While at this firm he designed residences in Westwood, Florida and Nova Scotia. The firm was also performing planning services for the US Department of Energy. Seeing Greg's work the U.S.D.E. offered Greg the position of Chief architect for the department. He chose instead to work with his father, Clark.
Heritage includes his father Clark Bloomfield who studied architecture at USC and worked with Rudolf Schindler as well as Lloyd Wright. Greg’s grandfathers, George Bloomfield and Dale Van Horn were both furniture-makers. Dale Van Horn was also an inventor whose creations were published in national periodicals together with his photographs and descriptive articles. Van horn pioneered solar water heating on his Nebraska home. Greg's parents, brothers, daughters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are all artisans, architects, interior designers and teachers thereof;
four generations in art & architecture.
Some other architects who have inspired Greg are Fred Lyman, LeCorbusier, Alvar Alto, Macintosh and Schindler. Lyman, an accomplished local architect built his small stunning house in Malibu. The ‘green’ crafted structure made a palpable impression on Greg at age 13, when published in a well known periodical.
Greg has provided architectural services for, and designed the homes of many celebrities and others of note. And many homes employ ‘green’ low carbon footprint, sustainable resource techniques.
Community service is important. Greg has served on local, national, private and civic, as well as school/youth-based organizations, in both professional and non-professional capacities. He has also been an architectural instructor, helping high school senior students explore a future in architecture.
Greg enjoys time with his three daughters, all with nationally recognized accomplishments. One daughter is currently in college, and two are collaborators in design on occasion. Sailing, painting and drawing, skiing, hiking and running are among his other favored pass-times.
Gregory Bloomfield is one of many in
four generations of artists and architects.
His father, Clark, also an architect, inspired Greg at age ten to follow in his path. They later shared a practice for twenty-five years known as Bloomfield Architects.
As a youth, Greg visited his father's construction sites and helped his grandfather build furniture. In his early teens he built model buildings of balsa wood, and began drafting in high school. During college he worked in construction and developed his watercolor rendering skills and won two awards in the field of architecture. From Santa Monica College Greg advanced to the University of California at Berkeley and was acknowledged by the Dean of Architecture as one of the most talented designers in ten years.
Greg went on to work in the San Francisco area, working for eminent firms of architecture and architectural illustration.
Declining an offer to work in Hawaii, Greg travelled to Switzerland, a childhood dream. Returning, he started a small practice in the San Francisco Bay area and soon met his wife to be.
Moving to Santa Monica to be near their families he again worked for a prestigious firm in Beverly Hills composed of the deans of Architecture and of Planning at UCLA.
