PROFILE

Ben Moore Studio, LLC is an award winning architectural firm in Kansas. Our full service design oriented studio has a talented group of architects and designers who work hard for their clients. We are recognized for our design talents and our ability to bring a quality project to each of our clients on time and on budget. We are architects that specialize in historic preservation, adaptive reuse / downtowns and animal care facilities.  We provide services in architecture, master planning, and interior design.

Ben Moore Studio was established in 2009. In 2013 the Architecture practice became a limited liability company. The firm has licensed architects, intern architects, an interior designer and drafting technicians. 

With multiple completed historic preservation & downtown projects in our portfolio, we have expertise working with both grant acquisitions and state historic approval process. Our firm is dedicated to Main Street programs and downtown revitalization work in particular. We work with these clients closely to create feasible projects that give back to their communities. 

We also specialize in animal care projects and have completed dog daycare facilities, training facilities, veterinarians clinics, animal hospitals, livestock arenas, and animal pharmaceutical facilities.

The studio has worked with several residential clients to renovate their existing houses and construct new ones in a healthy, affordable manner.  The designs provide a healthy environment to live in, lower operating costs and increased durability.

No project is too small for good ideas. 

PEOPLE

Ben Moore, AIA
Founder & Principal Architect

Ben Moore is a Licensed Architect in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma & Missouri.  The studio practices in downtowns / adaptive reuse, historic preservation, animal care, commercial and residential architecture.  Ben has worked in historic preservation and contemporary architecture since 2000. 

The work of our studio is a meaningful search for beauty in architecture.  The buildings we create and work on are based in contemporary architecture that is augmented by the prairie and vernacular buildings of the plains. The buildings are simple but meaningful interpretations of this measure.

Ben received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kansas State University in 2000 and studied at ITALART in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy.  While studying in Italy, Ben began working in watercolors and continued his study of the medium.  In 2000, he received the Heintzelman Prize HM for his thesis project.

During the summers in his childhood, Ben worked as a cabinet maker with his father in Independence, Missouri.  His mother taught him the skills of intuition and fostered the love of drawing and creativity.

Ben previously worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico on environmentally sustainable building projects with three different innovative architecture firms.

Kristy Johnson, AIA
Project Architect

Ms. Johnson has worked on many aspects of our historic preservation projects.  Not only a talented designer, she has performed grant administrator duties, tax credits, and grant writing on several downtown preservation projects.  She is licensed in the State of Kansas and holds a NCARB Certificate.  She graduated from Kansas State University in 2015 with a Master of Architecture degree, where she did her undergraduate work in Architecture as well.  She is passionate about working on main street buildings and residential projects, the core practices of Ben Moore Studio.  
 
A native Kansan originally from Wichita, she appreciates the opportunity to bring creative design to her Kansas communities. In her free time, she can be found fiddling on her violin for family and friends, trying new recipes in her kitchen or planning her next travel adventure. 

Tanner James, Associate AIA
Project Manager

Mr. James graduated from Kansas State University in 2015 with a Master of Architecture degree, where he did his undergraduate work in Architecture as well. Growing up in St. Joseph, Missouri, Tanner has had an interest in historic preservation and adaptive reuse from an early age and brings an enthusiasm for these projects to Ben Moore Studio.
 
In his free time he can be found fixing up his 1920s cottage, trying new cuisine, or being herded by his three welsh corgis. 


Illa 
Office Dog

The office dog and protector of all, she loves to swim and keep contractors in check!

Tiki
Office Dog

Tiki is the nice one of the bunch, lovable and courageous!