--- title: "Merge Architects, Inc — Architects & Building Designers | Houzz" canonical_html_url: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/merge-architects-inc-pfvwus-pf~688805875 markdown_url: https://www.houzz.com/md/professionals/pf~688805875.md entity_type: LocalBusiness business_name: "Merge Architects, Inc" category: ["Architects"] image: https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/e473ad5003cd6c6b_1564-w400-h400-b0-p0--.jpg address: "374 Congress Street, 332 Congress Street #6, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States" latitude: 42.3489 longitude: -71.0465 phone: "(617) 670-0265" website: http://mergearchitects.com/ rating: 0 review_count: 0 followers: 47 last_updated: 2026-09-24 --- # Merge Architects, Inc Original Houzz profile: [Merge Architects, Inc](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/merge-architects-inc-pfvwus-pf~688805875) ## Professional summary - **Primary category:** Architects - **Location:** Boston, MA - **Serves:** Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Arlington, Lexington, South Boston, Roxbury, East Boston, Brighton - **Houzz rating:** 0.0 out of 5 (0 reviews) ## About ### Houzz Badges - 500 Ideabook Saves MERGE Architects is a practice that invents through collaboration. Founded by Elizabeth Whittaker, the firm’s work addresses multiple scales including commercial, institutional, retail, private residential, multi-family housing, as well as graphic and furniture design. The office works side-by-side with the client and teams of fabricators, artists, craftsmen and engineers to produce an architecture that embraces the art of making within a larger agenda: to re-define the urban and social boundaries in and around the city. The work combines both digital fabrication and the hand made by working through a cross-disciplinary as well a cross-production process. The work of MERGE Architects has been widely published both nationally and internationally and has received multiple awards including eleven AIA/BSA awards, a citation for the international Harbor Park Pavilion competition in Boston, second place for the new AIA/BSA Boston Headquarters, and just recently received a Best of Year Award from Interior Design Magazine for their project Lightwell. Elizabeth has lectured extensively within the US and abroad, and was just recently named one of the “15 Young Firms to Watch” by Residential Architect magazine. Elizabeth has also served on the Boston Society of Architects/AIA Board of Directors and has been nominated for the National American Institute of Architects, Young Architect’s Award. She graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design with Distinction where she received numerous awards during her graduate studies. Elizabeth approaches architecture as a discipline embedded in both practice and academia. She has taught design studios in several Architecture programs including Harvard University (GSD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northeastern University, and the Boston Architectural College. Elizabeth currently holds a faculty position as Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. ### Areas Served - Boston - Cambridge - Newton - Arlington - Lexington - South Boston - Roxbury - East Boston - Brighton ## Business Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Business Name | Merge Architects, Inc | | Address | 374 Congress Street, 332 Congress Street \#6, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States | | Phone | (617) 670-0265 | | Website | http://mergearchitects.com/ | | Followers on Houzz | 47 | **Social profiles:** - Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/mergearchitectsinc - LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/merge-architects?trk=company\_name - Blog — http://instagram.com/mergearchitectsinc ## Contact - **Houzz profile:** [Merge Architects, Inc](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/merge-architects-inc-pfvwus-pf~688805875) - **Website:** http://mergearchitects.com/ - **Phone:** (617) 670-0265 ## Selected projects - [Penn Street Lofts](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/penn-street-lofts-pj-vj~616821) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 7 - Description: Penn Street Lofts incorporates loft-style condos on the site of a former granite carving factory, packing six units into a tight box defined by the allowable zoning and a strict parking requirement. Strategic placement of volumes allows for interlocking layouts featuring 17-foot-tall ceilings in each unit’s living area. These unique double-height spaces are represented on the façade with balcony voids highlighted by bright green wall panels. The recess of each unit’s balcony frames views into an… - [Peg Wall](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/peg-wall-pj-vj~615556) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 6 - Description: The Peg Wall is an intervention into a private loft that uses over 40,000 individual wooden dowels. The dowels activate a pegboard wall liner that wraps a new, second bathroom space. The pegs were cut at 30 different lengths and then individually inserted into a grid of ½”-diameter CNC-cut holes. The resulting undulating surface operates as both storage space and enclosure. The thickened wall surface provides a unique bookcase for the owner’s extensive book collection while reading as both grid… - [Filter Loft](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/filter-loft-pj-vj~615539) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 7 - Description: The Filter Loft is a floor-through loft in a five-story mixed-use commercial and residential building, located in the chaotic heart of Boston’s downtown. Rather than turning its back on the grit of the surrounding neighborhood, this design filters the city through a series of translucent screens that combine to create a soft and serene environment. Sandblasted polycarbonate panels, back painted glass, pale concrete, and wood are used to construct a series of translucent surfaces that allow light… - [Viveiros Roof](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/viveiros-roof-pj-vj~615573) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 6 - Description: A steel-framed canopy and screen wall clad in wood slats of varying widths define the boundaries of the Viveiros Roof on an industrial loft building in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. A custom concrete and ipe grill island is ringed with areas of built-in seating, wood decking, loose gravel and grassy surfaces, creating a variety of environments for lounging and entertaining. - [Jenks Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/jenks-residence-pj-vj~617065) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 7 - Description: The Jenks Residence is a renovation of a South End duplex, transforming an ordinary apartment into a loft-like space with high ceilings, whitewashed brick walls, and bright pink lighting. Large spaces are carved out from within the tight existing plan, and built-in furniture and storage create flexible layouts for multiple functions. Reversing the position of the entry stair transforms what was a stair landing into a generous second-floor seating area. A guest bedroom doubles as a home office wi… - [Woven Wall Roof](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/woven-wall-roof-pj-vj~617043) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 9 - Description: A woven wall wood screen wraps this deck on the roof of an industrial loft building in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. Exploiting the innate flexibility of wood, the design for the screen bends multiple widths of ipe boards between wood verticals to create variable openings. The variably opaque screen conceals mechanical equipment and opens to views with a playful rhythm that creates both enclosed and more open spaces with a play between privacy and translucency. The ipe-wood deck, twelve… - [Fort Point Loft](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/fort-point-loft-pj-vj~615522) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 10 - Description: Fort Point Loft is a 2,000SF loft renovation featuring an open floor plan connecting primary living spaces with a floating den separating the kitchen from the open master bedroom. The dark side of the loft is lined with private programs and storage hidden behind a flexible wall system of aluminum and glass sliding panels. Aluminum frames and translucent finishes on the panels allow borrowed light to penetrate while providing layers of opacity and translucency for programs of various levels of pr… - [Grow Box](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/grow-box-pj-vj~2581084) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 8 - Description: Grow Box is a 1,975 sf home in Lexington, MA, designed for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house is in pristine condition, with elaborate plantings and over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients. The extents of the existing gardens limited the footprint of the new house, but inspired an architecture that utilizes landscape to affect space that expands beyond the physical limi… - [Marginal Street Lofts](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/marginal-street-lofts-pj-vj~2581223) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 11 - Description: This new nine-unit residential building occupies a small but unique site on the waterfront in East Boston. Located between the residential neighborhood of Jeffries Point and an active shipyard, public art gallery and cafe, the design utilizes industrial materials to effect a contemporary interpretation of context while dissolving the boundary between building and city. Planning limitations, including height restrictions imposed by neighbors, parking requirements from the city, and the developer’… - [Fort Hill Houses](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/fort-hill-houses-pj-vj~2581173) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 9 - Description: This project includes 7 townhouse condo units in the Fort Hill area of Roxbury, Boston. This project was designed as an E+ development – an architecture that will generate more energy for the grid than it consumes. We employed both passive and active solar strategies to achieve this goal as well as robust building envelope construction practices. We worked very closely with the neighborhood to satisfy their desire for a series of bay windows on the façade reminiscent of the typical rowhouses in… [See all 10 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/merge-architects-inc-pfvwus-pf~688805875) --- *Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-09-24.*