Brian Covington '77

Brian Covington ’77 is a principal with Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP. Brian directs the firm's interior decoration department as well as integrating interior architecture and decoration on many of their projects. Ferguson & Shamamian is widely recognized for residential design in traditional styles—from rural cottages to country estates—including interior design and gardens.

As a Trinity Prep student, Brian designed scenery for all the school productions, including ”You Can’t Take it With You,” ”Diary of Anne Frank,” ”Little Mary Sunshine,” ”Ten Little Indians,” ”Black Comedy,” and ”The Boyfriend.” He won the state thespian competition for scenery design in both his junior and senior years for ”A Man for All Seasons” and ”Androcles and the Lion,” respectively.

During his freshman year at Rollins, Brian constructed and painted scenery for theater productions. After 10 weeks working in summer stock at The Pocano Playhouse in Pennsylvania, he returned to Orlando and designed scenery for three of the Civic Theater mainstage productions, as well as the summer season at the Annie Russell Theater at Rollins. He moved to New York City in 1979 and worked in various capacities at scenic studios, including on two Woody Allen films, ”Starlight Express” and ”The Purple Rose of Cairo,” and the Circle in the Square production of ”Major Barbara.” He majored in scenery and costume design, with coursework in art history, modern, art, and architecture, at SUNY-Purchase, where he designed a production of ”Romeo and Juliet” under guest director Gerald Freedman. After several more design projects for the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Houston and Syracuse Opera Companies, Brian worked on interior design and architectural projects for Jerome Sutter. He continued work as a consultant for other designers and began to build a clientele of his own. In 1998 Brian joined Ferguson & Shamamian. Widely published in books and magazines, the firm was honored with the prestigious 2003 Arthur Ross Award for Architecture from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America.

Brian remembers the welcoming environment and encouragement that was so abundant at Trinity Prep. He particularly credits his teachers, Anne Juergens and Gloria Houghton, who inspired him and his friends to “go out and do things we never would have dreamed of doing on our own.”