Duzan Architecture + Design, Inc. / Oakland, Illinois
I spent years doing both before I ever sealed a drawing. Licensed architect and construction manager, working across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri — so what I recommend is priced against what the work actually costs.
No handoffs and no junior staff learning on your project. The architect who walks your building is the same person who writes the report, draws the work, sits at the board table and answers the phone during construction.
01 / Schools & public
Illinois districts are required to have a ten-year safety survey. I have written the reports, designed the corrective work, and managed the construction that came out of them.
02 / Retail & restaurant
One architect, four licensed states, fixed fee per site — with additional states added under NCARB reciprocity as a program expands.
03 / Owners & contractors
Decades of field construction management means the drawings are built to be bid and built, not redrawn in the field.
I take subconsultant work: production, construction administration, code analysis, and serving as Architect of Record in states where a firm isn’t licensed — with the responsible control the licensing acts require. You keep the client and run the design.
If a project is sitting because of licensure or workload, that’s a fifteen-minute phone call worth having.
A range of building types across four states and thirty years. Some of the work shown was completed prior to founding Duzan Architecture + Design in 2017.
Hutsonville, Momence, Palestine, Prairieview, Jacksonville, Oakland, Avon, Centralia, St. Joseph, Gardner, Gardner South Wilmington, Arthur, Bethany, Windsor and Decatur districts. Oakwood CUSD 76 gymnasium addition and Bismarck CUSD 1 multiple additions. Lakeland College classroom building and workforce development renovation. University of Illinois — Atkins Tennis Center, softball fields, Lincoln Hall feasibility study.
Octave Apartments (7 story), Wright Street Apartments (7 story), Healey Place Apartments (6 story), Regency Apartments & Clubhouse. Multiple apartment projects for University Group in Champaign since 2019, and apartment renovations throughout Illinois.
Dollar Tree and Family Dollar across Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Indiana. T-Mobile in Centralia, Carlyle, Fairfield and Mt. Vernon. Starbucks in Taylorville, Marshall, Harrisburg, Olney and Troy, plus Kirksville and Moberly, Missouri. Monical’s Pizza prototype and Beef O’Brady’s, Champaign.
St. Joseph-Ogden Fire Protection District new firehouse. Newman Regional Library District demolition. Murdock Township building demolition. Village of Homer concessions. Marine Corps recruitment centers. Scott County Historical Courthouse. Galesburg and Urbana armories. Lincoln Log Cabin Visitors Center.
Peoples Bank new building. Christie Clinic renovations. Landmark Credit Union, Westville. Prospect Bank. Panther Plaza exterior improvements, Charleston. Champaign Gymnastics Academy expansion. Danville VA buildings 48, 64 and 101-7. Bunn-O-Matic office, roof and site work.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — boiler replacements and a new supercomputer chilled cooling system. Sandia National Laboratories — air handler, cooling tower and 300-ton chiller replacements. VA Medical Centers in San Francisco, Martinez and Palo Alto. Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Hospital, Oracle, Pacific Gas & Electric, Roche Pharmaceuticals and the U.S. Coast Guard.
P.F. Chang’s in Corte Madera, Monterey, Anaheim and L.A. Live, California; Waikiki, Hawaii; and Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas. Yard House, Fremont. Pink Taco, Los Angeles. HUB Restaurant & Piccadilly Liquors. Rosati’s Pizza, Arizona.
370 3rd Street, San Francisco — $40 million renovation. Pacific Plaza — new seven-story construction, $70 million and up.
I came to architecture the long way around — through the field, not out of it.
I started drafting at twelve and building decks and homes in my teens. By the time I was licensed in 2013 I had already spent years as a contractor and construction manager, running work on supercomputing facilities, hospitals, high-rise towers and school campuses. That order of operations is unusual, and it is the reason my drawings tend to survive contact with a job site.
Early on I covered a region across northern and central Illinois working with school districts — from Griggsville to Bismarck, as far south as Hutsonville and north to Dwight. Master campus planning, new buildings, demolitions, additions, life safety reports and the work that came out of them. I have sat through a lot of board meetings and learned how to explain a code problem without alarming a room.
I founded Duzan Architecture + Design in 2017 because I thought the service could be better. Not the drawings — the service. Returning calls, giving people real numbers early, and being useful before there is a contract. The practice now holds licenses in four states and does everything from a ten-year safety survey to a seven-story apartment building.
I do not always have the answer immediately. But I will research it and come back with the right one.
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Even if it is only a code question or a number you need for a budget conversation. I am glad to be useful whether or not it turns into a project.
217.549.8373