architecture – KC STUDIO

September 30, 2026

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Architect Tom Nelson’s vision shaped skylines and careers

For the late Tom Nelson, architecture was a means to imagine a better life, not only for his clients but for the community and the civic realm at large.

May 20, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Long down for the count, the 150-year-old Sauer Castle is on the way to a rebirth

A century and a half after German immigrant Anton Sauer built a palatial residence on a bluff near the Kansas River, its new owner is showing a visitor the rubble and the glory that define the historic home’s present and future.

May 7, 2024

Arts News: A Kansas City Landmark Returns

On Memorial Day 2022 an important historical landmark opened to the public in Mount Washington Cemetery for the first time in nearly a century.

February 27, 2023

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Architect’s Imprint on the City is Unmistakable — and Complicated

The architect Moshe Safdie has earned a reputation as a visionary designer and thinker with a global portfolio.

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October 2, 2019

Award-Winning Architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee to Speak at Mary Atkins Lecture Series

Johnston Marklee’s “Vault House” is situated on a beach site in Oxnard, California. (photo by Eric Staudenmaier) Since its founding in 1995, the Mary Atkins..

September 17, 2018

Arts New: Architect Marlon Blackwell to Speak at Annual Mary Atkins Lecture

In 1995 the Mary Atkins Lecture Series was established to honor and foster the legacy of Mary McAfee Atkins, whose bequest, combined with that of William Rockhill Nelson, provided funding for the building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

September 14, 2016

Nelson-Atkins Lecture Series Features the “Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World”

Kansas City’s skyline is ever-changing. The Mary Atkins Lecture Series at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art offers an annual forum for looking at the evolution of architecture here and abroad.

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April 25, 2013

Guggenheim Museum’s Director Started Art Appreciation in KC

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has a direct link to Kansas City through its director, Richard Armstrong. A Pembroke Hill School graduate,..

December 19, 2012

Building The Arts

We had the pleasure of leading the planning effort for the 2012 AIA Kansas City Design Excellence Awards, held last November at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Design Awards is the signature event for our AIA chapter, and we always eagerly anticipate the projects that epitomize the talent, creativity, and vision of our local architecture community.

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