Who We Are and What We Do  

Charlie Lazor is the Principal and design team leader at Lazor/Office, founded in 2003.Charlie received his BA from Williams College and graduated from Yale School of Architecture in 1993. In 1996, after gaining experience at the offices of Gray Organschi Architecture and Roth & Moore Architects, he co-founded the award-winning furniture design company Blu Dot with the goal of making modern design more widely accessible. This is reflected in Lazor/Office's attention to detail and emphasis on how buildings are put together. The office design philosophy places primacy on “place making” - developing a sensitive, integrated architectural response to make the natural and the man made one, to experience site and space holistically. We begin with a rigorous study and analysis of your site’s specific composition: the obvious and the not so obvious, the views, the light, the breezes, the climate. We study and analyze your program; how you want to live, work, play. We investigate materials that are ecologically responsible, responsive to the site conditions, support your program and reflect who you are and your sensibility. We seek to synthesize all of this such that the outcome appears obvious, inevitable. Architecture is put into the service of making place, for us.