In honor of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting some influential female architects practicing in Minneapolis. These firms work around the country, but we are lucky enough to have them based in Minneapolis. Learn more and see some of our favorite local projects below.

MSR DESIGN

ABOUT MSR DESIGN

MSR Design enriches lives by designing a better future. They create transformative and human-centric, award-winning architecture and interior design. Since 1981, their firm has produced work of enduring value: buildings that are expressly right for their time and place and that culturally and physically age gracefully. At MSR Design they tailor their design solutions to each client, resulting in a diverse mix of sustainable, equitable, healthy, beautiful projects.

Dagmara larsen

**AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, PRINCIPAL**
A principal with MSR Design, she has served as project manager and lead project designer for a wide range of projects, including public and academic libraries, higher education facilities, office buildings, and private residences. Dagmara’s ability to simultaneously balance a project’s programmatic needs, aesthetics, and sustainable drivers has been recognized by the clients she works with and by her peers through various awards, including a national AIA Young Architects Award, an AIA/ALA Library Building Award, an AIA CAE Education Facility Design Award of Excellence, an ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award, multiple AIA Minnesota Honor Awards, an AIA Minnesota Young Architects Award, and a Young Architect Award from the Association of Polish Architects. She is currently chair of the Articulture Board of Directors.
Dagmara taught a design studio at the University of Minnesota College of Design from 2005–2007. She is currently chair of the Articulture Board of Directors, a nonprofit visual arts organization. Dagmara holds a Master of Architecture from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland.

“I have had the pleasure of knowing the crew at MSR for what seems like forever. They have been great referral partners and have always taken excellent care of my downtown clients. Working along side them at Four Seasons has been a special collaboration as well. I am so impressed with how the original partners (Tom Meyer, Jeff Scherer and Garth Rockcastle) have passed the baton to the second generation of leaders in the firm, the majority of which is now women owned and led.”

-Cindy

favorite projects

Mill City Museum

Four seasons private residences minneapolis

Open book

Learn more ABOUT MSR DESIGN HERE

SNOW KREILICH ARCHITECTS

ABOUT SNOW KREILICH ARCHITECTS

Snow Kreilich Architects is a nationally recognized and award winning architectural studio based practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The studio was formerly Julie Snow Architects, founded in 1995 by Julie Snow. With each project led by design principals Julie Snow and Matt Kreilich, the studio focuses on producing architecture that performs against multiple measures of design success. This focus has resulted in consistent design recognition for projects that rely on a fresh and intensive design investigation of every project. We have developed shared working methodologies that result in consistently intelligent buildings that are well conceived and carefully detailed.

JULIE SNOW

**FOUNDING PRINCIPAL**
Julie Snow has garnered national recognition as both a practitioner and academic. Since founding Julie Snow Architects in 1995 and continuing the design trajectory of the firm as Snow Kreilich Architects, Julie participates in every project in the studio.
Julie has taught architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, the University of Southern California, and the University of Minnesota College of Design, where she received the Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching. Julie’s design leadership is also evidenced by her participation on juries and delivery of lectures in both academic and professional settings. She has lectured at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Building Museum, as well as making keynote addresses at several AIA conferences across the country.
Julie has been recognized with numerous awards including AIA Honor Awards, the Holcim North American Bronze Award, Progressive Architecture Design Award, the Chicago Athenaeum’s American, Architect Magazine Annual Design Review, and several US General Services Administration’s Design Excellence Awards. She recently received one of two Architecture Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

“I first met Julie and her team while working together on the Humboldt Lofts and Park Avenue Lofts projects in the early 2000’s. As a young woman early in my career at that time, I loved watching her take command of those projects with such confidence and authority. She had an unwavering vision for those two projects, and I learned so much about leadership watching her in action. Her reputation for modern design nation wide, and her empowerment of other young rising architects will be her legacy. What a privilege to know her. “

-Cindy