Geoffrey Mouen Architects

Geoffrey Mouen Architects Geoffrey Mouen is an award-winning architect based in Celebration, FL, known for classical design and sustainable urbanism.

A Palladio Award recipient, he designs timeless, walkable communities rooted in New Urbanist and traditional principles. Award Winning Professional design services focusing on residential civic and urban design.

10/22/2026

A visit to the Library of Congress in Washington. The Thomas Jefferson Building is one of the great Beaux-Arts interiors in America: marble, mosaic, murals, and a Great Hall that announces what a civic building can be. The Main Reading Room under that dome is still my favorite room in the city. Every detail was designed to be seen, understood, and enjoyed by the public. Worth the trip.

09/14/2026

I finally walked Poundbury last week, King Charles's town in Dorset, thirty years in the making. Leon Krier masterplanned it, and Ben Pentreath has been one of its lead architects for over two decades, beginning with a student competition win to design the first phase of this very square. I started where the town started: Pummery Square, Phase 1.

Let me address the standard modernist critique first, that Poundbury is fake and toylike. It is unfounded. The design is mature in its complexity and harmonious in human scale and proportion. The materials are truly authentic: natural stone and brick masonry, hewn timber, clay tile roofs, crafted detail with meaning yet reserved ornamentation. There is a timeless quality here, a cultural connection to the heritage of Great Britain with references to vernacular and Georgian antecedents. Those who say it is not of its time must have a very short memory.

09/14/2026

the first phase of this very square. I started where the town started: Pummery Square, Phase 1.

Let me address the standard modernist critique first, that Poundbury is fake and toylike. It is unfounded. The design is mature in its complexity and harmonious in human scale and proportion. The materials are truly authentic: natural stone and brick masonry, hewn timber, clay tile roofs, crafted detail with meaning yet reserved ornamentation. There is a timeless quality here, a cultural connection to the heritage of Great Britain with references to vernacular and Georgian antecedents. Those who say it is not of its time must have a very short memory.

At the center of the square is John Simpson's Brownsword Hall. An open market hall below, a timber-trussed meeting room above. The hall is used by many community groups for meetings and exhibitions, and the open-air market beneath it hosts monthly local markets and festivals.

08/27/2026

Continuing with our walk down Montrose Street and had to stop in for a croissant.

08/26/2026

Continuing our walk through downtown Clermont. This alleyway is so nice for pedestrians.

07/30/2026

Showing a new area today, downtown Clermont. I really like how this downtown is laid out. It has small town charm, it's well-kept and very well designed. Have you explored this area?

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