Lawrence+Gomez Architects

Phil Lawrence grew up in the Chicago suburbs surrounded by many of the classics of American architecture. Throughout his teenage and college years he worked as a carpenter. He studied languages and architecture in the U.S. , Rome , and Florence . In 1989 Phil completed his Master's in Architecture from the University of Colorado . At the start of his professional life he worked for Cab Childress on projects including the Eagle County Court House.

During the decade of the nineties Phil was a Partner at Barker Rinker Seacat, a nationally acclaimed architectural firm specializing in public and institutional work. There, Phil was responsible for overseeing civic projects such as the highly praised Koelbel Arapahoe Library and the Denver Zoo's Gates Educational Center . He also designed and managed buildings at the Graland Country Day School and the Boulder Housing's Woodlands single parent housing.

Then, after a couple of years as a stay-at-home parent, Phil founded the company that became Lawrence + Gómez Architects.

Phil has received many honors including an AIA Denver Research award for co-founding The Sustainable Design Resource Guide for the Rocky Mountain region. Currently he sits on the boards of directors of Habitat for Humanity (Flatirons) and the Boulder Housing Authority.

Juana Gómez joined in 1999. She came from working at the highly regarded Klipp Architects where she had been in charge of projects such as Boulder Valley 's K-8 schools and housing at Adams State College. While at Klipp she also worked on health care facilities and the Denver Central Library with Michael Graves.

Previously Juana worked for Anthony Pellecchia, a Louis Kahn disciple, on several high-end residential and hospitality projects in Aspen , Nevada , Denver , and Telluride.

A native of Lima , Perú, Juana spent her first ten years immersed in the beauty of Inca masonry constructions, Spanish colonial rococo, and mid-century modern. The family then moved to Puerto Rico , her mother's homeland. Juana left that island to attend college at Yale University where she majored in architecture.

She came to the Rocky Mountain West after graduation to experience this exotic, wide open landscape which she now calls home. Juana spent her first three years here making a living as a framing carpenter building many residential and passive solar projects. She then studied for her master's in architecture at the University of Colorado at Denver .

The recipient of several travel grants, Juana researched the architecture of communist Eastern Europe, Maya ruins and site planning, and urban forms in Havana , Cuba . Other creative grants enabled her set designs for collaboration with dance theater. Juana has been adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado starting in 1991 to the present. She has taught design studio, drawing and graphics, presentation techniques, and color theory.