Our Team
Gary Sanders, NCARB
Gary is a native of Cairo, GA and graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture from Southern Polytechnic State University. He has been practicing in Savannah and Tybee Island area since 1997. Gary has been enchanted with our oceans and coastal communities all his life.
After graduating college it became natural for him to move close to the coast. He began by working with firms that designed coastal projects. After getting established in Savannah, Gary saw the need to strike out on his own and opened Ciphers Design Co., which has been producing vernacular Architecture on Tybee Island, Savannah and the Georgia coast for 10 years. After many years of success Gary felt it was time to grow and created Sanders Architecture that follows the same ideology and the love for our coasts. Sanders Architecture has become a stable in producing designs that impact and improve coastal living.
Gary lives in Savannah full time, but travels all over our wonderful coast. He is an avid traveler, surfer, and sailor. He truly believes that Architecture should create human interactions and communities are vital to our living happily.
Gary has won Tybee Island Historical and Savannah Historical awards. He is always looking to bringing innovation and great designs that inspire and promote communities along our coasts. Gary has also taken courses at Harvard under Andres Duany and others in Urban design. This experience has taught him the importance of not only designing structures but designing communities.
Scott Trowell
Scott has been an Architectural designer in Savannah, Georgia since 2003. He was with Ciphers Design Company for 7 years designing coastal residential and commercial buildings. Sanders Architecture has given him a chance to expand and contribute on his design and knowledge of beautiful coastal design. He is a member of NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) and has completed his requirements for the IDP (Intern Development Program). He is also awaiting confirmation for testing of the ARE (architectural registration exam). Scott handled day to day operations for the company including client meetings, designing, construction documents, government approval meetings and project management. While in employment at Ciphers he was part of the design team that was awarded two Historic Preservation awards from Savannah, Georgia in 2003, and one in 2005 and a Historic Preservation award from Tybee Island, Georgia in 2007. The projects that he has worked on the in the past include residential design, commercial, institutional, multi-family, mixed use, and industrial design in the areas of Savannah, GA., Tybee Island, GA., and South East Georgia.
Scott received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Architecture and a Masters in Architecture from the Savannah College of Art and Design located in historic Savannah, Georgia. At school he won the AIAS structural design award in 2006 and the NCARB prize for Creative Integration of Practice & Education in the Academy in 2008.
In 2008 Scott Attended the Florida Solar Energy Center’s “Installing Photovoltaic Systems”. A week-long course covering the design and installation of photovoltaic (PV) systems, and involves actual hands-on work with PV systems and equipment. He is a certified photovoltaic systems designer and installer by the FSEC.
Scott is a native of Effingham County Georgia where he lives with his two sons and daughter. He was awarded Eagle Scout in 1996 and stays active in his community by donating his time with the Mars Theater in Springfield, Georgia for the Springfield Revitalization Corporation. He has been a part of the Leadership Effingham Program, a program that focuses on county government, municipal government, education, law and criminal justice, economic development, taxation, and general information about the county and state. Scott has also been a leader with a Cub Scout Pack and a Boy Scout Troop in Rincon, Georgia since 2011.