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KAREN P. SWANSON received her
Master of Architecture degree with honors from the University of
Illinois in Chicago in 1989 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the
University of Michigan in 1980. She began her professional
career with the Chicago firms of Loebl, Schlossman and Hackl,
Environ Architects, and the world-renowned firm of Tigerman,
McCurry Architects. In 1989 she relocated to Michigan and worked
with Luckenbach Ziegelman and Partners. In 1992 she left the
firm to form a partnership with her father, Robert Saarinen
Swanson, marking the fourth generation of an architectural
practice begun with the internationally known Eliel Saarinen.
Karen also served as adjunct professor of design at the
University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture.
Ms. Swanson received two AIA Honor Awards design from the Detroit
Chapter, one for a unique mixed use project and a second for a
progressive corporate office project. She is a member of the
American Institute of Architects, and is currently assisting in
the research for a publication regarding the work of her
grandmother, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson. Past affiliations include:
Metropolitan Children’s Museum Board Member; University of
Michigan Alumni Society Board of Governors; Furniture Resource
Center Chair Affair Benefit participant; Public Relations Task
Force member for the Michigan Society of Architects; Detroit
Chapter AIA Honor Awards chair; Cranbrook Art Academys’ Art
and Antique Auction committee member and Collision in Cool
committee member; AIA Michigan Design Retreat participant;
Artists Market Dollhouse benefit auction participant; Her work
has been featured in “Contract Magazine”, “Hour Detroit”
and the Detroit and Ann Arbor News.
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GLENDA L. MEADS received degrees in
both Architecture and Environmental Studies from the University
of Waterloo in August 1988. She participated in the Rome Study
Program and interned with the internationally renowned firm of
Arthur Erikson Architects in Toronto. She came to Michigan in
1989 and worked for Victor Saroki and Associates until 1992 when
she formed Studio Pellegrina, a sole architectural practice and
served as adjunct professor of design at University of Detroit
Mercy School of Architecture.
In 2000 Glenda received the AIA Detroit Young Architect of the Year
award for overall excellence in the field of Architecture. She
has also been recognized with an AIA Michigan Honor Award for
the Townsend Park Town homes in Birmingham, Michigan. Her
previous practice, Studio Pellegrina, received a Historic
Preservation Award for the Eli Wooster Landmark Home built in
1876. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects
and a board member of the Birmingham Historical Society.
Past affiliations include: AIA House Tour Committee member and chair;
City of Birmingham Historic District and Design Review
Commissioner; AIA Public Awareness Committee Member; AIA Women
in Architecture Committee member; Furniture Resource Center
Chair Affair Benefit participant; AIA Michigan Design Retreat
Participant. Her work has been featured in “Young
Architects/Planners and Their Clients”, AIA National Forum “Rebuilding
Downtown”, “Hour Detroit” and “Style” Magazines.
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ROBERT SAARINEN SWANSON has over
50 years of experience highlighted by numerous design and AIA
Honor Awards and a broad spectrum of project types. He
began his professional career with the firm of Saarinen,
Swanson, Saarinen Architects in Bloomfield Hills. Later,
in association with his father he became president of Swanson
Associates, Inc. Architects, Engineers & Planners. He
simultaneously formed a satellite office, Swanson/ Hofland in
Harbor Springs, Michigan, specializing in resort design and
planning. In 1977, he established Robert Saarinen Swanson
Architect as sole practitioner, later partnering with Karen P.
Swanson AIA.
Special project include Cranbrook
Academy of Art Lecture Hall, Bloomfield Hills; Lone
Pine/Bloomfield Hills Office Center, Bloomfield Hills; several
projects at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, including
the Art and Architecture building; Kresge Library, Oakland
University; L'Arbre Croche Development, Harbor Springs; Hills of
Line Pine Development, Bloomfield Hills, D'Arcy, McManus &
Masius Office Building, Bloomfield Hills; Residences in Hawaii,
Eleuthera, Harbor Springs, Ann Arbor, East Lansing and
Bloomfield Hills.
Mr. Swanson is a member of the
American Institute of Architects and has served on the Board of
Governors for Cranbrook Art Academy since 1971. He has
been an active member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham since
1955. He has served on several committees for the Detroit
Chapter AIA and Michigan Society of Architects.
Mr. Swanson received his Bachelor of
Architecture from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and
his Master of Architecture from M.I.T. in Cambridge |
