Harry Elson Principal Harry Elson is founder and principal of Harry Elson Architect PC. A registered architect in New York, he earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Virginia, after receiving a B.A. with Honors in American Studies from Brown University. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, where he was awarded prizes in Art and American History, and attended Eton Collage in England. After practicing architecture with the New York firms of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates and Edward Larrabee Barnes & Partners, he went on to establish Elson + Gold in 1993, a partnership that continued until 1998, when the firm became Harry Elson Architect PC.