Lance Abaya

Lance Abaya received his Master of Architecture Degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2012, and his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Arlington School of Architecture in 2010. Lance joined GFF in 2010 and is a part of the Retail Studio as a Senior Design Leader. He actively engages with clients, consultants and the community to create the environments that individuals interact with on a daily basis. GFF has been fostering Lance’s development as a skilled designer and continues to nurture his interest in exercising innovative ways to explore and produce architecture and placemaking for the retail environment and beyond.

Lance focuses to refine a craft and build a strong repertoire of both analog and digital toolsets, often finding compelling solutions of order and space within mixed media. His particular skill in parametric modeling, photorealistic rendering and digital fabrication methodologies is often utilized to explore contemporary design ideas of texture, effect, tectonics and optimization of material and construction techniques.