PACHANO&VOLLERT

We are a full service architecture and interior design office working in the Berkshires, Western Massachusetts, the Hudson Valley, New York, City and beyond. We aim to elevate the quality of people’s lives through architecture by creating spaces that inspire discovery. Our approach is simultaneously exploratory, technical, and responsive to requirements of the project and sites on which we build. Our process intuitively reveals possibilities latent within every brief over a range of project types and scales including urbanism, buildings, houses, renovations, additions, interior design, landscape and furniture. Regardless of scale, we are committed to be curiously engaged and thorough from beginning to end.

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PEDRO RAFAEL PACHANO
Pedro received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Master of Fine Arts from Georgia State University in Atlanta and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Florida State University. He has designed and drawn for award winning offices such as Diller Scofidio and Renfro and FX Collaborative. In 2007 he founded P&A with Amparo, with whom he has designed and completed projects in New York, Miami, San Francisco, the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts and Bogotá, Colombia. Currently, Pedro sits on the Planning Board of the town of Great Barrington, MA, is a licensed architect in New York & Massachusetts, is NCARB Certified as well as a Certified Passive House Consultant.

AMPARO VOLLERT (1975-2025)Amparo received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a Bachelor of Arts from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, where she graduated as an Honors Scholar. Her research and writing at NYU on space, perception and experience continues to influence her work. In 1999, she worked for Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in Barcelona and then established her own design studio in 2000 in NYC, where she focused on residential and commercial work. She founded P&V with Pedro in 2007. Amparo passed away peacefully in late Fall of 2025.