Staff Breakdown

The Design Center has six full-time employees which are entirely dedicated to the projects that the Design Center engages. Presently the combined experience of our staff exceeds 70 years in projects ranging from adaptive-reuse/renovation, institutional, multi-family residential, affordable housing, educational, cultural, commercial, and neighborhood planning.

Registered Architects: 3-4 People
15-20 years experience

Intern Architects: 2-3 People
2-5 years post academic experience

Student Assistants: 1-2 People

Design Center Demographics

Since 1995 the Design Center has had:

17 Full-time Architects and Intern Architects (does not include coops)

8 (47%) Female. National Average is 19% (AIA Fact Book)
6 (32%) African American.
National Average is 5% (AIA Fact Book)

Over 15 universities (coast to coast) are represented through the recent graduates employed by the Design Center either as student interns, or Design and Research Fellows.

Columbia University
Cooper Union
Harvard University
Lawrence Technological University
Miami University
MIT
Ohio State University
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Detroit Mercy
University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
University of Kansas
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Nebraska
University of Virginia
Washington University