is an award winning design firm providing a full range of architectural services. We maintain a diverse practice with an emphasis on residential work. Every project in undertaken as a unique design challenge with attention to detail, context and budget. Founded originally in 1963 as Joan Wood Associates the firm was groundbreaking in a period with very few woman owed architectural firms. Joan Wood
Associates went on to success, completing predominantly residential projects including the renovation of over 100 South End rowhouses alone. Joan's son Joshua worked with her for 12 years before taking ownership of the firm and renaming it Rose Wood Architects, Inc. We are committed to innovative and professional work resulting in well designed beautiful buildings. Architectural services:
residential, commercial, institutional projects
new construction, additions, renovations, and interiors
design consults & feasibility studies
historic preservation
zoning, environmental and historic presentations, hearings and appeals
green building services and LEED certification
Our current commissions include a deep energy retrofit residential addition in Boston, a Passivhaus Community Center in Roxbury, the second phase of a landscape project for a low-income housing co-op, and residential projects in Hull and Cambridge. We have completed work on numerous single and multi-family dwellings throughout New England. Our projects are urban, suburban and rural. We have experience designing mixed use developments, retail and residential renovations, storefronts, new construction, commercial and medical offices, historic preservation, adaptive reuse, space planning and feasibility studies. We have a long history of sustainable construction and are LEED accredited professionals. The firm has been recipient of numerous awards including a recent Boston Society of Architects small firms design award. Our familiarity with community institutions and in guiding projects through public design review and permitting processes is extensive: the founding principal was a member of the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal and vice chair of the Massachusetts Designer Selections Board. Joshua has been a Design Review Committee member for numerous projects and community organizations. He also brings a wide variety of practical and professional expertise to the firm (including 10 years of architectural teaching).
