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2018 AIA ARCHITECTURE FIRM AWARD AN INTERVIEW WITH SNOW KREILICH ARCHITECTS BY YU-NGOK LO
Snow Kreilich Architects is the recipient of the AIA Architecture Firm Award. Now in its 55th year, the award is the institute’s highest honor for a firm. Founded by Julie Snow, FAIA, in 1995, the Minneapolisbased studio is well-known for exceptional mentoring of its talented members. Originally Julie Snow Architects, the firm was renamed Snow Kreilich Architects four years ago. In the nomination for the honor, the firm is credited with “a restrained formal elegance and a refined minimal tectonic sensibility while avoiding the nostalgic and technological excesses of our discipline.”
Aksel Coruh
Christina Stark, AIA
Jason Dannenbring, AIA
Katie Myhre, AIA
Mike Heller, Assoc. AIA
Matthew Tierney, AIA
Natalya Egon, AIA
joined Snow Kreilich Architects in 2015. She holds an MArch from the University of Minnesota and a BS in architecture from the University of Texas-Arlington.
is an architect and project manager at Snow Kreilich Architects. She holds a bachelor of fine art degree in interior design from Iowa State University and an MArch and ecological design certificate from the University of Oregon. She is a LEED accredited professional and obtained licensure as an architect and certified interior designer in 2017.
is a registered architect whose training, research, and career have focused on thoughtful design solutions embedded in place. In addition to projects in the US, he has worked extensively in East Africa with nonprofit organizations and continues to do so within Snow Kreilich’s office.
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Yu-Ngok Lo (YL): Tell us about your firm’s culture (for example, studio culture, hierarchy structure – if any). Snow Kreilich Architects is a very diverse firm, with 50 percent of your staff consisting of women and minorities. Why do you think this is important?
Matthew Kreilich, FAIA
is a design principal at Snow Kreilich Architects in Minneapolis and the heart of the firm's collaborative working model. He was recently a juror for the Progressive Architecture Award and continues to participate on AIA juries throughout the country, as well as lecturing in academic and professional settings.
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The CONNECTION team reached out to Matthew Kreilich, FAIA, and other emerging professionals at the firm to share their success story.
THE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM
is a Dutch architect who practiced at Claus en Kaan Architecten in Rotterdam and Neri & Hu Research and Design office in Shanghai. He has been a visiting critic at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and received grants from the Mondriaan Foundation and the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BVKB).
has been with Snow Kreilich since 2016. He received his MArch from Princeton University and his BA in architecture from the University of Minnesota.
left a career in physics after developing a deep appreciation for the power of light and shadow in architecture. He attended Washington University in St. Louis and is currently working on multi-family housing projects.
joined Snow Kreilich Architects in 2016. She is active in academia and teaches architecture studios at the University of Minnesota. She received her MArch from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BS in architecture from the University of Minnesota.