Christopher & Jenny Liberatos, principals of Liberatos Architects.

Liberatos Architects is a boutique architecture firm designing custom homes as well as commercial and institutional buildings in a range of traditional styles. We specialize in designing new buildings that “fit in” to historic neighborhoods, as well as renovations and additions to historic properties.

Christopher and Jenny Liberatos are the firm principals. Graduates of the College of Charleston, the University of Virginia, both having received their Masters of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame, Christopher and Jenny are dedicated to their craft and give personal attention to every project in the office.

There is no typical project at Liberatos Architects, our process depend on the size and location of your project. In general, a building’s design will take shape during the Schematic design phase, while the details will be developed and finalized during the Design development and Construction documents phases. In all projects we work closely with our clients to ensure the design meets their needs and aesthetic preferences.

Please get in touch, we look forward to hearing from you!

— Christopher & Jenny Liberatos

📞 (843) 743-4224

✉️ info@liberatosarchitects.com


Our Approach

We believe there is a place for traditional architecture in our time, that there is wisdom in traditional architecture that contributes not only to the longevity of a building - pitched roofs, projecting eaves, drips, moldings and ornament that redirect water, sills, etc. - but also, of course, to the beauty of a building. 

The principles of traditional architecture are timeless and cross-cultural, they are universal yet capable of producing an endless variety of uniquely beautiful particulars. The beauty found in traditional architecture reflects the rhythms and proportions found in the human body and throughout all of Nature.

We believe in the importance of good manners and that etiquette extends into the design world. Most buildings should fit in when necessary, some should stand out when appropriate. Both kinds should be well-proportioned and beautifully detailed.

Bad design is harmful to the human spirit. Dissonant proportions enter the body through the eyes and cause subconscious irritation and dis-ease just as dissonant sound can. Good proportions cost no more than bad ones.

There are no new ideas. What seems new is actually a novel configuration or composition of preexisting ideas. Art, therefore, is fundamentally imitative, and the art of design lies in knowing what, where, and how to imitate.

“We should ask our architects that our buildings

be not only of our time but of our place.

If we do this we can hope for

another age of distinguished architecture.”


Awards, Publications & Features

Rottier Prize for New Construction, Single house in Charleston, 2024

Norfolk, VA Design Guidelines for new construction in a Historic District, 2023

Carolopolis Award for New Construction, Charleston Single house on Queen Street, 2023

Building a More Beautiful Borlänge, 2020

Vision for Civic Conservation & Case Study for A New Neighborhood in a Historic District, 2018

Charleston Home Magazine, May 2017

TEDx Charleston, “Our Disposable Architecture” 2015

Traditional Building Magazine, The Forum, October 2015

CNU 26, Designing for Vitality and Authenticity

INTBAU Havana, A New Preservation Charter, 2015

Vitruviana, “Practical Lessons in Classicism from Charleston’s First Sources”, 2014

Institute of Classical Architecture, “What is Classicism?” 2014

Sir John Soane Museum Foundation Fellowship, 2012

“As human beings we are meant not simply for solving economic problems on a tottering platform, but for solving all the problems of the material life into which we have been placed by the laws of nature.”

 - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 1969