Joe Mayer

It isn’t easy getting Joe to narrow the list of things he likes to do... Design, of course, is his life’s passion. But a close second is community involvement. And bike riding. And cooking. And kickball. And playing the piano. 

That diversity of interests aligns with his professional point of view. “This is a field that requires finding inspiration all around you – people, places, experiences, and perspectives,” he says. “There are countless architects, professors, colleagues and friends from college who inspire me every day.”

You know who else was an influence? His grandmother, who spotted Joe’s interest in drawing buildings and encouraged him to draft a floor plan of his parents’ home – when he was 7.  By age 9, he says, he was hooked. “I knew I wanted to be an architect and design buildings when I grew up,” he remembers, “and that never changed!”

Joe is committed to the belief that great design can help create successful communities. Since joining DesignGroup more than a decade ago, he’s achieved integrated, cohesive solutions through superb communication with myriad project stakeholders. But above all else, it’s about the design – helping clients define the problems they want to solve, building consensus around a direction that may at first appear vague or subjective, and expressing the potential impact of spaces that don’t yet exist.