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[edit] Schamu Machowski Greco Architects
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Baltimore Office 1016 Morton Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Wheeling Office 14th & Chapline Street Suite 505 Wheeling, West Virginia 26003
[edit] HISTORY
1982 Walter Schamu & Associates is founded at 122 E. Churchill Street in Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood. The firm’s concentration is on residential design.
1984 The firm expands to 107 E. Preston Street, Baltimore, developing a focus on historic preservation, renovation, rehabilitation and adaptive use.
1987 Anthony Machowski, AIA and Peter Doo, AIA join the firm, creating Schamu Machowski Doo & Associates (SMDA Architects), adding research laboratory and institutional work, diversifying the firm’s capabilities and expanding in size to 20 employees. The office moves to a larger space at 1001 Cathedral Street, Baltimore.
1990 The firm opens a branch office in Wheeling, West Virginia, led by Victor Greco, AIA. The Wheeling office provides academic, healthcare, institutional, commercial and residential design for clients in West Virginia, western Maryland and Ohio.
1994 The Baltimore headquarters moves to 1016 Morton Street, a former carriage house in the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood.
2000 Victor Greco is named partner and the firm is renamed Schamu Machowski Greco Architects, Inc.
2004 SMG Architects establishes a Healthcare Design Studio.
2006 SMG Architects’ Healthcare Design Studio continues to expand. The firm continues its successful relationship with hospitals, and focuses on historic preservation, residential, commercial, educational, religious, hospitality, club, and senior living clients.
[edit] PEOPLE
Principles: Walter G. Schamu, FAIA President Walter is the president and founder of SMG Architects, and is responsible for the firm's historic, residential, religious and club projects. Walter is respected throughout the region for his expertise in historic architecture, and is the founder of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation. Walter's easy-going nature, sense of humor, and ability to recite poetry appropriate for any occasion make him a favorite of both clients and colleagues. Walter is a skilled watercolorist and accomplished horticulturist with a highly-publicized rooftop garden in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood where he lives with his wife, Nancy. Walter earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and served as an Engineering Officer in the U.S. Navy. He lectures extensively on historic architecture and creative adaptive use, and gives frequent architectural tours of Baltimore.
Anthony J. Machowski, AIA Vice President, Baltimore Office Tony joined SMG Architects in 1984 as a founding partner, and directs the firm's Laboratory Design Studio. In addition to creating laboratory spaces for the region's premier biomedical and academic communities, Tony works extensively in K-12 school design, and historic renovation. He is the firm's leading expert on construction administration, and is experienced at planning complex phased renovations. Known for his dry sense of humor and relaxed attitude, Tony is regarded as a friend by his staff and clients. He spends his free-time working on his 1950 Studebaker truck, and creating wood sculptures in his home workshop in Hunt Valley, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Kathryn. Tony earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Michigan, and regularly attends courses on advanced laboratory design.
Victor R. Greco, AIA Vice President, Wheeling Office Victor began his tenure with SMG Architects in 1987, and opened the firm's office in Wheeling, West Virginia three years later. Victor is the managing partner of the Wheeling office where he serves academic, institutional, commercial and residential clients. Victor's hands-on approach to each of his clients' projects has resulted in loyal, long-term relationships with some of the leading colleges and religious institutions in the region. An epicurean and exceptional cook, Victor treats the SMG staff to a culinary tour of Italy at the staff retreat held each year in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. A fly-fisherman, and avid Steelers fan, Victor is a mentor and friend to his staff, and highly regarded by his clients. He lives in Wheeling with his wife Isha, son Victor, and daughter Alexandra. Victor earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kentucky.[2]
== SERVICES ==
* Preservation / Adaptive Use * Institutional / Educational * Hospitality / Clubs * Residential * Multi-Residential * Commercial * Healthcare / Research
SMG Architects provides comprehensive architectural services, as well as feasibility studies, master planning, investigative reports and promotional drawings.
[edit] RECENT PUBLICITY
The New American Tavern Bon Appetit, January 2009
Sneak Peek: Spur Design Design * Sponge, June 2, 2008
Elmhurst announces major expansion The Wheeling News-Register, November 17, 2007
Tall order: The city's weirdest building gets a new life SMG Architects' adaptive use of the Bromo-Seltzer Tower The Urbanite, October 7, 2007
Work in progress: From vision to design Architect Chuck Patterson's renovations give old buildings a second lease on life The Baltimore Sun, September 30, 2007
Wheeling's Faces of the Future: Wendy Scatterday The Wheeling News-Register, July 29, 2007
Theater testing the boundaries of preservation The Baltimore Sun, June 18, 2007
Masons looking to sell their stone temple The Baltimore Sun, June 6, 2007
'A Fresh Face' For Wheeling The Intelligencer, Wheeling News-Register, March 3, 2007
City's 'Hotel Row' Growing One East Redwood to combine old, new Baltimore The Baltimore Sun, February 10, 2007
History in the Making While rehabbing a classic Stone Hill home, a local couple uncovers a piece of Baltimore's abolitionist past The Urbanite, February 2007
Former brewery site could become hotel SMG Architects designing hotel for Summit Associates Baltimore Business Journal, January 12, 2007 [3]
