Episode 75: The Journey to Licensure: Influences and Decisions

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Episode 75: The Journey to Licensure: Influences and Decisions

Layers of Design Podcast

32 minutes 42 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 75: The Journey to Licensure: Influences and Decisions

Hey listeners, in this episode, I have the pleasure of conversing with Garfield Peart, the Director of the Atlanta Studio for Moody Nolan Architects with over 25 years of experience in the industry. He is also the 2023-2025 Georgia State Representative to the American Institute of Architects Strategic Council. Garfield is a Registered Architect in the State of Georgia and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Bach. of Architecture at Howard University and MBA in Sustainability Business with a concentration in Green Development from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve with over 27 years of service.

Prior to Moody Nolan, Garfield was the President of his own design practice, Syntony Design Collaborative LLC. The firm’s mission was to design healthy and integrated buildings that help empower urban communities to be more sustainable and combat historic equity issues. Garfield is also passionate about increasing access to the profession for underserved communities.

Garfield is co-founder and Chairman of the SPIKE Studio, Inc., an Atlanta-based educational non-profit (501.c.3) organization started in 2004 that is dedicated to the exposure of inner-city high school youth to the profession of architecture.

Garfield is an active advocate for community engagement, historic preservation, the creative arts, and diversity. His other honors and organizations include the 2021 class of the Christopher Kelley Leadership Development Program, past Commissioner, Atlanta Urban Design Commission, past National Treasurer and South Region Vice-President for the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), 2019 Dorothy Spence Citizen Architect Award, and 2016 James Gant Fausett, FAIA Service to the Profession Award from AIA Atlanta Chapter and 2012 Ford Freedom Unsung Heroes Award, by the Ford Motor Company and Atlanta Center for Civil and Human Rights. His articles and work on diversity and sustainability have been featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Saporta Report, Curbed Atlanta, VoyageATL, and Design Equilibrium, a publication of AIA Atlanta.