Founder and President of Moser Design Group, Eric Moser hails from a rural Indiana farm family.  His early education from generations of Farmer Scientists, Philosophers, and Innovators instilled a deep respect for the Agrarian way of life.  Among the farmer’s many disciplines, the vernacular building traditions became Eric’s passion, Architecture, his calling.  After studying architecture at The University of Florida, Eric established the firm in 1986 catering to a custom residential design clientele in a resort setting.  Although rewarding, Eric soon came to the belief that a complete re-thinking of community development, and the metrics with which buildings themselves are measured, and valued, was paramount to creating meaningful, and sustainable places.

Beginning 1992, with the pilot infill project of Newpoint in Beaufort, SC, Eric embraced the principles of New Urbanism, and retooled to concentrate on providing affordable, context driven, traditional architecture for pedestrian friendly communities. Along with introducing new designs, Eric continues to research and test new building and delivery methods.  Particularly, those tectonics that replace the consumptive nature of throwaway buildings with more substantial, flexible buildings with sustainable materials, configurations and technologies that allow buildings to be built for the near term, and evolve for the long term. He lives and works in the Habersham, SC, a New Urbanist town he has been involved in since its inception in 1998. He has designed numerous homes in Habersham, and serves as the town urbanist. 

Eric is a frequent consultant across the United States and beyond for new and old towns, infill projects, hamlets, and neighborhoods. He collaborates with other professionals to plan, analyze and reintroduce historic local and regional building patterns. He works closely with Southern Living and Coastal Living and is often featured in their publications. Most recently, he designed the 2017 Southern Living Idea House on Bald Head Island, NC and the 2018 Coastal Living Idea House in Habersham.

INITIATIVES AND ASSOCIATIONS:

• Evolution Cottages- flexible, expandable, multigenerational

• Katrina Cottages- affordable, dignified solutions to emergency & affordable housing

• Sky Institute- board member of non-profit r & d organization for true sustainability

• Smart Dwelling Initiative- member & active developer of new building tectonics

• New Urban Guild

• The Congress for the New Urbanism

• Not So Big- MDG work featured in Sarah Susanka’s “Creating the Not So Big House”