About
GF Architecture offers full-service custom residential and light commercial architectural design for clients throughout eastern Massachusetts –including Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket –and Rhode Island. Founded by Gerrit Frase in 2012, GF Architecture quickly established a reputation for architectural expertise and exceptional customer service. The firm’s collaborative approach ensures its architectural solutions truly match the unique size, shape, material needs and budget requirements of each and every project.
GF Architecture offers complete architectural design services. Scope of services is refined to the requirements of each project. In addition to architectural services, the firm also provides site analysis and property planning consulting.
Mission
At GF Architecture, the focus is developing “creative solutions to enrich your life.” It is a self explanatory statement that places two essential goals as priority with every project commissioned. Developing client centered solutions instilled with a high degree of design creativity.
Bio – Gerrit Frase, AIA, BSA
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, the son of an Art Professor at George Peabody College, Gerrit Frase spent his youth pursuing many creative endeavors from building forts and tree houses to model making, drawing, ceramics, and photography. Gerrit’s grandparents lived in southern Wisconsin a few miles from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin. Visiting Wright’s homestead was a summertime occurrence in his youth raising his awareness of creativity inherent in the art of architecture.
Gerrit Frase earned a Master of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. As a young practitioner, he spent ten years in internship and architecture positions at noted Boston architectural firms including Ellenzweig Associates, Cannon Design-Boston, Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott building a well rounded architectural resume of experience and training.
Prior to launching GF Architecture in 2012, he worked for 14 years with Hutker Architects, one of the most highly-regarded custom residential architecture firms in New England. While there, Gerrit rose to the level of Associate. He enjoyed a leadership role in project design, staff management and project management, as well as collaborating in the development of the sustainability direction for the office.
A Massachusetts-registered architect since 1990, Gerrit Frase prides himself on the ability to bring the wide range of skills and experience to the visioning and communication of architectural solutions.
Gerrit lives with his wife and son in Falmouth, and if he’s not in the office or spending time with his family, he’s enjoys the challenge of saltwater fly fishing.
Philosophy
For Gerrit, architecture is a collaborative process where a project team is built around each client uniquely suited to the project demand. It’s about finding creative solutions tailored to the unique needs of each client. When he designs, Gerrit taps his experience and creative skills to nurture the the idea into concept. As projects develop, he brings his knowledge of the rich history and nuances of New England architecture and landscape; his love of material and craft; the value created by focused implementation of innovation and technology, and of course, a respect and appreciation for New England’s climate with in the realm of long term design solutions.