As Principal at KDG, Brian is a regional leader of adaptive re-use architecture. He has extensive experience on many of the most well-known rehabilitation projects of the past 20 years working in Detroit. In addition to leading KDG’s work, Brian also serves as a specialty design consultant for developers tackling complex renovations. Notable projects include the Shinola Hotel, Book Tower, David Stott, Eddystone, Broderick Tower, David Whitney Building, Eastern Market sheds, and Michigan Central Station. As part of this work he has completed well over 100 historic tax credit projects and has served on the Michigan State Historic Preservation Review Board and City of Detroit Tactical Preservation Group as an expert in historic architecture.
Feeling lost in a windowless college research lab mixing test tube chemicals, I remembered a childhood vacation to the airy spaces of Gothic and Renaissance monuments and the incredible play of spatial compression and release… light and shadow… and I knew I wanted that in my life. I didn’t have the words to express it at the time, but Architecture eventually taught me how and now I get to share that passion through design.
On weekends you can find me roaming the stalls of Eastern Market planning the evening’s dockside meal after a sailboat race on Lake St Clair.
As Principal at KDG, Brian is a regional leader of adaptive re-use architecture. He has extensive experience on many of the most well-known rehabilitation projects of the past 20 years working in Detroit. In addition to leading KDG’s work, Brian also serves as a specialty design consultant for developers tackling complex renovations. Notable projects include the Shinola Hotel, Book Tower, David Stott, Eddystone, Broderick Tower, David Whitney Building, Eastern Market sheds, and Michigan Central Station. As part of this work he has completed well over 100 historic tax credit projects and has served on the Michigan State Historic Preservation Review Board and City of Detroit Tactical Preservation Group as an expert in historic architecture.
Feeling lost in a windowless college research lab mixing test tube chemicals, I remembered a childhood vacation to the airy spaces of Gothic and Renaissance monuments and the incredible play of spatial compression and release… light and shadow… and I knew I wanted that in my life. I didn’t have the words to express it at the time, but Architecture eventually taught me how and now I get to share that passion through design.
On weekends you can find me roaming the stalls of Eastern Market planning the evening’s dockside meal after a sailboat race on Lake St Clair.
