Managing Partner, Handel Architects
Gary Handel FAIA is the founder and Managing Partner of Handel Architects. Since starting the practice in 1994, Gary has overseen its growth to a firm of over 200 architects, designers, and planners around the world.
Gary leads the firm’s direction by placing an emphasis on enriching the urban environment and improving the lives of people through positive urban design. His work has benefited cities throughout the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. He is a leader in sustainable building strategies, and recent work includes some of the largest and tallest Passive House buildings in the world.
Gary’s work has appeared in numerous publications nationally and internationally, and he has lectured extensively on how architecture can work to create positive urban and social change.
