Putnam & Associates is a Boston-based architecture and design firm founded in 1975 by Joseph Henry “Po”Putnam AIA, CSI. We are an award winning, energetic, creative team of designers serving private, public and institutional clients throughout New England.
The best of New England’s architecture is noted for its economy of means, its understanding of tradition, its superb functionality and its light environmental footprint. Putnam & Associates’ goal is to create excellence and value for our clients through an awareness of the past and the needs of the future. Our process takes as its bedrock understanding our client’s priorities and goals.
Our designs have been recognized nationally by professional organizations including the American Institute of Architects, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, and the National Association of Housing Rehabilitation Organizations. We have received both an AIA National Honor Award for Housing Adaptive re-use and an ASLA First National Honor Award.
Mr. Putnam in various capacities has been designing and building housing and residential scale architecture of all types since graduating from the architecture department of the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1970. Mr. Putnam’s experience runs the gamut from projects as large as $150 million and to as small as 25 square feet . Mr. Putnam worked on the adaptive re-use and restoration of the Pilling Mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, which received an AIA First National Honor Award.
Putnam & Associates brings unique expertise to restoration, conservation, preservation and adaptation of existing buildings. Mr. Putnam is a long time member of and occasional consultant to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and the former Chairman of the Sherborn Historic District Commission.
Mr. Putnam brings a lifetime of planning, programming and architectural skills to his practice and a thoughtful approach to design -- whether it is about site planning, spatial analysis or technical issues. A long-time member of CSI as well as the AIA, Mr. Putnam has been a consultant to leading architectural firms to assist them in the design process and to mentor their younger architects.