Pflueger Architects AIA

John Pflueger has been practicing architecture in California, across the United States and internationally since the 1960's. At that time, part of the firm was under the direction of his father, Milton Pflueger, and was fully engaged in hospital work - culminating with completion of the new Walter Reed General Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. All other work in the office was under the direction of John Pflueger and encompassed private, institutional, and university projects under an energy conservation mandate.

This mandate was initiated in the early 1970's, when John Pflueger directed the firm to consider not only function, aesthetics, and cost in the design of the firm's projects, but also to commit each project to the conservation of energy. Many large institutional structures were designed to operate with a minimal amount of energy, and to provide as much energy as possible by alternative, active and passive, and other renewable systems - before ever resorting to non-renewable sources.