Bruce D. Nagel Architect

Bruce Dean Nagel was born in 1949 in San Antonio, TX. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas in 1973, and after a period of apprenticeship in Boston, studied for and received his Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1976.
Mr. Nagel has worked on many celebrated projects, such as the Faneuil Hall Marketplace project at Benjamin Thompson and Associates in Cambridge, MA in 1973, residential and institutional projects with Richard Meier and Partners from 1977 to 1979, and as senior associate at Gwathmey Siegel and Associates for six years where he worked on numerous public and private award-winning projects.
Mr. Nagel taught architecture at the Boston Architectural Center in 1975. Since that time, he has served as guest critic and juror at the architecture schools of several leading universities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard, The University of Pennsylvania, and The University of Virginia.


Each project is a unique project, because I place primary emphasis on a client-related solution, on its particular fit and suitability.
As an initial step, I request that clients record a written program describing their goals for the project and eliciting their wants and needs in as much detail as they wish. While this program is inevitably altered in the course of working out a solution, the particular tenor of my client's initial program remains a keynote throughout my design process.
I want each project to acquire through this program keynote a strong, clear idea, which is consistent with its organization. I strive thereby to functionally satisfy my client's detailed needs and to give them something more, something that only architecture can give them, as well.
In my original work on new projects, I have a strong design aesthetic, but I am also particularly respectful of existing vocabularies in performing remodelings, where I direct my efforts toward producing sensitively integrated designs.
My background includes institutional, commercial and residential projects of all scales, from major residences and commercial interiors to university buildings and urban centers, obtained while working both with previous partners and practitioners now widely known in the profession.
My practice includes a range of both residential and institutional projects, as well as commercial work, and encompasses significant projects outside of Long Island.
I am a full-service practice, one that stresses a responsive, original solution to each project, detailed construction documents and attentive overview of construction.


Architectural Record, Record House, Radler House, Bridgehampton, NY, 1985

Beauxarch IV, Award For Unbuilt Commercial Project, Viking Lines, Montauk, NY, 1986

Architecture Award (Residential), AIA Long Island, Shyer House, East Hampton, NY, 1993

Architecture Award (Institutional), AIA Long Island, Camp Blue Bay, East Hampton, NY, 1994

Best Architect in the Hamptons - Hamptons Magazine 2001

"Best Architect" In The Hamptons, Dan’s Paper, Bridgehampton, NY, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, & 2002

Best Architect in the Hamptons – Hamptons Magazine 2002


Beauxarch III, The Hampton Day School, Bridgehampton, NY, Summer, 1985

Beauxarch IV, The Hampton Day School, Bridgehampton, NY, Summer, 1986

Beauxarch '89, The Hampton Day School, Bridgehampton, NY, Summer, 1989

East Hampton Airport Exhibitions, National Institute For Architectural Education

New York, NY; Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, 5-6/90

AIA Long Island Chapter, East End Section, Exhibition, Southampton, NY, Summer 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996

Local & Global: Architecture In The Hamptons, The Southampton Cultural Center, Southampton, NY, Summer, 2000


1985 – Architectural Record - Record Houses – Radler House

1985 – House Beautiful – Radler House

1986 – Paul Goldberger’s “The Houses of the Hamptons” – Radler House

1989 - World Residential Design- Volume 4 – Casa Baeza

1991 – Newsday Fanfare – Shyer House

1993 – Rizzoli International - “The Hamptons: Long Island’s East End” –– Shyer House

1997 – Architectural Digest – Lynne House

1999- House Beautiful Magazine - Home Building Issue – Nagel House

1999 – Country Living “Dream Houses” – Children’s Playhouse

2003 – House Beautiful Magazine –Home Building Issue - Fisher House

2003 – New York Living Magazine – Architects and Home Designers – Bruce Nagel Profile


2 Main Street (London Jewelers), East Hampton, NY

Bernard Leventhal House, Wainscott, NY

Bruce Nagel Residence, East Hampton, NY

Devlin Mcniff Real Estate, East Hampton, NY

Diane Rothschild House, Sagaponack, NY

Harvey Radler Residence, Bridgehampton, NY

Jack Fisher Residence, Bridgehampton, NY

Michael Culp/Deborah Bronston Residence, Southampton, NY

Michael Kooper Residence, Sagaponack, NY

Michael Kooper Residence, Water Mill, NY

Michael Lynne House, East Hampton, NY

Micheal Shure House, Sagaponack, NY

Robert Hausen Residence, Water Mill, NY

Stephen Weber House, Shelter Island, NY

Stuart Cragin Residence, Amagansett, NY

The Country School, Nursery School, East Hampton, NY

Whitmore Early Childhood Learning Center,
East Hampton Day Care Center, Inc., East Hampton, NY

William Doyle Gallery, New York, NY


Chodorow Residence, Southampton, NY

Cohen Residence, East Hampton, NY

Frances Katz Residence, Southampton, NY

Presbyterian Church, East Hampton, NY

Roth Residence, Water Mill, NY

Rubenstein Residence, East Hampton, NY

Scott Residence, Bridgehampton, NY

Szabo Residence, Amagansett, NY

Valcich Residence, Montauk, NY