their essence can be maintained within the world of budgetary and scheduling constraints.

We investigate several alternative solutions at the beginning of the design process. As a project develops, we use physical study models and computer renderings to explore the three-dimensional aspect of exterior forms and interior spaces.