Lawrence Group has announced the recent hiring of Bob Buckman, AIA, NCARB as associate principal/senior project manager.
Buckman has been practicing architecture for more than 22 years and is licensed in Missouri and Illinois. His design philosophy advocates the highest possible aspirations for a project in terms of functionality, aesthetics, and economics. He has experience with a wide range of building types including higher education, K-12, parks and recreation, corporate, cultural/civic, historic preservation and mixed-use.
Prior to Lawrence Group, he was an associate principal/architect at Lamar Johnson Collaborative in St. Louis, and a former project design manager/architect with higher education design firm KWK Architects, which merged with Lawrence Group in 2023. Over the course of his career, he has held a variety of designer, project architect and project manager positions.
Notable award-winning projects that he has collaborated on during his career include Maryville University’s Donius University Center, the Walter Coulter Science Center at Westminster College, The Jewel Box restoration in Forest Park, Express Scripts Corporate Headquarters (HQ 1) in St. Louis, Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park and an off-the-grid ranch in Colorado.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in environmental design from the University of Missouri – Columbia, where his achievements also included captain of the university’s rugby team and cabinet maker during the summers. He also worked in various construction trades during the summer while earning a Master of Architecture in just two years from California State Polytechnic University – Pomona.
A former architectural acoustics instructor at Washington University, Buckman is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architects Registration Boards.
