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Tristram Walker Metcalfe lll I began my career building models of transportation and then entering Architectural school after considering Aeronautical Engineering and Industrial Design, but I was most attracted to the more creative variety in the Architectural Design of human built environments. A few years after graduating I was asked to teach 2nd year Architectural Design but after a year teaching I choose to practice in the field. I had two partnerships, ending in the decade pattern of real estate recessions and have been practicing with Associates now for my recent 22 years thru two more recessions that we are now working beyond. My focus in Architecture has followed the demand in renovations and I have great interest in the historic values of the built environment. I aspire to excel also in Modern Design even though limited public awareness of its values has lowered demand for it. I have spent some time involved in invention mainly due to the inspiration it offers into the problem solving of design solutions for human needs. born: in Queens NYC, NY 1943 attended: Syracuse University School of Architecture and Syracuse University Graduate School of Architecture licenses: Connecticut Architectural Registration, Massachusetts Architectural Registration, New York State Architectural Registration, National Council of Architectural Registration Board Certification, founded: Metcalfe Associates 1989, Charged Motion Inc 2003 loves: the evolution of machines from Bikes to Boats, Cars and Aircraft

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EDUCATION 1967 - 68 Syracuse University Graduate School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY
Graduate School Assistantship teaching internship invitation
Created Photography Lab
1961 – 67 Syracuse University School of Architecture
Hudson River Museum Addition, Yonkers, N.Y. Thesis Design Study
B.ARCH. degree

LICENSES
1989 Connecticut Architectural Registration #6992
1982 Massachusetts Architectural Registration #5393
1982 National Council of Architectural Registration Board Certification #26981
1972 New York Architectural Registration #11079



1989-Present Principal of Metcalfe Associates, 142 Main St., Northampton, Mass
2003–Present Charged Motion Inc, 142 Main St., Northampton, Mass.
* This project is part of my practice as a partnership with Dr. W.T. Cardwell Jr., in a company
that is researching and developing a patented new technology for Transportation. We have
discovered an efficient form of propulsion using only electricity to move air. It directly utilizes the
Electro-Static-Force with Electrons from fuel cells. Our technology avoids the inefficiencies of
combustion and its waste, which comes from destructively releasing the very same E-S-F from
fuels for motive power. Our technology is simply charged air ions moved by an electric field.
Once it is developed it will create no waste, very little heat, no particulate or sound pollution while
offering unheard of improvements over combustion in transportation.
List of all Commercial, Municipal and Institutional Projects only - Private residences have been removed
2010
• REO Living, Conz St, Northampton, Mass. This is a reuse of an old brick 2 story REO Speedwagon dealership into 4 to 8 unique urban apartments with garden roof decks.
• Karma Café, 48 Main St, Northampton, Mass. 4 story complete structural reconstruction and renovation into Juice Bar, Café, Restaurant, Store, Health Classes.
• Self Serv Exercise, 99 Main ST, Haydenville, Mass. Renovate an existing kennel in an Animal Hospital into a separate self service exercise business.
• ZebuhrHouse (ZH2), Nasha NH, a new project concept of twin towers creating a 36 story vertical village of 600 living units from small studios at $150,000 to 6000 sf million dollar units. Similar to ZH3 (2009) it will be off the grid, turning land from sprawl into parks. It will handle its own water, energy and wastes. The common village space is from commercial, thru assembly to parks with plants growing everywhere possible to inspire the creative mind like many urban environments do better than do solitary rural environments.
• Pioneer Valley Manor, Greenfield, Mass. A Bed & Breakfast which is being converted from a nursing home. The primary project is complete renovation of finishes with code review and life safety access egress electrical work.

• 2009
• Nine Mountain Retreats Bed & Breakfast Plainfield, Mass; a code review for renovation to bring up to code of an operating incomplete construction in a non conforming R-1 use.
• Montague Performing Arts Center Turners Falls, Mass; the restoration an preservation of an historic church and its rectory rehabilitated for a music venue with 3 restaurants and a Bed and Breakfast lodging facility of 9 Bed rooms in the rectory addition. The Church will have a large restaurant and hold the main kitchen to serve 3 dining locations.
• Zebuhr House (Z3H) Nashua, NH; Design of a 500 unit condominium in a 30 story ‘vertical village’. It will be engineered to use zero grid energy by utilizing solar and vertical axis wind turbines with bio waste electric generation. It will produce zero waste to leave the site recycling or co-generating with it. It will allow all undeveloped land nearby to create zero sprawl. This open land will become part of the project by turning its development rights into a preservation conservancy and then also create a natural park preserve network for pedestrians, bikes and alternative electric vehicle commuting transportation.
• Round House ART in Northampton; the design of two historic gas works buildings to become an Arts center into public space as a land trust conservancy. To create 3 Performance & Art gallery venues and a Café, offices, shops and a rear park creating public access from a bus station with a wheelchair access ramp of 20 feet vertical rise into a park in the center of the town thus connecting all points of the compass to the city core.
• The Fix, 30 Crafts Ave Northampton, Mass, reconstruction of original building facades with new aesthetics & accessibility renovating the interior in a change of use to body rehabilitation. • Swift River Institute Turners Falls, Ma. a 14 building campus for a Media Production and Teaching facility planned to restore 220,00 sqft of a 150 year old paper mill rehabilitated into a 21st century ‘digital mill’. It is to have multi use; restaurants, museums, dorms, hotel rooms, conference, exposition spaces performance and sound stages.
• David Ruggles Center for Early Florence History & Underground Railroad Studies, Florence, Mass. The restoration of an 1850s house plus 3 added live/work condominiums in a new rear barn structure to help support the museum site.

• 2008
• R. Michelson Gallery, 132 Main St, Northampton, Mass, window display additions
• Vertical Axis Wind Turbine research grant application into architectural integration • A.P.E. Window Gallery, 126 Main St., Northampton, Mass, 5 level building renovations, including the street façade and space into gallery and revising occupancies and egress.
• Paradise Copies, Conz St, Northampton, Mass, renovation of a block bank into copy center with restored brick 15 Conz St. into offices. Phase two is to restore the 3 story brick cigar factory into condominium residences.

• 2007
• James B Winston Law offices & residence, Main St, Northampton, Mass
• Family Veterinary Center, Haydenville, Mass, addition study only
• River Shark restaurant Amherst, Mass, expansion into new space,
• West Cummington Church & Parsonage West Cummington, Ma, accessibility ramp & steps
• Hatfield Feed & Grain, renovation of barn into mercantile, Hatfield, Mass

• 2006
• American Benefits, office expansion, Bay State, Mass.
• Cornucopia foods market redesign, Thorne’s market place Northampton, Mass
• The Dirty Truth, restaurant, Northampton, Mass.
• Lorraine’s restaurant , second floor addition, Provincetown, Mass.

• 2005
• The Old Mill Bed & Breakfast, Hatfield. Mass.
• New England Center for Cosmetology & Esthetics, Northampton, Mass
• W.F. Pratt House move historic building & renovation, Northampton, Mass
• Walnut Street Apartments Northampton, Mass
• Old School Commons Main entrance addition to Sheehan Building
• Blue Moon Market and Café EastWorks Building, Easthampton. Mass

• 2004
• Aditus renovation of existing 8000 sf industrial bldg. Into Business & teaching use.
* Asian Market Cafe renovation of existing building, Hadley, Mass.
* Artisan Gallery renovate existing Main St space
* Office Building new building, with Dr Cordes offices 6000 sf, Enfield, CT
* 25 Main St gut rehab of top 3 stories of India Palace building, Northampton, Mass

* 2004
* Affordable housing Turkey Hill Rd, Northampton, Mass.
* Brookfield Farm (Co-op) reconstruction and addition, Amherst, Mass.
* Tofu, New Restaurant 2 story renovation, exterior awning patio, Northampton, Mass.
* Family Golf Center, New building, Offices renovation, & Pavilion, Hadley, Mass.
* Bramble Hill Farm, Store front and freezer / cooler building, Amherst, Mass.
* Free to Move health retreat Windsor, Mass.
* Best Western addition, Pool, 20 guest room 21,000 sf addition, Northampton, Mass.

* 2003
* Ann Marie Moggio Condominiums retail/offices, Northampton, Mass.
* Institute for Musical Arts additions & renovations, Goshen Mass.
* Bramble Hill Farm Amherst Ma., Sheep barn lam pole & elliptic trusses

* 2002
* Plainfield Town Hall kitchen renovations, Plainfield, Mass.
* Bicycle Pavilion Museum feasibility study, @ DEM’s Great Falls Discovery Center.
* Museum Addition Historic Northampton, Preliminary design 20,000+ sq ft addition
* Bramble Hill Farm Amherst Ma., Curved arch truss barn

* 2001
* Elks Building downtown Northampton, Historic rehab 25,000 sq ft into mixed uses Total renovation 4 use groups 5 levels in 100 year old structure.
* Great Falls Discovery Center Mass DEM & US Fish& Wildlife, Turners Falls, Mass.

* 2000
* Shaw Memorial Library Addition Plainfield, Mass. 4300 sq ft 2 + story addition Guild Art Center downtown Northampton, facade renovation & public walk though.
* Plainfield Town Hall site parking, entrance vestibule and kitchen renovation.
* 1999

* Chesterfield Town Hall new bathroom in historic building.
* U Mass Medical Center access renovations, Worcester, Mass; Elevator bath rooms gym and exercise facility renovations to 5 buildings on the teaching hospital’s campus.
* Historic Northampton Three buildings 18th and 19th Century façades and grounds restoration plus total museum continuity fence reconstruction's.

* 1998
* Chesterfield Grange Hall renovations bathrooms dining room kitchen & platform lift.
* U Mass Medical Center Worcester; School, Library & Basic Sciences in teaching Hospital, plus Parking Garage and Power Plant buildings; AAB code access renovations to exercise rooms, toilets, and passenger & freight elevators study.

* 1997
* Chapin Mansion Holyoke, Ma preservation & renovations 15 unit veteran's housing.
* Northampton Community Music Center conversion from old 3 story school building.
* Red Carpet Inn 2 story addition.
* Mount Greylock State Park 1933 Memorial Tower & Bascom Lodge accessibility.

* 1996
* Cummington Community House platform lift in Auditorium.
* Plainfield Hathaway Hall new entrance addition, bathrooms & hall renovations.

• 1995
• Valley Ingelside Center offices & retail; additions and exterior & interior renovations
* Western Massachusetts Hospital, Westfield, Mass; AAB access to passenger elevators.

* 1994
* Mass. State Exposition Building entrances, ramps, lobby and bathrooms.
* Northampton City Hall new elevator, main entrance & sidewalks, lobby & Bathrooms.

* 1993
* Plainfield Town Hall platform lift, entry & bathrooms renovation.

* 1992
* Plainfield Town Offices / Library & Fire House accessibility study.
* Clarke School for the Deaf Presidents residence, brick restoration, N’ton, Mass

* 1991
* Words and Pictures Museum historic Round House, code & controlled construction.
* Beyond Words four story Main St. building altered into a book store and offices.
* 1990

* Woolworths building conversion to four new facades & spaces.
* LaFiorentina Bakery and cafe renovation.
* Inn at Northampton hotel interior pool code separation screen & restaurant projects.
• Several Office interiors, New Residences and Residential Renovations

1981-1989 Metcalfe-Thorne Inc., 150 Main St. Northampton, Mass;
Partnership with Brinkley Thorne and Stephen Jablonski AIA, (14 employee staff)
* Hotel Northampton Design and supervision of three additions
* 4th & 5th flr Hotel additions, 5 story addition & 6th floor construction documents.
* Interiors of Hotel Northampton (rooms, restaurants, banquet, common areas).
* Design and supervision of office building, 2 Bay Road Hadley, Mass.
* Clarke School for the Deaf Administration Bldg. interiors, Northampton, Mass
* New Medical office building, 4 Bay Road Hadley, Mass
* Inn @ Northampton renovations to interiors, Northampton, Mass
* Pediatric Medical offices renovations Holyoke & Northampton, Mass
* 4 & 5 story urban building renovations, Holyoke, & Northampton, Mass

1977 - 1981 T.W. Metcalfe III, Architect, Windsor Pond, Plainfield, Mass
Sole proprietor & construction of a solar office/residence
* Wind energy study for Pulaski NY town municipal buildings
* Design contemporary solar residences, Massachusetts and New York states
* Several multi-story urban building rehabilitation projects, Boston and Pittsfield, Mass
* Design HUD housing, Adams, Mass
* 'Downtown' graphics, North Adams, Mass
* Architectural design consulting to other architects, Pittsfield and Boston, Mass
* Consultant; Schools, vet hospitals, residences, condominiums, commercial renovations

1973-1976 Metcalfe Architecture, Syracuse, NY
Sole Proprietor
* Design of contemporary solar and wind power residences
* Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY, Faculty Appointment
* Invited as visiting critic, second year Design Lab Instructor
* School addition, Dexterville, NY

1971-1973 Doing Design, Syracuse, NY,
Partnership w. Luis S. Sierra, AIA
* Interior design, offices, banks, shops, malls, residences, Los Cobos Park, Puerto Rico
1967-1971 Macknight, Kirmmse, French & Sizing, Syracuse, NY,

Architectural internship for license registration following Graduate teaching internship.

• AIA Design of award Plattsburg NY sewage treatment facility, designed hospitals,
administration building, airport terminal, schools, apartments, housing, Etc.


RECOGNITION, AWARDS & PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUNTEER WORK
2011 Erastus Hopkins House preservation committee
2011 International Code membership
2011 Western Mass Tornado damage volunteer historic preservation consultation
2010 Northampton Design Forum committee for good urban design at the center of the city to improve design awareness of human aesthetic values and free access of common needs. This is too create a reason people will want to be there not simply a reason to harvest taxes.
2009 David Ruggles Center museum committee
2008 Northampton Design Forum Organizing Committee for “Design Northampton Week”
2008 David Ruggles Center for Early Florence History and Underground Railroad Studies.
Founding committee to create a museum and educational research center.
2008 Pulaski Park Citizen’s Redesign Committee RFP submission and presentation
2008 NHC Study Committee to save 225 Nonotuck Street a 1.5 story 1850s building being studied to find reuse of the demolition delay potential loss.
2008 Committee for Demolition Review Northampton Demolition Delay Ordinance
2008 Nonotuck Street History Project Committee
2007 Northampton Historical Commission, Awards, Sheehan Building entrance, N’ton, Mass
2007 Northampton Historical Commission, Awards, 32-34 Pleasant St entrance, N’ton, Mass
2006 Committee for Demolition Review Northampton Demolition Delay Ordinance
2005 Northampton Historical Commission, Awards, Hawley Building entrance, N’ton, Mass
2005 President of Charged Motion Design Incorporated
2004 Director Open-Source Speech Recognition Initiative handicapped-rights-focused director
2004 Northampton Historical Commission, Awards, 180 Main St, Northampton, Mass
2003 Ballot Referendum Old Main preservation, Northampton state hospital
2003 Wm. Fenno Pratt Cottage & Noah Parsons historic preservation public awareness
2002 Old Main , Conference Center & Paradise Parkway feasibility & Market Studies
2002 Museum Addition Design Committee chair, Historic Northampton
2001 www. SaveOldMain.org , Reuse Committee Chair, Northampton State Hospital
2001 Northampton Historical Commission, Annual Awards, renovation Guild Art 102 Main St.
2000 Holyoke Historical Commission, Annual Awards, restoration of Chapin Mansion
2000 NHC, Historic Preservation Awards, Restoration of 4 Historic Northampton Buildings
1999 Western Mass AIA, Executive Committee
1998 Western Mass AIA, project lead for Public Awareness of Built Environment
1997 Executive Committee, Historic Northampton
1996 Chairperson, Museum Committee, Historic Northampton
1995 Board of Directors (Trustees) Historic Northampton
1994 Preservation Award, NHC, Northampton City Hall access & renovations
1994 Northampton Historic Commission, Voting member
1993 Northampton Historical Commission, Awards Beyond Words Bookshop, N’ton Mass
1992 Award of Merit, NHC, Northampton Historic District Study Committee
1991 Northampton Historic Commission, Associate member
1990 Chairman, Northampton Historic District Study Committee
1989 Show of work at A.P.E. Limited Gallery, Northampton, Mass
1983 Show of work Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, Mass
1978 Merit Award, First Annual Innovations in Housing, Better Homes and Gardens, American
Plywood Association, and Progressive Architecture
1974 Design Award, New York State AIA at MKFS architects, for 4 concrete Plattsburg Sewage Treatment Plant buildings
1964 Fisher Body Craftsman Guild, 1st Place, Regional Automobile Design Award New York State
1963 Fisher Body Craftsman Guild, 1st Place, Regional Automobile Design Award New York State


s PUBLICATIONS [reported in]
The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, 2005 p. 100, 101, 317
Back Row, Back ward The Redevelopment of Northampton State Hospital, July 2005
Home & Garden & Real Estate, Sunday Republican, cover story, Dec. 30, 2001,
WIRED, 8.07, July 2000 p. 68
The Rostoff Effect, The Rostoffs and Hotel Northampton 1986-1994.
Home Magazine, August 4,1994 cover article, p. 3
"&" an Extraordinary View, Fall 1993, p. 10
The Valley Optimist, Nov.-Dec. 1992, p. 5
Progressive Architecture, July 1990, p. 53
New England Monthly, March, 1985, p. 10
Wood Heat/85, 1985, p. 6
Yankee Magazine, August, 1983, p. 12v Progressive Architecture, USA, August, 1978, p. 70
People Magazine, March 19, 1984, "Main Street", p. 75
Progressive Architecture, USA, December, 1974, p. 44
Architectural Design, UK, March, 1975, p. 189
L'Architecture D'Aujourdhui, FR. #182, p. XXVII
Architectural Record, June 1975, NYS AIA award, Plattsburg STP p. 130



















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Tobias Bernecker

born: in east germany 1980

attended: tu-berlin, liverpool university and umass amherst

master of architecture since may 2009

awarded: charles anthony minoprio prize in architecture 2005,

exhibited: 2D3D-2: Drawing in the Post-Digital Age, wuho.org

influences: mvrdv, rudy ricciotti, lacaton & vassall, r&sie and all those glossy arch mags

loves: black sharpies, my vintage road bike and my nikon f-301

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Richard Dobrowski

A lifetime resident of Western Massachusetts, Richard has diversified experience in art and architecture production, and Historic research related to both disciplines. He began his formal education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, wherein his concentrations were based in art as process and photography. Graduating with his Batchelor degree in Art & Architectural History in 2004, Richard spent the following two years as an Office Services Coordinator at the firm of Hunt Hale Jones Architects, San Francisco, where he gained practical insights into some of the intricacies of a design firm's operation. He subsequently undertook and completed his graduate studies in studio architecture with an M.Arch. degree in 2010 at the school of his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His focus on and reverence for modernism and sustainable design are frequently referenced from his period of study in Scandinavia and through his progressive Western Massachusetts colleagues, which drive his original designs and their philosophy.



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Tristram Walker Metcalfe

T. Walker Metcalfe grew up in Western Massachusetts living in and around the Pioneer Valley. Inspired by his father Tristram, Walker’s experience in the study of architecture began in earnest during high school with an emphasis in art and drafting courses. In 2003 he attended the Architecture & Design program of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Throughout the seven years of his formal architecture study and since his graduation in 2010 with a Master of Architecture degree, Walker has enjoyed working in the professional fields of both construction and design with a variety of firms. Additionally, Walker received his Permaculture Design certification in 2009. He is interested in energy efficiency, edible landscaping and the relationships between buildings, inhabitants and the natural environment.

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Misson Statement

This office has one principal architect and a staff of three Associates who have joined the firm with their Masters of Architecture degrees. The other ‘Associates’ are freelance consultants; engineers, architects, specialists environmentalists & draft persons who support the development of our design work on into construction documents. Our low overhead allows the ability to spend the important time of wide angle vision into design potential that can then be created into full construction documents.

Creative vision is the most important value of an architect. It adds the maximum high value from the best case design potential. It is this vision in design potential that too often is ignored or overlooked by developers who settle for less talented vision to rule the design of their developments. The highest value time for our client’s built end results is in the creative vision combined with over 40 years of professional practice experience.




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