Universal Design

KMA principal, Josh Safdie, will present with Ken Dobyns, KOMPAN North America; Dawn Oates, The Play Brigade; and Cheri Ruane, Weston & Sampson at this year’s Boston Society of [...]

KMA recently finished a project installing a 3-stop vertical platform lift in a split-level ranch style home in Wellesley MA. The lift was necessary as one member of the family has MS. The [...]

by J Garofalo | Intern Architect / Access Planner The first time I came across an oversized chair was during my bariatric consultation appointment in 2013. At the time I weighed 300 lbs and was [...]

by Julia Garofalo | Intern Architect / Access Planner As an undergraduate student, I initially majored in Deaf Studies to be a sign language interpreter. Each semester, ASL students had to attend [...]

by Hazel Ryerson, CAPS | Job Caption/Project Designer One of the challenges I’ve run into at the KMA Design Studio is how to balance the regulatory accessibility requirements for multifamily [...]

Kessler McGuinness & Associates, LLC (KMA) is pleased to announce that Josh Safdie, Associate AIA, has joined founders Katherine McGuinness and David Kessler as a Principal. Mr. Safdie has [...]

by Katie Denis | Access Planner Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois is an embodiment of great design. There are many architectural and landscape features that attract both Chicago-natives and [...]

The United States is facing an aging crisis of unprecedented proportions.  Advances in health care and medicine continue to increase our longevity, such that by 2050 the number of US residents [...]

Although we have been improving accessibility to historic places throughout New England for many years, a little inspiration from England never hurts.  I took this photo at the Royal Institute of [...]

Josh Safdie, Associate Principal at KMA, recently spoke at the  Savannah College of Art and Design on the topic of universal design and historic preservation. “(Non)Competing Agendas: Identifying [...]