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David Andreozzi Named to GSA’s National Registry of Peer Professionals
The founder of Andreozzi Architecture has been appointed to the GSA's Design Excellence Program, a team of some of the country's top designers and architects.
Last month, David Andreozzi of Andreozzi Architecture was nominated and appointed to the General Service Administration's (GSA) National Registry of Peer Professionals, a facet of the Design Excellence Program.
The registry comprises public sector individuals who represent some of the country's top designers and architects. They assist the GSA with the quality of the country's federal built environment. This group of distinguished professionals helps the GSA leverage the skill of the country's most qualified designers and artists to develop safe, durable, efficient, and attractive buildings.
David Andreozzi, Architect
Currently the president of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), Andreozzi is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. The son of a second-generation contractor and interior designer, he grew up immersed in the building arts and has spearheaded his Rhode Island-based firm, Andreozzi Architecture, since 1988.
Andreozzi's appointment to the National Registry of Peer Professionals is the newest stop on his path of professional philanthropy and stewardship — a path that has also included leadership with CORA (Congress of Residential Architecture) and the AIA. "I love working in teams, I love creating teams, I love empowering those teams to make changes that one single person can’t make alone," says Andreozzi.
"Too many people lead groups as benevolent dictators… that is not the where great change happens," he says. "It happens with unification — by listening and being open minded and respective to other people’s opinions."
His work with teams and in professional philanthropy means his career is pointing toward "something bigger," he says, than just individual projects. Government buildings are exactly where this "something bigger" comes into play.
"Public government projects are functional buildings, but they are also symbols of our country and should reflect that underlying ethos," says Andreozzi. "They must do so in order to be loved by future generations, and in so, be long lived, resilient by DNA of their design."
GSA's Design Excellence Program and the National Registry of Peer Professionals
The GSA established their Design Excellence Program in 1994 in order to attract the country's top design talent for federal projects. Peers are generally appointed on a biennial basis by the Public Buildings Service (PBS) commissioner, upon the recommendation of GSA’s chief architect, and include architects, engineers, designers, public arts administrators, conservationists, landscape architects, preservationists, urban planners, and construction professionals from around the country.
The peers are asked to participate in the design excellence process at two phases: during architect or engineer selection for new projects, and during conceptual design review. One peer typically helps interview and select the architect and/or engineer for new project contracts. Then, two additional peers help oversee the design development of the project.
Andreozzi's favorite GSA project to date? The U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in Tuscaloosa, AL, designed by HBRA in 2012 and recently renamed the Richard Shelby Federal Building. Its design is timeless, he says, and it's an example of the "classical, traditional forms upon which our country formed its original branding."
