pachano+core

We are a full service design+construction office working in the Berkshires, Western Massachusetts, the Hudson Valley, New York, City and beyond. We aim to elevate the quality of people’s lives through architecture by creating spaces that inspire discovery. Our approach is simultaneously exploratory, technical, and responsive to requirements of the project and sites on which we build, focusing on high perfomance systems designed to create efficiency and comfort. We intuitively reveal possibilities latent within every brief over a range of project types and landscapes in tandem with integrated construction services. From the first to last phase, we deliver design+building knowledge and exprertise as an integrated process.

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PEDRO PACHANODrawing from interests in photography, video and sound, Pedro explored the topics of urbanism, architecture and the ‘myth of progress’ over a 10 year period working as an artist and teacher. In 2005 he received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and went on to draw and design for award winning offices such as Diller Scofidio and Renfro and FX Collaborative on projects incuding the NYTimes Tower and the renovatin of the Juilliard School both in NYC. In 2007 he founded P&V with Amparo Vollert, with whom he has designed and completed projects in New York, Miami, San Francisco, the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts and Bogotá, Colombia. Currently, Pedro sits on the Planning Board of the town of Great Barrington, MA, is a licensed architect in New York & Massachusetts, is NCARB Certified and is a Certified Passive House Consultant. 

JACK LUBER
Jack relocated to the Berkshires after 18 years of designing and building commercial and residential projects in Eastern Long Island between East Hampton and Montauk. In the Berkshires he continues his passion for design and construction throughout the Southern Berkshires+Hudson Valley, New York area. Partnering with Pedro Pachano in 2026, he adds high performance/Passive House design to his repetoire. Jack is a  licensed Contractor in New York+Massachusetts.

pachano+core was created as a merger between Shell + Core and P&V, forming a company offering integreated+full-service, high-performace design and construction services.