GLUCK+: Architects Who Build (w/ Thomas Gluck, Stacie Wong)

Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture and engineering industry are innovating through new business models and managerial techniques.

We’re chatting with Thomas Gluck and Stacie Wong of GLUCK+ about architects who build.

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Thomas Gluck and Stacie Wong are principals at GLUCK+. Named by Fast Company as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in architecture, GLUCK+ is recognized for Architect Led Design Build: single-source responsibility with architects leading the building process. For over 40 years, the practice has committed to pushing the boundaries of design with real-world expertise to craft bold and conceptually unique architecture. Most work is constructed by the firm. The firm was featured in Architectural Record “The New Master Builders,” The Architect’s Newspaper “Inside Architecture’s One-Stop Shop,” and Architect “Best Practices: Engaging in Architect Led Design Build.” The firm’s monograph The Modern Impulse: Peter L. Gluck and Partners was published in 2008.  

GLUCK+ works throughout the United States. Notable award-winning projects include Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, a public/private project for NYC Parks and Recreation and the educational non-profit, New York Junior Tennis & Learning; Bridge, a LEED Gold high-rise mixed-use development in Philadelphia’s Old City; The Stack, the first steel and concrete modular residential development in New York City and Pilkey Laboratory, a LEED Gold research facility for Duke University Marine Lab. The firm recently designed and built 145 Central Park North, a rare opportunity to add to the street wall surrounding New York City’s iconic Central Park, and ONStage at Kaufman Astoria Studios, the latest new building to complete George Kaufman’s vision for the historic film studios campus.  

Both Thomas and Stacie bring expertise in leading strategic planning, as well as stewarding the design and construction for a diverse portfolio spanning typologies and scales. Thomas received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. Stacie holds a BA in Architecture from University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

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