About . . . the Architect:

Penta Windmiller Architecture, PC is an AIA award winning architectural firm with offices in East Hampton and NYC. The projects range from single-family homes and renovations to corporate headquarters, most recently specializing in real estate advising and consulting both for businesses and for individuals. The most recent award received was for the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company at the Bank of America building on Wall Street.

Jifat Windmiller is president of Penta Windmiller Architecture, PC (PWA). She came to the east end to spend a summer vacation 3 years ago and has been unable to leave ever since. "I'll be in a big hurray rushing off somewhere and driving too fast, when I'll turn a corner and gasp at the site of a clump of trees, or a vista, or just the shape of the land, and I remember where I am and slow down again. This place is pure magic and I feel lucky every day that I'm here." She's been a practicing architect since 1985 and started her own firm in 1988.

In October of 2004, Ms. Windmiller was selected as one of 15 architects from the US, along with another 15 architects from across Europe, to attend a special symposium held throughout Northern Italy on the use of natural stone in all types of applications. The trip was sponsored by The Consultants International Group and the Italian Chamber of Commerce. "It was a tremendous honor and delight for all the senses to be invited to this world class event."

Terry D Van Dyne and Jifat Windmiller were introduced to each other during the mid 80's while both were working for various architectural firms in Chicago. Since the late 80's they've been both colleagues and friends. Mr. Van Dyne has made valuable contributions to all of PWA's most important projects, including the barn.

PWA's first project in the east end was in 1993, turning a small 450 SF house in Georgica into a (then considered large) 3000 square foot work of art, whereby the exterior of the old house remained intact as a portion of a dramatic new interior corridor, where the old and new merged.

Upon walking into the barn for the first time, Ms. Windmiller knew immediately what this house needed to be, and was more eager to work on this than anything she'd done in years. See and judge for yourself the result of this work of pure passion.


PWA Selected Client List:
  • Corporate Headquarters, Bank of America Building, 48 Wall Street, NYC
  • Robert Rauschenberg, ongoing projects since 1993, commercial and residential
  • Printer's Union, Local One, Amalgamated Lithographers of America - Union Square headquarters, NYC
  • NYC Department of Transportation - Control Center where the traffic lights for all 5 boroughs are managed, a joint federal,
        state, and city government project, Long Island City, Queens
  • Numerous residential projects throughout the Hamptons
  • Numerous residential projects at Trump World Headquarters, 200 Riverside Boulevard, NYC
  • Several floors of tenant office space at Rockefeller Center; a shop at the concourse level of Rockefeller Center, NYC
  • NY Veterinary Hospital, Upper East Side, NYC
  • Fertility Clinic, Upper East Side, NYC
  • Wolf + Wolfe, Biscotti factory, at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn
  • Numerous loft and apartment renovations and combinations, NYC
  • 57 Montague Street, extensive restoration to a historically significant, large multifamily apartment building overlooking the
        Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, NY
  • Gabrielle Sanchez, Fine Pearl Jewelry, Exclusive Showroom, Union Square, NYC
  • Maimonides Medical Center, Midwifery Section, Brooklyn, NY
  • Allergy Associates, Medical offices, Garden City, NY
  • Single family home, Scarsdale, NY
  • Single family home compound on the island of Nevis, The Caribbean

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