Program Manager John Dwyer

Aims and expectations

Dunwoody Architecture was founded in response to our profession's massive change in the wake of the Great Recession with a singular mission: to make the profession stronger. What follows is the current, but evolving list of fundamental issues capable of radically evolving the profession or architecture.

1. Diversity - Our work evolves in the presence of diverse minds. Diversity, as in nature, is essential to survival.

2. Economic Responsibility - We see massive opportunity in working toward a new paradigm of architectural practice that measurably defines its value and, as a result, generates a new cultural paradigm of its economic benefit.

3. Localism - We see an opportunity for the value and relevance of the profession to drastically expand by shedding the urge to import and progressing toward a strong commitment to the local profession.

4. Technological Agility - The tools with which we conceive, measure, document, fabricate and build buildings are increasing exponentially in quality and quantity. We see an enormous opportunity to harness technology as a means toward realizing architecture that finally considers the massive data that effects the built world.

5. Licensure - We see licensure as critical to the health of the profession and an imperative to practice.

Short CV

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture - University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture - 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Community Design Studio @ NENA - Founder - Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow 2006-2008
D/O Dwyer Oglesbay Architects - Founder and Principal 2015-Present

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Dunwoody Architecture - Founder and Program Manager 2012-Present

AFFILIATIONS
American Institute of Architects - Member
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards - Member
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - Member

AWARDS
AIA Minnesota Honor Award - 2015
AIA National Young Architect Award - 2013
AIAS National Emerging Practice Award - 2008
AIA Minnesota Young Architect Award - 2009

PUBLICATIONS
“Design and the Social Contract”, Implications, by Thomas Fisher, Fall 2008.
“Inspired Infrastructure”, Utne Reader, May-June 2006.
“When the Lower Ninth Posed Proudly”, The New York Times, by Deborah Sontag, February 9, 2006.
“The Clean Hub”, Design Like You Give A Damn, co-authors Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, December 2005.

SELECT WORKS
The Clean Hub - Decentralized Infrastructure - Worldwide - 2004
L9 Gallery and Studio - New Orleans, LA - 2007
Nordic Light - Single Family Residential - Saint Paul, MN - 2015
Bearden Place - High Density, Low Rise Affordable Housing - Minneapolis, MN - 2012
Independent Filmmaker Project - Marsden/Gustafson Gallery - Saint Paul, MN - 2016
The Carbon Rune - Public Furniture - Battery Park New York, New York - 2014
Infill - Self Built Single Family Home - Saint Paul, MN - 2013