Sven Shockey, AIA

Sven, is a national Design Director at SmithGroup and has led the planning and design of Mixed-Use Commercial, Science + Tech, and Higher Education projects on prominent sites throughout the United States. Sven has a passion for a rigorous idea-driven process that incorporates research and next-generation computational analysis methods. His design leadership emphasizes site-specificity, placemaking, and sustainability resulting in numerous awards in architecture, historic preservation, sustainability, innovation, and planning. His recent projects include the DC-Water Headquarters, the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab PPIC building.