Actual-Size Architecture

Specialties

Natural lighting and connection to nature are my principal aesthetic specialties, and in my eyes, the most lasting gifts an architect can give to a client. My other passion is connecting our history with our lives today, in a historic-​modern fusion, the most lasting gift an architect can give to the city.

I design houses and additions, occasionally offices and galleries, and shortly, industrial and warehouse conversions.

Finding solutions that are both innovative and environmentally sensitive is routine. I do my best work when augmenting historic styles, not with outright mimicry, but with a historically-​reflective modernism.

History

Established in 1999.

Actual-​Size Architecture is a full-​service architectural firm from whom clients can expect individualized attention. Okay, that’s pretty much expected of a sole proprietorship. Still, the concept has been my ideal as an architect and hasn’t changed in my twelve years.

Meet the Business Owner

Geoffrey G.

Business Owner

Geof is an enthusiastic polymath who grew up in an Arlington, Virginia house by the renowned architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. He picked up a BArch from Virginia Tech, moved to San Francisco in 1990, and after working in the offices of Fernau+Hartman Architects, William Dutcher Architect, Webb Construction, Phil Mathews Architect, and Rupel Geiszler McLeod Architecture, started Actual-​Size Architecture, in 1999.