My professional experience includes master planning, site and building design to interior and furniture design. I have a strong interest in the craft of built environments and its role as a backdrop for contemporary culture. With over 30 years of experience in architecture and design, My goal is to seek innovative and sensitive design solutions by taking into account the site, surrounding resources and local culture.
In 1989 I started to engage architectural projects in Des Moines, Iowa with the 2001 AIA national firm of the year Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck (HLKB) architecture. My projects have received local, regional and national AIA awards recognition, ID and Business Week awards. These projects have been published in Architecture, ID, Architectural Record and Business Week magazine. In 2000, I relocated to Minneapolis to work on large scale projects for workplace and hospitality. Today, I strive to balance building a studio culture that is committed to excellence engaging conceptually driven design with teaching and research for the architecture department at Dunwoody College of Technology.
p-o-d, Minneapolis, MN, US, Principal
Knowles Blunck Architecture, Des Moines, IA, US, Principal
Knowles Blunck Architecture was an architecture firm dedicated to excellence in both service and design. Knowles Blunck's work ranges from small, private commissions to more prominent public and institutional works. Knowles Blunck has consistently worked to create architecture of the highest quality; an architecture of relevance carefully tailored to the needs and aspirations of each client and community. KBA was formerly AIA 2001 "firm of the year" HLKB architecture. A mid-sized firm with four decades of experience and a culture that allows it to generate a wide variety of projects.
Iowa State University College of Design, Ames, IA, US, MArch, Architecure
Iowa State University College of Design, Ames, IA, US, Bachelors, Graphic Design
