studio d'ARC

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, studio d’ARC architects has developed a body of high quality work that incorporates our client’s aspirations with our abilities to achieve spatial clarity, while developing unique construction methodologies that elaborate the constructional techniques each region has to offer.

To pursue architecture that goes beyond the conventional goals of service and product, the firm operates on the belief that all projects can be important works of architecture, regardless of scale or budget.

After many years of academic training and professional experience both in the US and abroad, Gerard Damiani established studio d'ARC architects {SDA} in 1996 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an architect's collaborative to pursue the union of architectural ideas with the craft of building. The mission of the practice continues to be one of creating quality architectural projects which understand and celebrate both our post-industrial and agrarian context; one of history, unique building typologies, topography, as well as the present and future cultural context, the urgent need for sustainable thinking and our own building trades and traditions. By analyzing these conditions, both physical and cultural, their work strives to be thoughtful, well-considered and intrinsically linked to its place by creating architectural solutions that go beyond mere stylistic form-making or pragmatic problem-solving.