Inception
The Follett Design Group, founded by Peter Follett in 2024, is a Architectural Design /Consulting professional limited liability company (PLLC) focused on architectural design and planning, client-based consulting, community building, social design initiatives, housing, wellness, sustainable practices, and collaborative design. Principal Peter Follett brings 35 years of architectural design leadership and project management across a wide range of project typologies and scales, including award-winning projects worldwide. While working with Pelli Clarke & Partners, projects included the Petronas Office Towers with the Dewan Filharmonik Concert Hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, the MGM ARIA Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada, Arboleda Master Plan and Phase 01 Mixed-Use Development in Monterrey Mexico, Union Park Master Plan and Mixed Use Development in downtown Toronto and the La_Nube Residential Tower in San Pedro Garza Garcia Mexico.
FDG is positioned to bring together top-tier designers, clients, developers, contractors, and consultants for diverse proposals, planning, and project types through established national and international relationships worldwide. FDG welcomes collaboration with all project participants and can provide services from conceptual planning and programming through full project delivery in a design consultant role.
Leadership
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Peter Follett, AIA RIBA
MANAGING PRINCIPAL
I lead master planning and design for high-rise, multi-purpose residential/office towers at FollettDesignGroup PLLC, focusing on design direction and vision, and assemble project-specific teams to deliver high-rise. These mixed-use developments shape city identity and enrich communities. I approach architecture as a dynamic, three-dimensional process, creating thoughtful, sustainable environments that balance design vision with technical execution.
I bring a client-focused, collaborative perspective informed by 34 years in architectural design, planning, and construction. I build strong partnerships with clients, consultants, and communities. Committed to mentorship and education, with experience lecturing, serving on design juries, and contributing to academic programs, helping to guide the next generation of architects while advancing impactful, community-focused design.
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Guillermo Brandi
PARTNER / DESIGN DIRECTOR
Partner and Design Director at FollettDesignGroup PLLC, leading project-specific teams to deliver innovative high-rise, mixed-use, and large-scale developments. Integrates emerging technology, including AI and advanced design tools, to challenge conventions and create forward-thinking solutions within real-world constraints of budget, construction, and program.
With experience on globally recognized projects across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, brings a collaborative, technically grounded approach to design and execution. Committed to mentorship, education, and community engagement, supporting the next generation of professionals through teaching, BIM training, and ongoing contributions to urban planning initiatives.
TENETS
DESIGN
Design is the passion behind all creativity and the driver of FDG. Solving 3-dimensional programmatic puzzles to improve the user experience forms the base of conceptual exploration. Assisting clients and developers in understanding and planning expectations is a foundation of project goals that blossoms into the design and exploration of greater goals. Design is the process in which sustainability, community, and collaboration are brought together to provide design direction to meet client goals, aspirations, and ROI.
SUSTAINABILITY
Through a community of planning principals, design ideals, civic and municipal involvements, and the collaborative process, being part of a “community” is a FDG goal in planning, from the micro-individualized project development of users to its macro impact on adjacent neighbors, within the city, representation of the country, or the world stage. Building community is a consciousness of your impact on the world you live in and a goal of how you look to represent your project and ideals. Building community lifts everyone.
COLLABORATION
Sustainability ensures future development, a positive impact on the world, and stewardship of our community, a core tenet behind all design efforts of the FDG. From initial conceptual discussions through design, planning, and construction, FDG works with clients, consultants, and contractors to incorporate sustainable practices, materials, and systems into the proposed design direction. Renewable Energy, carbon sequestration, adaptive reuse, passive house, biodiversity, and local sourcing are sustainable elements that support the design and enhance the project and user experience.
COMMUNITY
Collaboration is essential for all parties to “own " the project. FDG welcomes the input and engagement of clients, consultants, contractors, and all other stakeholders/participants in the development of a project in meetings and design presentations. This collaborative effort may often need to extend beyond the confines of the development group, requiring community participation, civic review, and municipal input. FDG aims to build a broad consensus to support the project and guide the approvals process.
FDG Footprint
Environmental Impact
FDG is a leader in environmentally sustainable designs and planning. These same principles are tenets in the fabric of all FDG work. Maintaining a small environmental footprint through thoughtful design practices, careful coordination of systems, and attention to the selection of materials is just part of the process. To be truly sustainable, design must also address economic and cultural factors that make projects successful well into the future. Working closely with clients, consultants, contractors, and Cities / Towns, FDG helps lead the process.
Sourcing local materials, designing strategies to promote light and air quality, supporting biodiversity within a site to sustain existing ecosystems, and using biophilic design to maintain and strengthen our connection with nature enhance user experience, improve design quality, and promote conscientious future development through example.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
FDG leads in the development of master plans and the transformation of communities, which requires a special attention to the social responsibilities of our practice. FDG works with Clients and their communities through local planning & zoning, Infrastructure, approvals, and community consensus-building to meet project demands while attending to the project's impacts on the existing urban and socio-economic fabric of the adjacent community. FDG considers the needs of the client and their users as well as the community that the design is part of. FDG emphasizes socially responsible designs that are functional, user-friendly, and inclusive of the community the projects serve. Great design lifts everyone and is a compass for new and future work.
