Establishing Good Haas & Fulton (GH&F)

1982

Larry Good, Stan Haas, and Duncan Fulton break away from Parkey & Partners Architects to establish a new practice: Good Haas & Fulton (GH&F). They initially work out of their own private residences. They show up unannounced at P&PA coworker Karen Quick’s door to ask her to join the firm as its receptionist. She agrees under the condition that she doesn’t handle the accounting.

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1982

GH&F occupies its first office space at 311 Market Street in the West End district of Downtown Dallas starting out with seven employees. The exposed steel and heavy timber framing of the floor above the mezzanine level leaves the firm’s tallest employees with multiple headaches. Only classical music is allowed from the stereo system.

1982

Retail strip shopping centers provide the firm with its first opportunities for “place making.” Many of these designs have survived decades of shifting design paradigms and can still be found in their original form throughout the Metroplex.

1983

The firm wins its first ever design award for Denton Town Center.

1983

Karen Quick fires the temporary bookkeeper and handles all the accounting.