OPN Architects

WHO WE ARE Over the course of our nearly 40 year history, OPN has grown from a handful of designers practicing in a single studio to nearly 120 talented individuals working in four offices in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, and Iowa City, Iowa, and Madison, Wisconsin. As a comprehensive architectural, landscape, and interior design firm, OPN Architects solution-based process and approach is informed by data and rooted in a fundamental belief that detail and rigor inform every design decision. We thrive in challenging situations because our ability to build relationships between people, decisions, and information is central to our success. HOW WE WORK We collaborate. We camp out in teaming rooms during intensive periods of research and design. We document our ideas with layers of trace paper, sticky notes, photos and boards, and workshop ideas together during weekly design critiques. We understand that physical space can foster or inhibit collaboration and innovation, and we believe pass...