Andrew Gould - Designer
Andrew studied Art History at Tufts University and the Arts and Crafts Movement at University College London. He has a master's degree in architecture from University of Pennsylvania. Andrew has seven years of experience designing and building traditional churches, houses, and urban neighborhoods. He is considered a leading expert in the liturgical arts, and frequently lectures and publishes on the subject. Furthermore, Andrew is highly skilled at detailing traditional buildings, and his buildings exhibit authenticity and beauty in every element. Andrew’s buildings are frequently mistaken for historic structures even by architects and builders. They feature elegant, historically accurate construction, such as solid masonry, mortised timber framing, traditionally trimmed windows and eaves, lime plaster or wood paneled interiors, and custom designed liturgical furnishings inspired by the best medieval examples.
Andrew is as much a craftsman as a designer. He frequently contributes to the actual construction of a building, carving stone capitals, building wooden doors, and welding iron chandeliers. His close interaction with the construction of a building gives him an exceptional knowledge of every detail of the process. Builders routinely express astonishment and gratitude at the thoughtfully considered construction sections in Andrew’s plans, which make for efficient and attractive work for the tradesmen.
Andrew has broad expertise, both academic and first-hand, in historical church architecture. His art history background included particular concentration in medieval architecture and the Gothic and Romanesque Revivals of the nineteenth century. Andrew has traveled extensively throughout Europe, especiallyItaly, Spain, and Turkey, studying the early-Christian basilicas that are the model for this project. He has absorbed the canon of medieval architecture as his own tradition, and commands the forms, proportions, and textures of that tradition as a natural and organic mode of design. He is not afraid to develop the ancient styles of architecture and adapt them to modern needs, and is able to do so while preserving the sacred ethos of the ancient churches.