Greg grew up in North Carolina and earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from North Carolina State University in 1983. Soon afterwards he moved to Seattle, Washington and earned a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Washington in 1989. While in graduate school Greg earned a scholarship for six months of travel and study in Norway. There he studied Wood Conservation and travelled the county visiting Norwegian Stave Churches built in the 11th and 12th centuries. It is in Norway Greg discovered his love for vernacular wooden architecture. 

During and after graduate school Greg worked for the National Park Service documenting and recording historic park structures in Mount Rainier National Park, designing trailhead and campground improvements in Rocky Mountain National Park, and designing new park housing, backcountry composting toilets, and rehabilitating historic park housing in Grand Canyon National Park. 

In 1996 Greg moved to Bellingham, Washington to start a design department for Cascade Joinery, a design build firm specializing in timber frame fabrication and installation. As their architect Greg designed over 200 timber frame homes and public structures in eleven western states including Alaska, Hawaii, and British Columbia. Here Greg developed a reputation for working with beautiful and challenging sites and received 6 Northwest Chapter AIA design awards. It was here Greg grew to understand the magic that can happen when architects and craftsmen collaborate.

Greg strives to work with a wide range of clients with beautiful sites and for whom good design matters. He maintains close relationships with builders and craftsmen that wish to successfully collaborate on meaningful projects. Greg enjoys the work and the community that forms when people collaborate to create.