Gregg Garmisa

Principal Gregg Garmisa (he/him) is General Counsel at Studio Gang, based in the Studio’s Chicago office. Gregg interacts with clients, consultants, and our design teams on all projects to establish and maintain productive and collegial professional relationships.

Immediately prior to joining the Studio, Gregg was Vice President and General Counsel at a national engineering and sustainability consulting firm, where he became one of Studio Gang’s earliest collaborators. Before that, he practiced law and provided public policy guidance to clients in Washington, DC, and Chicago, and served as a legislative advisor to a US senator on Capitol Hill.

Gregg is an invited member of the Society of Illinois Construction Attorneys, a former board member of the American Institute of Architects Chicago, and a former trustee of the Chicago Architecture Center. He is an experienced lecturer on current topics at the intersection of the design profession and the law, which he has delivered at undergraduate- and graduate-level architecture programs as well as conferences across the US and abroad. In 2019, he accepted an academic appointment at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to co-teach “Foundations of Practice”, a required course for M. Arch I degree candidates that examines models and issues that define the modern architectural profession. Gregg earned his J.D. from Georgetown University, where he was a law review associate editor, and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.