The Galante Architecture Studio, Inc.

The Galante Architecture Studio is a LEED-accredited design firm in Harvard Square offering architecture, planning, adaptive reuse, historic preservation and design services. Its work ranges from boutique design projects to adaptive reuse planning, along with new buildings, additions and corporate interiors. The studio’s design philosophy is to distill a building to its essential programmatic components so that it is expressed in its clearest form.

Principal Theodore Galante founded the firm in 1997 after ten years as a project architect and architect’s site representative. New England’s historic built environment shapes much of the work, which includes sensitive interventions in buildings on the National Register of Historic Places and collaboration with local and state historic commissions. The firm has completed public, institutional, commercial and residential projects, and some have been published in national magazines.

What to Know

• The firm’s cost estimates typically fall within about 5 percent of actual costs.
• Its broad knowledge of construction methods helps keep projects on time and on budget.
• The studio is equipped with computer-aided design systems.