Geoffrey Mouen is a Professionally Licensed Architect, educator and founder of Geoffrey Mouen Architect, LLC, providing professional architecture and urban design services.  He is NCARB certified and has worked locally and on projects around the world.  With over 25 years of professional design experience, he has designed award winning residences, buildings and world class communities.  His work has been featured in Period Homes Magazine, New Old House, Builder Magazine, Home Magazine, Traditional Building, and New Urban News.  Geoffrey is most known for being the Town Architect of Celebration Florida and his innovative and collaborative charrette leadership on achieving sustainable design and timeless architecture that is reflective the culture and place.  He is well respected in the Architecture and Traditional building industry as well as the New Urbanism.

From 1992 to 1999 he worked for the world-renowned firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architect where he was in charge of the designs of several multi-million dollar projects including the Aspen Highlands Ski Village, The K.C. Irving Environmental Science Center at Acadia University, a US Embassy in Budapest Hungary, many beautiful homes from the Hamptons to Colorado to Seoul, Korea.

Geoffrey served as the Town Architect for the ULI award-winning town of Celebration, FL, developed by the Walt Disney Corporation, as well as the prestigious Disney’s Golden Oak Resort development within Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  He serves as Town Architect for Albany, a prestigious new urban resort development in Nassau, Bahamas developed by Tavistock and master planned by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.  As Town Architect Geoffrey established the design review guidelines, the review process and collaborates with multiple stake holders to improve and maintain the highest possible design quality.

Locally Geoffrey has designed multiple community centers, including civic town hall buildings in Baldwin Park and  Avalon Park.  He was awarded 11 SEBC Aurora awards, including Best in State and the Golden Award, and Best in American Living (BALA) award in 2008 for the Tradewinds Show Home, as well as the 2004 Palladio Awards for the Enders Park Community Center, in Baldwin Park, Florida.

Geoffrey’s innovative and problem solving skills lead to his creation of the Architecture Charrette Team (ACT), an interdisciplinary and collaborative company that combines world class design talent with efficient teamwork through managed and highly productive charrettes to foster the highest possible quality design.  This collaborative  community based process has provided hundreds of high quality community and residential designs for developers, custom and merchant builders.   ACT has worked on multiple DPZ New Urban communities around the country and has proven to be an efficient and effective delivery system in the modern development process producing diversity and high quality designs and thorough documentation. 

Geoffrey is a man of strong Christian faith, a trained Stephen minister and dedicated leader in his church where he serves as an elder and leads multiple life group meetings, bible studies and regularly facilitates small groups. Geoffrey serves on the Celebration Foundation’s New Urbanism Committee dedicated to educating, preserving and advancing traditional town planning and New urbanism in Celebration, Florida.

He graduated Cum Laude with a master’s in architecture from the Savannah College of Art and Design.  While attending SCAD he studied in Savannah, New York, Rome, Florence, and Venice, Italy and interned at architecture firms in Savannah and New York City.  He has taken attended and taught courses at the  ICA&A.

As an adjunct professor Geoffrey taught urban design at Rollins College, Masters of Planning and Civic Urbanism program.  He also helped develop the New Urban course curriculum and taught classes on architecture and New Urbanism at the Celebration Life Long Learning program.   He lectures at local and national conferences addressing architects, planners, and students on the topics of sustainable architecture, planning, and urban design.