Lancaster / Pennsylvania / United States
We believe that good architecture is a balance between art and science, grace and precision. Our buildings arent just about creating a memorable image, but also ing strategic siting and design interventions to achieve light-filled interiors with intelligent, efficient organization-in short, spaces where people want to live and work. We enjoy the process as much as the result, and delight in bringing together the big picture and the small details to create something better and more useful than the client imagined. LeFevre Funk Architects is a woman-owned firm, founded in 2002 when M. Melanie LeFevre, AIA, LEED AP, and M. Steven Funk, AIA, partnered to create a practice with more than five decades of combined experience. Tammie B. Fitzpatrick, AIA, joined the practice in 2006 and became an Associate in 2009. We work in a rehabilitated historic building in the vibrant heart of downtown Lancaster, PA and our studio environment encourages critical discussion and the hands-on exploration of ideas. Creativity, collaboration, and technical rigor are values we share among ourselves and with our clients. LFA is rooted in a foundation of socially and economically conscious projects for a culturally diverse clientele. We understand community-based organizations and like helping them advance their mission. Yet weve cultivated long-standing partnerships with patrons in both the private and public sectors. Our work to date ranges from site consulting and mixed-use planning to a nightclub lounge interior and single-family homes, from affordable green communities to LEED-compliant campus housing, plus hospitality, transportation, education, and health care facilities. LFA takes deep pleasure in revitalizing historic structures of all types, giving an abandoned building encrusted with cobwebs new meaning for the future while reconnecting it with the community. Over the years, LFAs award-winning work has demonstrated a respect for materials and local context-environmental, cultural, historic-while maintaining a strong project identity. That clarity and purpose comes from putting our clients vision at the center of the design process. The results of these conversations are buildings that both inspire the people who use them and offer appropriate, cost-effective solutions to everyday problems.
