Jonathan Fournier

AIA, LEED AP, NCARB

Throughout my childhood, I would spend countless hours building with Legos, and re-build iteration after iteration only to find out I had been up all night. If I wasn’t building Legos, my mother who was an educator, encouraged me to problem solve with puzzles and to draw. If we couldn’t afford a drawing table, I found a way to make one using only materials my family could provide.

Little did I know it at the time, but my family was able to provide me with a model for a life of service. It began with my father who decided to make a career change where he would dedicate his life to the social welfare of others as a Licensed Social Worker and now Psychotherapist.

Having two working parents meant my siblings and I would spend summers and weekends with my father at a homeless shelter or counseling center. We played with other children, explored old buildings, enjoyed dinner and movies with residents, learned new skills, discovered new languages, and never once realized this was any different than spending time with our own family and friends.

I was fortunate to have the support of my family through my time at Syracuse. Although, Grad school was financially out of reach. Therefore, I decided to focus on gaining professional experience, and eventually made living and working in New York City my ‘Grad School’. I was going to work at the best firms possible, be a sponge, learn and read everything, travel, work with no regrets knowing I have given this everything I had, and always find the time to serve others. 

I have been practicing architecture for over 24 years focusing primarily on high profile design work, and I have revisited what value I can bring to people as an architect.

When I think about my greatest experiences, it has never been about the incredible firms or projects I’ve been extremely fortunate to be involved with. It is the journey, the people, and relationships developed that shaped who I am today. The people who have taught me how to design, how to tell a story, how to prioritize life and family, how to live, and how to serve others. 

It is with this experience that I am making a change, much like my father, and dedicating my remaining career to serving the underserved. Be a problem solver who believes that architecture is about engaging people, and building a world where our environment is responsible, respectful, and humane. Advocate for the right of every community to have an affordable place to find ‘joy’, to ‘live’, and consider ‘home.’ If I can model this as a priority for my children, maybe they too can pay it forward one day.

Registrations:

Massachusetts- Lic # 20519

New York- Lic # 034317

Vermont- Lic # 003.0134879

Cal OES- Safety Assessment Program Evaluator

Selected Experience:

Renovations on Argyle

Andover Design Review Board- Current Chair

Boston Society of Architects

Lecture and workshop for the Design Visualization Knowledge Community

Howeler + Yoon Architecture, Boston

Maple Grove Elementary School- Columbus, Indiana

Historic Roseland Theatre , Chicago- Wis(Dom) Connection Adaptive Reuse Concept

Coolidge Corner Theatre Addition, Brookline, MA.- 2024 Eliot Award for Preservation

Chicago Come Home Competition- Missing Middle Housing Concept

Union Square Housing Development, Somerville, MA.

Floatlab, Philadelphia, PA.- Floating Community Center with Mural Arts Philadelphia & Bartram’s Garden

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum- Designing for Peace Exhibition, New York, NY.

Neely (Plus) House, Fishers, IN.

Safdie Architects, Somerville

Albert Einstein Education and Research Center- Sao Paulo, Brazil

Architecture For Humanity, NY

Walt Shumel Garden- Brooklyn, NY

Mad Fun Farm- Harlem, NY

BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), NYC

Google North Bayshore Master Plan

Google Charleston East Campus- Mountain View, CA.

RAWimpact

Housing- Village of Choam Trach, Cambodia

Respond & Rebuild

Disaster & Humanitarian Relief in Far Rockaway, NY

H.O.P.E Foundation International

Medical & Dental Mission to Mount Pinatubo locale, Philippines

Southpoint: From Ruin to Rejuvenation Competition

Studio Daniel Libeskind, NYC

Citylife Residences & Tower- Milan, Italy

Magnet Residences- Tirana, Albania

Flight 93 Memorial Design Competition

Archventures

Griffin House Homeless Shelter for Battered Women, Renovation Plan- Dorchester, MA.

Payette Associates, Boston

Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA.- BAC Exhibition, Museum & Music Pavilion Planning

Bachelor’s of Architecture from Syracuse University, Cum Laude

Jill Neubauer Architects, Falmouth