Schafer Buccellato Architects

          At Schafer Buccellato Architects, we believe that the virtues of old houses — their sense of history, their time-worn comfort, the way they sit on the land with an air of inevitability, their elegant proportions and details — can be achieved in a new house today. Whether focusing on new construction or historic house renovations and restorations, our award-winning firm takes the best of traditional architecture and translates it for the kind of connected, welcoming spaces that suit modern life.

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Gil Schafer Founder

Award-winning architect Gil Schafer is one of the country’s leading experts on contemporary classical architecture and one of the most sought-after residential architects working today. He is a member of Architectural Digest’s AD100, a winner of Veranda’s “Art of Design Award,” a recipient of the Arthur Ross Award for Architecture, and the subject of the recent Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, "Design in Mind: Unlocking the Mysteries of Place."

Gil holds a Master of Architecture from Yale and is the author of the bestselling books The Great American House, A Place to Call Home, and Home At Last. His work has also been widely published in the press and is included in over three dozen books on design. He opened his eponymous firm G. P. Schafer Architect in 2002 and renamed the firm Schafer Buccellato Architects in the fall of 2023.

Gil serves on the Yale School of Architecture Dean’s Council and the board of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and was president and then chairman of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, the nation’s leading resource for the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts, for over a decade. When he’s not traveling for work, he divides his time with his family between New York City, the Hudson Valley, and Maine.