Registered Architect, Colorado · Project Manager · Denver
Project leader by formation. Builder by trajectory.
I produce design-development and construction-document deliverables across K-12, civic, healthcare, and corporate work — and I bring a project manager’s perspective to every phase of delivery. Newly licensed as a Registered Architect in Colorado, I’m building toward long-term practice leadership.
Formal theatre training built the habit of communication that meets the audience where they are. I’m comfortable taking initiative when the brief is unclear, and I believe impactful architecture takes a holistic approach to protecting health, safety, and welfare.
A rural school becomes its town’s first sanitary system.
Seventy thousand square feet on previously unsewered ground. The school is the first move; the community waste-processing plant is the second. Rural-district K-12 means every system is exposed to weather and every dollar shows up in the wall section.
Global Headquarters tenant improvement — a Hub carved from the slab.
The defining move: cutting primary and secondary steel beams in an occupied three-story floor plate to open a community space at the building’s center. I ran construction administration — submittals, RFIs, field observations — through closeout.
An addition and renovation for an oft-missed community.
A 72,000 SF addition within a 211,000 SF campus that grew from 1961 through 2008. Re-alignment of program zones brings a new heart — the Media Center, maker space, and bleacher stair — to this home. Deliverables ran DD through CD.
A community center for the Denver Indian Center.
A place for gathering within the significance of the circle. The plan opens around a centered ceremonial hall; childcare lifts above to a roof play space. A diagonal heavy-timber lattice — no nails — wraps the building, reading as presence from the street and dappled light from within.
Private residence for a chef and a psychologist.
A home for two professionals, with strong separation between private and public realms organized around a shared courtyard accessible from every wing. Studio IV under Brad Tomacek.
I’d love to hear about the work in your studio. Reach out — whichever channel suits.
Brett Suydam, AIA, NCARB 