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LPA Design Studios
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.
by Lance Murray |
Sep 15, 2023
Dallas-based LPA Design Studios has added industry veteran John Hoenig as managing director of structural engineering, guiding structural design across civic, education, science and technology, healthcare, and commercial projects....
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 8, 2023
LPA Design Studios has hired D. Alex John, Jr. as an associate principal and design director of the firm’s growing Dallas commercial studio.
A veteran Dallas design leader, John will lead design teams on a wide range of projects, including commercial, science and technology, civic and cultural, residential, and mixed-use developments....
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