Dennis McGrath

Dennis McGrath is founder and principal of Dennis McGrath Design, LLC., an architectural design, and consulting practice since 2015. He is a senior lecturer in the college of architecture at WashU. Prior to establishing his business, he was design director and practice leader for ten years with Lawrence Group. He was a senior design project architect at Target Corporation, senior associate with Collins Hansen Architects and a designer at Ellerbe Becket, and MS&R Design. Dennis has 30 years of experience on a variety of project types including national and international competitions, residential, civic, academic, workplace, libraries, performing arts facilities and branded retail environments.

In practice he specializes in projects where collaboration is required. Seeking balanced work through team building for clients who value broadening the definition of design and the role it has in shaping contemporary culture. In his role as educator he has taught advanced building systems, environmental systems 2, design options studio, degree project studio, and co-coordinated the design thinking and pre-design program for graduate students in the college of architecture.

His work has received AIA Honor Awards for design, Preservation awards from the state of Minnesota and Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. He has published illustrations for James F. O’Gorman’s ABC of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press, and has received a Charles E. Peterson Prize for measured drawings archived at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.