Craig Brandt is an architect, educator, and musician who leads clients and interdisciplinary design teams toward the seamless integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and technology, producing distinctive public projects which respond to the needs of a diverse settings and circumstances. He has designed, built, and collaborated on projects that focus on the synthesis of contemporary and the historic concepts. He has served as lead designer for small scale pieces, theater, and museum projects as well as for larger higher education and government projects. Craig has been involved in collaborations with artists such as Vito Acconci, Joyce Kozloff, Caleb O Connor, ornamentalist Kent Bloomer, as well as exhibit designers and museum staff. Craig’s layered approach to the quality of the public experience was significantly influenced by his early exhibited experimental work and his study during a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, recording and exhibiting how form, light, color, and patterning synthesized within the historic meanings and rituals manifest in timeless works of public architecture. Through the application of acquired technical and historic knowledge in conjunction with skills in integrative design, he has developed a process for realizing holistic and sustainable outcomes in new projects and historic renovations. 

Craig also serves as a GSA Design Excellence national peer helping to maintain the level of Design Excellence that is expected for our nation’s public buildings. In addition to his work in practice, Craig advocates for the profession by his leadership role for the American Institute of Architects Committee on Design, and with a passion for sharing with future architects, Craig teaches design studio at the University of Notre Dame and has taught design at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His teaching focuses on adaptive and regenerative design projects as well as cross-disciplinary design processes in arts and design.

Craig is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an affiliate Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.