Dennis Mcgrath Design, Llc

Dennis McGrath is founder and principal of Dennis McGrath Design, LLC, a design, and architectural consulting practice in Saint Louis, Missouri since 2015, and currently a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Architecture at Washington University in Saint Louis. I was born in Saint Louis and grew up in Southwest City. I completed my Undergraduate work at the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Architecture, a Goldwin Goldsmith Merit Scholarship, and placement in the fifth-year Internship Program. After graduation I lived and practiced architecture for 16 years in Minneapolis, MN before returning to Saint Louis. Prior to establishing my own business, I was Design Director, and Practice Leader for ten years with Lawrence Group, Saint Louis. I was Senior Design Project Architect with the Target Corporation, a Senior Associate with Collins Hansen Architects, a designer at Ellerbe Becket, and MS & R Design in Minneapolis, MN. In my practice I specialize in service design for a range of clients, and project types where collaboration is required. I have a passion for balanced projects through team building, and working with clients who understand the value of broadening the definition of design, and the role it has in shaping contemporary culture. In my role as educator, I teach Environmental Systems II, Design Options-Studio, Degree Project Studio, and co-coordinate Design Thinking and Pre-Design coursework in the graduate architecture program at Sam Fox School of Design.