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braganza design/ GROUP is a full-service architecture and planning firm located in Memphis, Tennessee. Our staff is comprised of experienced, dedicated, licensed professionals. Like many Memphis design firms, braganza design/ GROUP (formerly Braganza Associates. P.C.) shares a common pedigree with notable historic Memphis architectural firms dating back almost 50 years. After completing his architectural education in 1960 from Liverpool University in England, Claude Braganza started his architectural career at the Office of Walk C. Jones Architects in 1961. He collaborated with Francis Mah on numerous award winning projects such as the First Tennessee Bank Building and Southern College of Optometry. In 1971, Claude began working for Francis Gassner at Gassner Nathan Browne, Architects-Planners (1971-1977) where he became a partner and developed a life-long friendship with Mr. Gassner (who the local AIA Memphis Chapter named it’s most prestigious award after for outstanding contributions to the quality of Memphis’s built environment).

Upon Mr. Gassner’s untimely death in 1977, Claude Braganza was a founding partner in the spin-off firm Browne/ Wilkinson/ Braganza Associates (1977-1984). In 1984, Mr. Braganza incorporated Braganza Associates, P.C. Architects as a Professional Architectural Corporation with a longstanding mission to not only design quality environments, but to build and cultivate long term relationships with our clients as well as our consultants.

In an effort to continue the firm’s legacy, Braganza Associates, P.C. welcomed two longstanding employees, Wendy Gross, AIA and Chris Norton, AIA as partners in 2008. They have worked in the Memphis Architecture Community for almost 40 years combined.  Under their leadership, Braganza Associates, P.C. will maintain its commitment to enhance the built environment through thoughtful, innovative and budget-minded design.