mossArchitects

Moss Architects designed our dream home, helped us navigate city codes and requirements, and made the process enjoyable. I highly recommend the firm.

mossArchitects were a pleasure to work with! Andrew, Darren, Heather and team felt like family by the time our new home project was complete. They owned every piece of the project from beginning to end; from design, to recommending a top quality builder, to ultimately managing the whole construction effort for us. We've been through some pretty frustrating design and construction projects in the past. But this certainly wasn't one of those. They helped insure that the project was done on time and helped us balance all of the ideas that we had with what our budget would allow. In the end, we now come home (a year later) to a brilliantly designed modern home that we can't believe we are lucky enough to live in (and that ended up being named Pittsburgh Magazine's 2016 New Build Home of the Year)!

My wife and I have worked with Moss Architects on three projects: our home, plus our two restaurants. They exceeded expectations each time, resulting in spectacular, award-winning spaces. They're not just passionate professionals; they're good people. And we hope to work with them many times more.

Of all of the decisions involved in building our Pittsburgh home, choosing mossArchitects was the best decision we made. In fact, we subsequently hired them to design both of our restaurants, commercial projects they approached in the same thoughtful and personal way to deliver similarly comfortable, contemporary spaces. In our architect selection process, we found mossArchitects to be the most approachable, most engaging, and most willing to listen about our vision for a new home. They asked all the right questions, helping us arrive at a set of parameters to work with such as lifestyle preferences that helped us hone in on a building location, as well as room adjacencies that represented the spaces and circulation desired for our home. The team expressed a genuine interest in us and understanding our needs for the home of our dreams. They also clearly stood out in their approach to design. We were surprised to find that many architects injected incredibly formal processes and procedures into their method. By contrast, we shared with mossArchitects the desire for a more iterative approach, while still adhering to an overall development process consistent with AIA standards. We believed such flexibility absolutely critical—not only because that’s how we work, but also because we were entering the process long distance, via conference calls and emails. During the construction process, mossArchitects became our critical advocates and problem solvers. We couldn’t have asked for a better experience. Andrew and the rest of the team helped to make building our dream home the incredibly fun project that it should be. Their website says that the firm’s “design process begins and ends with the client: their dreams, values and goals.” We couldn’t agree more.

I've come to truly trust Andrew and his crew over the years. His architecture, ability to understand my projects, and deliver when he says we will are all fantastic.