Ben Mengden

Architect | Builder | Planner | Consultant

Principal

Design, at its best, is solving problems.

Planning identifies problems, determines resources, and directs a course of action.

Consulting is communicating and helping.

Geography is understanding our world.

Building is the realization of a designed effort.

We each get one soul, one life. Let's strive to truly live and love - make things better.

There is still more we haven’t done than what we have, more we haven’t seen than what we have, and more we don’t know than what we do.

Ben Mengden has an undergraduate degree in Geography: Cartography + Photogrammetry from Texas State, a Masters of Architecture degree from University of Texas at Austin, and over a dozen years working in the design and construction world.

He has worked as a planner, consultant, designer, builder, fabricator, and architect.

He has led projects and teams.

He has been part of tiny, low cost endeavors and efforts with construction costs over $1 Billion.

He has worked with his hands and with cutting edge software to realize big dreams for multiple stakeholders across the globe.

He is licensed as an architect in the state of Texas.

He has had the blessing of getting to work with some amazing people, some excellent teams including:

City of Austin Watershed Protection under Matt Hollon and Erin Woods as an Environmental Planner
HOK in Houston TX as a Consultant on the Consulting team (Pre-Design, Programming, and Planning) and Project Architect on the Production team. There were many excellent learning opportunities from Steve Parshall, Darko Sefic, Jan Steingas, Daniel Mills, and Will Reick.
Burditt Consultants in Conroe TX as a Project Coordinator learning from everyone there but especially the patient and kind Eric Geppelt.
Okkem Design in Austin TX as an Architect and Principal and was constantly being made better by working with the innovative owners Chris Clifton and Joshua Kaufman.
Build Native Custom Homebuilders in the Central Texas area as a Superintendent learning residential construction from Nick Riza (Owner) and Les Wilcox (Ops Director).