Peter Phinney, AIA, LEED AP
PRINCIPAL, VICE PRESIDENT

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Peter Phinney has been involved in architecture in a variety of contexts for over thirty years, undertaking a variety of project types.

Peter has been responsible for many of BPS's recent large-scale and complex facilities projects.
Organiztions:

Vice President 
• AIA South Bay Long Beach Chapter 
Advisory Board Member 
• Palos Verdes Art Center 
Member 
• National Trust for Historic Preservation 
Member 
• United States Green Building Council


Registrations:

Registered Architect, California & Arizona  
Peter Phinney has been involved in architecture in a variety of contexts for over thirty years, undertaking a variety of project types with a focus on interior architecture, corporate environments, historic preservation and adaptive re-use. Peter has been responsible for many of BPS’s recent large-scale and programmatically complex facilities projects and has been with BPS for over twelve years.

He has also designed renovations to museums and galleries, public parks, and urban streetscapes incorporating public art. In 1994, he designed the largest federally-funded historic preservation project in the State of Michigan, which incorporated social service and municipal agency offices and a transportation museum in National Register Historic Structure. Peter is a registered Architect in California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Texas.
His career began in Boston where he attended Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Upon graduation from Harvard, Peter worked for several well-known New England architectural firms, undertaking a variety of project types with a focus on interior architecture, corporate environments, historic preservation and adaptive re-use. He also became interested in retail design and museum projects, as these specialties afforded the opportunity for him to incorporate his interest in fine art, sculpture and exhibit design with his architectural specialty.

Peter has been responsible for many of BPS's recent large-scale and programmatically complex facilities projects. He has also designed interiors for more than seventy stores and restaurants for our national retail clients throughout the United States, as well as renovations to museums and galleries, public parks, urban streetscapes incorporating public art, and other projects that benefit from his interest in art history and exhibit design.

Peter is also well versed in the design of systems furniture specification, installation of corporate design criteria, graphics, didactic signage, and the psychology of color, and he is a specialist in architectural history and historic preservation. In 1994, he designed the largest federally-funded historic preservation project in the State of Michigan, which incorporated social service and municipal agency offices and a transportation museum in National Register Historic Structure.