Gregg Garmisa

Gregg Garmisa (he/him) is a Principal in our Chicago office and serves as Studio Gang’s General Counsel. Drawing on over three decades of experience practicing law, Gregg works with our design teams, clients, and consultants across all projects to establish and maintain productive and collegial professional relationships.

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 in Washington, DC, and Chicago, and served as legislative advisor to a US senator on Capitol Hill.

Since 2019, Gregg has been a Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He co-teaches “Foundations of Practice,” a required course for all M. Arch I degree candidates, which examines the issues that define the modern architectural profession. An experienced speaker on current topics at the intersection of the design profession and the law, he has lectured at undergraduate- and graduate-level architecture programs as well as conferences across the US and abroad.

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. Gregg earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University, where he was a law review associate editor, and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University.