Brook Louis Meier (B.A. Arch '98) has joined the Milwaukee office of architecture and experience design firm Kahler Slater as a project leader in the firm's higher education practice area. In his new role, Meier will be responsible for developing new business opportunities, managing project teams and leading design efforts on a variety of higher education projects across the country.
 
Meier has returned to Milwaukee after working in Kolkata, India for five years. There, he was a founder and director of Research Design Office, an architecture firm with studios in Kolkata; Hyderabad, India; Bangalore, India; and Milwaukee. Research Design Office was recently named one of the top 20 young firms working in India by Indian Architect & Builder magazine. He has served as the lead designer on many large-scale projects, including the J.P. Sahu Institute's first college campus in Siliguri, India, the Sindhi Cultural Centre in Gujarat, India, and a new 1,800-unit low-income housing development in Kolkata.
 
Previously, he served as the head of business development in Asia for Aventūr LLC, an architecture firm based in St. Paul, Minn., as a project designer at Vetter Denk Architecture in Milwaukee, and as a designer at La Dallman Architects in Milwaukee. While with La Dallman Architects, he led the Marsupial Bridge & Urban Plaza project connecting Milwaukee's East Side to the Beerline neighborhood.
 
Meier has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
 
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