Z Group Architects was founded as a direct outgrowth of Caudill Gustafson and Associates, Architects. Samuel J. Caudill FAIA, founder of the firm, has been honored by the American Institute of Architects for his lifetime of architectural achievement. Currently led by James A. Gustafson NCARB and Seth Hmielowski AIA, we maintain an energetic staff, an open environment, and a collaborative spirit.

“In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.” – Daniel Libeskind

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.” – Louis Kahn

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” – Norman Foster