Svigals served on the faculty of Yale School of Architecture from 2003-2009, and has frequently acted there as a visiting critic.
Svigals' early firm clients included the City of New Haven, Computer Associates International, Kodak, and residences for Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley, New York, NY, and Keith Richards and Patti Hansen, Weston, CT.
[3] Major buildings completed by the firm that include large-scale sculptural works by Mr. Svigals include the Carroll School of Management (Fulton Hall) at Boston College, the Center for Undergraduate Education at University of Connecticut in Storrs, the New Academic Center at Albertus Magnus College, and several public schools in New Haven.
[5][6] In 2019, Mr. Svigals was appointed to be a Fellow at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, better known as the d.school, at Stanford University to "Re-Imagine School Safety.
[8] For instance, the December 28, 1992 strip[9] features a reference to Barry Svigals as trying to bribe character Zonker Harris to publicly mention his name.