Merrill Pastor and Colgan Architects has designed a variety of building types from houses and housing, to churches and courthouses. We are doing projects throughout the United States and the Caribbean. We have projects in a wide range of settings- mountainsides, historic districts, new towns, Audubon easements, central business districts, beachfront, marina and lake front. On smaller projects we offer full services. On large projects and projects further afield we are accustomed to a wide range of collaborations. We are currently working on parts of larger projects planned by Cooper Robertson and Partners, Robert AM Stern, Duany Plater Zyberk, and Urban Design Associates.

The firm has won three national AIA awards for both planning and architecture. The Florida AIA has recognized the firm’s design work on twelve occasions, for a wide range of projects. In 2000 the Florida AIA gave the firm an award of honor for design, in recognition of a body of work completed over the preceding decade, the first ten years of the firm’s existence. The Chicago Athenaeum recognized the firm’s Seaside Chapel in 2002. The Institute of Classical Architecture in New York honored the firm in 2004 for its body of work. Projects by the firm have been widely published here and abroad. Scott Merrill has lectured on the firm’s work throughout the country, including lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Miami, and the Institute of Classical Architecture and the Lotus Club in New York.

The firm was founded by Scott Merrill, the principal designer, in 1990. He attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 1979, and received his Masters of Architecture from Yale University in 1984. George Pastor joined the firm in 1991. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Miami in 1989, and his Masters degree from Virginia in 1991. He became a partner in 1997. David Colgan came to work for the firm in 1994, and became a partner in 1999, moving to Atlanta to oversee a satellite office there. He received a Bachelors of Architecture from Notre Dame in 1994. The main office has been in Vero Beach, Florida since 1990.