Fisher ARCHitecture: ITALY 2022
This is Bea. For the second year in a row, Eric and I are spending two months working from Italy! We are living in the same place where we stayed last year, right above Lake Como. The place [...]
Thoughtful, Progressive, Contextual, And Healthy buildings
At Fisher ARCHitecture we focus on thoughtful, contextual, progressive, AND “healthy buildings”. The relevance of this field of studies has increased since the beginning of the pandemic. Yet, the [...]
Building Small, Building Better
On December 9, 2021 Bea and I spoke at the 2021 AIA Tri-State conference on the topic of “Building Small + Building Better”. Following our presentation, Robin Lobez, Director of [...]
Number One in Pittsburgh!
Guess who was just named “#1 Best Residential Architect in Pittsburgh“?! It starts with FISH… Thanks to Jack Cookson, Chief Editor at Home Builder Digest for the recognition! [...]
Protected: The Fisher ARCHitecture Design Process
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Your Home is Teaching Your Kids a Thing or Two
Childhood memories are very powerful. Even if you don’t remember the faces or the names of people, you should have at least some memories of the location where events took place. Places have a [...]
Creating Solutions For Our Difficult Times
As we have been quarantining and working from home like the rest of the world, Bea and I have been taking the time the time to think of how we - as architects - can help during this pandemic. Bea [...]
How Green Was Our Roof?
Having a Green Roof is the dream of many. It is also an ethical and sustainable architecture decision: Your home will be better insulated under a carpet of greenery. Adding a Green Roof will [...]
The importance of Light and Sight in Our Buildings
As millions of people around the world are asked to #stayhome, the dilemma for many is how to actually be healthy within the domestic walls. In this article we will focus in particular on the [...]
The House Next Door: Architects Eric Fisher and Bea Spolidoro design a life in Shadyside
Thanks so much to writer, Patricia Sheridan and photographer, Pam Panchak, for their fine documentation of the Fisher ARCHitecture home/office, and for their portrayal of the (ahem) couple that [...]
How Architecture Can Defend us from Germs, Bacteria, and Viruses like COVID-19
Our homes and work environments have a huge impact on our physical and psychological health and in the past few years a number of certifications and standards like the WELL Building Standard and [...]
Living in a Zoo of Our Own Making
On Monday February, 24, Fisher ARCHitecture had the opportunity to overlap with Craig Dykers from Snøhetta twice. In the early afternoon, the co-founder of the Norwegian Architecture firm joined [...]
Thinking Outside of the Zoning Box
Bea presented a new class on the opportunities that arise when we don’t consider Zoning as the destination of our design efforts, but rather the starting point.
The Brave Architect
Liz Ogbu from Studio O was the second speaker of the CMU School of Architecture Spring 2020 Lecture Series. To start at the end, her lecture culminated with a poem titled “Invitation to Brave [...]
Should Classical Architecture be Required?
Below is my note to Donald Trump responding to his administration’s efforts to require “classical architecture” for new federal buildings. This is my edited version of the [...]
The Unspeakable Shaking Ground
This is Bea’s writeup of Thursday night’s cool Philip Beesley lecture at Kresge Theater: On January, 23, 2020, the CMU School of Architecture kicked-off the Spring Lecture series with [...]
Parametric Design
So what does this image represent and how is it that we can build such a thing affordably? Here is the answer: You are looking at a side view of a ring designed with the parametric program, [...]
AIA Small Firm Celebration
Eighteen small architecture firms met at my Fisher ARCHitecture home/office in Shadyside the evening of Thursday, October 17 between 5:30 and 7:30. This was a chance to meet fellow small firm [...]
Collaboration In Architecture
I gave this lecture June 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University to a packed house of OSHER members at Carnegie Mellon University. In this talk I communicate my personal thoughts regarding [...]
2019 AIA Award: The River House
Fisher ARCHitecture’s River House project has just won an American Institute of Architecture (AIA) merit award at this years Design Pittsburgh celebration! We’re especially [...]
PKN33: Playground Design
This was a Pecha Kucha talk I gave with Harvard educated landscape architect, Jiayu Qin, the evening of September 17, 2019 at Alloy 26. Jiayu is a PA registered landscape architect working on [...]
Speech: “The 2019 AIA Conference on Architecture”
Here’s an excerpt from my June 4 lecture with Bea Spolidoro AIA at “The 2019 AIA Conference on Architecture” in Las Vegas. We talked about the advantages of adapting [...]