Hi, My name is Thomas Schalnat.

My ultimate goal is to reveal inspiration in unlikely places.  I believe architecture can have unique accomplishments.  I want to use the power of design to change how people view the world and their role in it.  Architecture has an impact on people’s everyday lives, whether it’s a more vibrant work environment, more engaging social and recreational places, or a  comforting home to begin and end each day.  Architecture represents what makes humans distinctively unique; we not only have an ability to change our surroundings and circumstances, but how and why something should be changed.  There is a strength and beauty to the act of designing and building.  Architecture, on its most primitive level, is a subtle message to the rest of humanity that it should not forget, or even worse ignore, its ability to alter its surroundings.