Judd Peterson (MArch, 1987)
President, Judd Allen Group
As chair, Peterson is most proud that the Building Enclosure Council of Minnesota (BEC - Minnesota) along with AIA Minnesota, AIA National, NIBS, BETEC, US Dept of Energy, and Oak Ridge Laboratories organized the first Building Enclosure Science & Technology (BEST 1) Conference in Minneapolis, June 2008. Participants, experts in building enclosure technology including several from the University of Minnesota, came from all over the world for a three day discussion about the latest technologies in the field. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak greeted the participants with a description of the efforts of the city to improve building performance.

Barbara Lyons Stewart (MArch, 1978)
Owner, Lyons Stewart Architects
Stewart was the feng shui architect for the west coast office of The Republic of Tea. Recent projects include the interior design for clients including the AIA San Francisco chapter office, Anshen + Allen Architects, and ABC/KGO TV. Stewart co-authored Feng Shui: A Practical Guide for Architects and Designers in 2006 and is presently working on her second book, From Cave to Condo and Corner Office: 18 Ancient Design Principles that will Make us Happier and Healthier Today.

Paul Snyder (BA Arch, 1974 and BArch, 1978)
Senior partner, ATS&R, Inc.
Snyder is currently working with USAID and the Kingdom of Jordan developing new school designs to help the kingdom better educate it's population and develop a knowledge Economy. In 1999, Snyder received the Grand Prize award for Centennial Middle School as the best new school in America.

Eric Mikkonen (BS Arch, 2002 and MArch, 2007)
Intern architect, Mohagen and Hansen Architectural Group
Mikkonen designed Senator Amy Klobuchar's office space at 1200 Wshington Ave., Minneapolis using geen materials, including bio-composite solid surfaces, recycled carpets, and demountable wall systems. He also designed the St. Paul Preparatory School, an international high school on the first floor of Galtier Plaza in St. Paul.

Susan Blumentals (BArch, 1959)
Founding principal, Blumentals/Architecture, Inc.
Blumentals is enjoying being retired from the profession after 50 years of actively being involved in both work and AIA. She is one of very few Minnesota female grads to achieve fellowship in AIA, and presidency of AIA Minnesota, Minnesota Architectural Foundation, and the Board of Registration.

Stephen Oliver (BED, 1997 and MArch, 2000)
Project manager and designer, Mohagen Hansen Architectural Group

Gregory Kraus (BS, 2003)
Designer, Otogawa-Anschel Design-Build
Kraus recently won the 2008 Remodeler of Merit Award (ROMA) for a basement design in the under 1,000 square feet category as well as an Honorable Mention for the National 2008 Master Design Awards in the category of Kitchens over $100,000.

Louise Brodman (BArch, 1980)
Architect/owner, Edgewater Architects
Brodman has completed the first LEED platinum house in Rhode Island.

Randolph Hansen (BArch, 1971)
President, InterPlan Inc.
Hansen has received an AIA Gold Medal and the John Stetson Award for outstanding service to the profession from Palm Beach Chapter AIA. He is currently serving on the Planning, Zoning, and Appeals Board for the city of Palm Beach Gardens.

Barbara Tello (B.S. Arch, 2003 and MArch, 2006)
Volunteer
Tello is working for a non-governmental organization in Chiapas, Mexico.

William Wells (BS Arch, 2003 and MArch, 2007)
Designer, Wells and Company
Wells designed the Ivy women's clothing store in Uptown (Minneapolis).

Nicole Pierson (BA Arch, 2001 and MArch, 2005)
Intern architect, The Urban Studio
Pierson recently finished rehabilitating a hardware store in Rochester.

Shawn Keltner (BA Arch, 2000 and MArch, 2007)
Lead designer, tecDESIGN, Inc./tecArchitecture AG
Keltner has received two AIA Los Angeles Design awards since working in Los Angeles, including one for the design of a 150-foot yacht.

Simon Beeson (MArch, 1995)
Course leader, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Beeson has recently established a new undergraduate program in architecture at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Following a first pilot year of 18 students in 2007, the school welcomed 40 new students in October 2008.

Betsy Vohs (MArch, 2004)
Senior project designer, Gensler

Mark Merrill (BArch, 1966)
Architect/project manager, Hennepin County Property Services
Merrill will retire from Hennepin County, fall 2008.

Nate Heuss (BA Arch, 1996 and MArch, 1999)
Project architect, Mudrovich Architects

Mark Aspaas (BArch, 1973)
Vice president, Architecture Incorporated
Aspaas was recently elected as secretary of the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB).

Melissa Cosier (BS, 2008)
Graduate student
Cosier will be attending NC State in the fall to pursue a master of architecture degree.

Jason Weinbeck (BA Arch, 2001)
Owner, Jason Weinbeck Design
Weinbeck will be featured in the Summer 2009 issue of Atomic Ranch Magazine and the October 2008 issue of Minneapolis/St.Paul magazine.

Mark Queripel (MArch, 1980)
Founder, Terra Verde Architects, LLC.

Jeff Hanson (MArch, 2000)
Subject matter expert/technical writer, Autodesk Inc.
Hanson also teaches Revit at the Boston Architectural College and recently gave a presentation on alternate career paths for architects at the AIA national convention in Boston.

Craig Hess (BArch, 1972)
Vice president and quality assurance director, Elness Swenson Graham Architects, Inc.
In June, 2008 Hess was appointed to the Minnesota Department of Labor & Industry, Construction Codes & Licensing Division, State Appeals Board.

Larry Hurwitz (MArch, 1979)
Manager facility services, Puget Sound Energy
Hurwitz was recently elected to the board of directors of the Seattle Chapter AIA.

Andrew Stella (BA Arch, 2005)
CAD architectural planner, Walgreen Co.

Julia McFadden (MArch, 2004)
Junior project manager, Svigals + Partners
Known for the rich combination and imaginative use of sculpture in architecture, Svigals has designed projects for more than 200 clients throughout the northeast including Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration, City of Hartford, Eastman Kodak Company, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Cellular Genomics, CuraGen Corporation, Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, and a host of Connecticut elementary schools.

Thomas Hilde (BS, 2007)
Student services coordinator, Institute of Production and Recording
Hilde worked a fall internship in Toronto with urban planning firm Urban Strategies, Inc., consultants for the Central Corridor planning in St. Paul.

Dennis Johnson (BA Arch, 1954 and BArch, 1958)
Architect and planner (retired 2005), Stonorov and Haws
Johnson is almost fully retired and spending summers on Deer Lake near Grand Rapids. He winters in suburban Philadelphia.

Mark Larson (MArch, 1993)
Architect, prinipal, and co-owner, Rehkamp Larson Architects, Inc.
Larson is completing a LEED-certified idea house, built by Dovetail Renovation to be published this fall in Progressive Farmer magazine and open to the public for tours.

Melissa Ekman (BA, 2002)
Architectural designer, Miller Dunwiddie Architecture
Ekman oversaw the construction phase of the exterior stabilization of Folwell Hall at the University of Minnesota.

Wayne Holtan (BED., 1977 and BArch, 1977)
Principal, dominy+associates architects @ domus studio
Holtan participated with the California Architects Board in development of an occupational analysis survey of practicing architects. The results were used to serve as the basis for the development of the test plan for the California Supplemental Exam, part of the state architectural licensing process.

Gregg Gossens (MArch, 1980)
President, Gossens Bachman Architects
Gossens is the past president of the Vermont Chapter of AIA and recipient of more than 25 state, regional, and national design awards.

Jane Hession (MArch, 1995)
Architectural researcher and writer
Hession is the president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and author of the book Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-59, which won the 2008 Independent Publishers' Gold Medal in Architecture.

Gary Milne Rojek (MArch, 1992)
Principal, Bentz/Thompson/Rietow, Inc.
Milne Rojek received NCARB certification this year and is now a registered architect in four states. His firm was recently awarded the Hennepin County Southdale Regional Center renovation project and the expansion to the Minneapolis Jewish Day School.

Peter Harmatuck (BS, 2004)
Architectural design, Merrill Pastor & Colgan Architects
Harmatuck recently attended a ten-day design charrette in St. Petersburg, Russia with an international interdisciplinary team to design a hotel and new community just west of St. Petersburg.

Steven Groth (BArch, 1982)
Project architect/computer system manager, Uihlein/Wilson Architects
Groth recently completed a 600-bed residence hall at the University of Wisconsin, which won a national AGC Marvin M. Black partnering award. He is currently working on the restoration of a Frank Lloyd Wright American system built home in Milwaukee, and a renovation at the Milwaukee County Historical Society.

Leonard Lampert III (MArch, 1974)
Principal architect, Leonard Lampert Architects, P.A.
Lampert's firm recently completed it's 28th year with over 2,000 completed projects throughout the midwest.

Danny Welch (BA, 1999)
Project architect, Rafael Vinoly
Welch was recently hired by Rafael Vinoly Architects as project architect for a major research facility for the University of Texas system.

Brian Lindgren (MArch, 1992)
Project architect, RDG Planning & Design
Lindgren's current project under construction is the University of Iowa Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

Michael Roehr (MArch, 1996)
Owner/design principal, RoehrSchmitt Architecture, LLC
RoehrSchmitt Architecture received two RAVE awards in August (sponsored by AIA & Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine), and their Juliet House will be featured in the spring issue of Fine Homebuilding magazine.

Robert Taylor (BArch, 1969)
Draftstman, Cerny Associates
Taylor created and is setting up a program so that all graduating seniors at Sedona Red Rock High School have an opportunity for post-secondary education.

Robert Findlay (BArch, 1967)
Professor emeritus, Iowa State University
Since retiring from Iowa State University, Findlay completed two Peace Corps/Crisis Corps assignments in disaster management in the Cook Islands and in El Salvador. He was elected to the board of the National Peace Corps Association. He is the trust board vice president for conservation of the Olmsted Bros. designed Dunn Gardens in Seattle and served as juror for AIASWWA and Spokane design awards.

Mark Nickelson (BS, 2005)
Project engineer, Knutson Construction
Nickelson just completed project management for one of the first LEED certified interior office spaces in the area, located on two full floors of a high-rise in Minneapolis.

Jayson Claude (BA Arch, 1998 and MArch, 2006)
Technical architect, edificaciones ramos s.a.
Claude has completed a variety of historic preservation works.

William Armstrong (BArch, 1969)
Senior architect/project manager, TKDA
Armstrong was appointed to the Minnesota State Designer Selection Board as a public member in 2007.

John Jurewicz (BArch, 1985)
Owner, A ARCHITECTS, Inc.
A ARCHITECTS, Inc. was the first firm to design a hotel for Hilton, fully using building information modeling and hold a patent on their mobile office.

Stephen James (MArch, 1999)
Director of planning and community design, Kennecott Land - Rio Tinto
James won the 2008 Ralph Rapson Travelling Fellowship competition. His planning and design work was featured in a recent Urban Land Institute publication, Developing Sustainable Planned Communities.

Jacob Welhouse (BS Arch, 2004)
Project manager, Kim Grant Design, Inc.
Welhouse was part of a team that received a 2008 Honor Award from the American Planners Association for Outstanding Planning of the City of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, while he was with Barbour LaDouceur Architects.

Benjamin Lindau (MArch, 2006)
Architect/designer, Ellerbe Becket

Rich Varda (MArch 1977)
Senior vice president, store design, Target Corp.
Varda acted as the lead designer for the Musical Instrument Museum under construction in Phoenix.