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Ellen Mitchell
Director of Sustainability + Applied Research (S+AR) Ellen Mitchell leads an in-house team of researchers and technologists tasked with helping LPA design teams clear hurdles to innovation.
Passive Design, Proactive Conversations—and a Win for Sustainable Architecture
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | Aug 14, 2025
The “Academy Award of Architecture”—the AIA Firm Award—recently went to Dallas-based LPA Design Studios. Ellen Mitchell, who directs the firm’s sustainability and applied research, sees the win as a shift toward broadening what award-winning design really means. Here’s how the firm is building modern, greener commercial spaces by starting with better questions.
