Chad Floyd, FAIA, graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts and served as a Marine officer in Vietnam before earning his Master of Architecture degree from Yale University in 1973. He continued his education when he was awarded a Winchester Traveling Fellowship to visit India and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study “America’s celebratory spaces.” He is one of four partners at Centerbrook Architects and Planners in Centerbrook, Connecticut
January 19, 2011 – 1:49 pm
I would like to be able to state that I became an architect to save the planet from wasteful, polluting buildings – the built world accounts for some 40 percent of the greenhouse gases we produce – but the truth is my fondest desire was to become a thespian. As the theater is an iffy [...]
Norfolk is a small village in the rural northwest corner of Connecticut, the setting for a classy summer music program sponsored by Yale University. The other day while driving through, I stopped to admire the town’s library, a fine old structure that really catches your eye from the road. The building expresses the essence of [...]
They have been with us for less than two decades and they are now a relentless necessity. We’d sooner do without flush toilets than our cell phones. If we can’t reach everyone from everywhere, or get the latest stock quotes while we’re on the treadmill, our business and personal lives are deeply compromised. You’re in [...]
To mangle an old saw, the stakeholders are NOT always right. But they do have opinions and ideas, oftentimes quite insightful ones. At our peril do we architects overlook, or lord over our clients, and building inhabitants as well, in the design effort. When said stakeholders include citizens wielding the franchise, as is the case [...]
February 8, 2010 – 2:46 pm
I have a friend whose job is to maintain boats. He labors on white decks varnishing, painting, and caring for wood and composite materials. He’s been doing it for thirty years. Recently he told me he’s noticed boat materials are degrading faster than ever. He said fiberglass and composites don’t resist chalking and pitting as [...]
December 15, 2009 – 10:58 am
In college I was bitten by the theater bug. I found that acting was not only fun but it helped build my self-confidence speaking in front of people. I spent hours at the Yale Dramat and came to marvel at the magic that student stage and scene designers conjured for each new production by simply [...]
October 2, 2009 – 6:35 am
Newspaper editorial writers, generally on a tight deadline, often characterize architects – along with developers and engineers – as heavies overwhelming local land-use boards in pursuit of nefarious, land-gobbling sprawl. We may be easy whipping boys, but the reality is that here in Connecticut, and in many places across the nation, architects would love to [...]
