George de Brigard, AIA

Since joining RAMSA in 2006, George de Brigard has served as project manager and project architect on the firm's academic commissions, translating the priorities of administrators, faculty, and donors into designs and schedules that institutions can build. He believes that the most productive thing a new academic building can do is create adjacencies the org chart never would—the faculty office next to the seminar room, the lab next to the commons, the program that did not know it had a neighbor. 

The throughline across his recent work is synthesis: programs that grew up apart, brought together under one roof and one design. At Villanova University, Drosdick Hall—a 150,000-square-foot, $125 million expansion—consolidated the College of Engineering's scattered departments into a single Collegiate Gothic Revival building, completed in 2024. At The Ohio State University, the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center paired a 120,000-square-foot renovation of Hamilton Hall with a new 100,000-square-foot building, completed in 2024, to unite medicine, dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, public health, and veterinary medicine on one campus. Virginia Tech's Data and Decision Sciences Building (115,600 square feet, completed 2023) and Colgate University's Olin Hall follow the same logic.  

Earlier in his career, George served as a designer on Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, and Clinical Wing at Harvard Law School; the Courtyard Pavilions project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; two residential colleges at Yale University; and Stephen A. Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University, where he received the AIA Henry Adams Medal.  

George is a registered architect in the State of New York and a LEED Accredited professional.