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Our Team Listens, Designing with Purpose - Building With Integrity
Every project begins with understanding—the people who will use the space, the purpose it serves, and the context it inhabits. With decades of architectural experience, Maxwell Architectural Services' work combines design precision with practical vision to create spaces that endure.
Our Mission
To deliver thoughtful & responsive architectural design that unites functionality, efficiency, and beauty. Each project is approached as a collaboration—where technical expertise meets creative problem-solving to bring lasting value to clients and communities alike.
Meet the Founder
With over 40 years in architecture, Maxwell has led design and construction projects for leading global brands, including Toyota, Nissan, and major industrial firms. His career spans large-scale commercial, manufacturing, and institutional facilities. Today, he brings that same depth of expertise to new work across hospitality, education, faith-based, and civic developments—blending innovation with experience to serve a broader range of community needs.
A Process Grounded in Collaboration
My process is simple: listen deeply, plan thoughtfully, and execute with precision. Each phase—from concept to construction—is guided by open communication and a commitment to quality. I believe the best outcomes come from aligning vision with reality through design that stands the test of time.
The Artist Behind the Architect
Beyond design, I explore architecture through the lens of photography—studying light, texture, and form as artistic expressions. My photography practice celebrates the beauty and rhythm of built spaces, revealing how art and architecture continually shape one another.
A Lifetime in Architecture
I believe in design excellence, personability, and leadership.
SENIOR LEVEL ARCHITECT and INTERIOR DESIGNER
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- Senior-level architect with 30+ years of design, detailing, interiors, and management experience.
- Design expertise in multiple styles—exceptional detailer.
- Innovative in the design of the structure and its architectural expression/incorporation.
- Leader and capable change agent, refining cost-saving construction strategies—even during construction as required.
- Enthusiastic problem-solver with keen ability to assess, address & develop action plans, leading teams to meet or exceed deadlines.
- Effective team communicator, relationship builder, and teacher—disseminating information effectively between disciplines and engendering collaborative spirit within the teams.
- Award-winning outcomes (performed contract): Coral Casino at The Biltmore, Santa Barbara; the remodel of San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito
- Award-winning fine art photographer, printmaker, and sculptor—2008 to Present
- Blacksmithing Teacher—Allan Hancock Community College, Santa Maria, CA, 2014/15
ARCHITECTURAL &/or CONTRACT EXPERIENCE
Orr Residence—2017/18 Attic Conversion to Master Suite—Buckhead, GA
Williams Associates—2015 2 Church Remodels—Bowling Green, KY
As-built drawings from the construction of the Pismo Beach home, as well as DD’s and CD’s for the home and grounds. Responsible for architectural remodel, interiors, and landscape in a three-stage project.
Helped secure the recovery work at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans for Campo Associates in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Led the architectural work for the restoration of four of the city's oldest historical structures, including the two North turrets of the original fort and two of the earliest officers’ quarters (listed in the National Register). Additionally, in charge of the DD’s CDs for two new LEED barracks at Jackson Barracks and both of the LEED Readiness Centers in Bogalusa and Slidell, Louisiana, for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Coral Casino: Forensic drawings and documentation of the existing facility; planning, DDs & CD’s
San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito, CA – Field Measurement and working drawings
Provided the CDs for approximately 10 million square feet of outdoor shopping complexes in the Southeast for AIG Baker. All work was delivered on time and/or ahead of schedule.
Provided some DDs and all the CDs for The Briggs’ Residence at The Preserve at Santa Lucia, Carmel Highlands, and also the Sandrini Residence remodel, Pebble Beach.
Easthampton Country Club, Easthampton, NY, and Keowee Golf & Country Club, South Carolina: DD’s and CD’s, among others.
President, CEO: in charge of the manufacture, marketing, sales, and distribution of the deer-hunting tree stand product (patent #5,642,789 and 5,641,036).
DDs & CDs for the Austin Peay Student Center, U.T. Martin Field House design, Trinity Episcopal Church (historic structure restored after tornado damage), Kenwood High School, Rosswood High School, and numerous other structures.
CDs contracted through Mitch Barnett, Nashville
Includes: Bob Ferguson—Bluefield, KY High School; R.L. Light—Brentwood Methodist Church Addition, two mid-rise office projects; Alzheimer’s care facility – Nashville.
B.O.P. Butner, NC—in charge of design for the project, as well as 26 architects. Provided design, building, and wall sections, and all elevations of the numerous and varied buildings of the compound.
Project Architect for numerous Design/Build projects, including: Toyota, Nissan, and auto manufacturing plants in Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee, Indiana, and New York.
Lead architect for Alberici/Denver in the 270,000 s.f. D.O.E. Project 460 “ahead of schedule and under budget,” resulting in an ENR award. Because of the success, I created the Architectural Department for the Denver office – planning and implementing policies, procedures, operating, and performance standards; recruiting staff; designing and implementing a training and management mentoring program. Alberici/Denver’s specialty was Residence Inn, apartments, and condos built on a national scale.
Project architect and designer for the flagship restaurant, Wilscam’s, as well as 11 other restaurants.
Education
Master of Architecture, 1981, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1977, The Memphis College of Art
Memphis, Tennessee
Majors: Sculpture and Photography
EXPERIENCE AND SPECIAL SKILLS
Blacksmithing Teacher—Allan Hancock Community College, Santa Maria, CA, 2014/15
- Extensive design-build experience with Alberici and Gray Construction companies
- Twenty-five years’ experience in AutoCAD & Autodesk’s Architecture
- Significant 3D-S Max rendering experience
- Blacksmith & Teacher of Fine Art Blacksmithing: Alan Hancock Community College
- Experiments with structural cast ductile iron for possible patents
- Experiments with reciprocal frame structures and wood joinery design
- Two issued mechanical patents: #’s 5,641,036 & 5,642,789
- Furniture designer & artisanal builder
- Volunteer for several projects with historical societies and public agencies
Additional Construction Experience
Lyons Construction Co., June 1980–September 1980
- Stone Crew Foreman and structural welder for the Virginia Tech Animal Science Building.
Kentucky Residence – “The Lab”
- Ongoing remodel of my Kentucky property in the Arts and Crafts style—including structural experiments with reciprocal framing, blacksmithing, and cast iron structural elements.
HONORS and AWARDS
- AIAF Scholarship for Academic Excellence—Virginia Tech—1978/79
- Bridges/White Scholarship—1972-1976
- Eagle Scout at age thirteen
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