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Kevin Pfirman’s interest in architecture began at a very early age.  He was the kid you remember in kindergarten who could draw.  Airplanes, superheroes, surfers, and skylines, just about anything could be found in the shopping bag of drawings collected over the years. He was the kid who won the poster design contests.  He was the kid who made flip-page cartoon animations that you would pass around the class until the teacher picked it up, and had to flip it himself.  He still is that guy.  It is also his love of nature fulfilled by yanking bass from under lily pads, surfing anywhere the waves will break, riding his motorcycle through the hills, and spending more time outdoors than inside that truly informed his approach to designing the built environment.  He believes that one must love the outdoors and nature more than buildings in order to design a building worth spending your time in.

After attending The College of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, earning his Bachelors of Arts in Architecture, and interning with architects in his hometown during summers, he went to work for the late C.L. Helt Architect for three years with the late Richard Weaver serving as his mentor.  There he learned to design many different building types including houses, offices, factories, clinics, apartments, townhomes, mid-rise residential, airplane hangars, churches, grocery stores, and many other building types within a three-man office where a broad knowledge of construction came quickly and much responsibility was earned.

Directly after his internship, Kevin went back to UNC Charlotte to write his thesis on “The Siting and Design of Coastal Buildings in North Carolina”, which was intended as a primer for his return to the coast to practice architecture and resume the coastal lifestyle to achieve the work-life balance we all need.  After working three years for the late Michael Kersting, Architect, Kevin flew the coop in 2002 to start his own practice and begin raising a family.

Twenty years later, the thesis and lifestyle still inform the work, as well as experience practicing within his own firm designing projects of many ranges of cost and scale, mainly in the coastal environment of North Carolina and South Carolina.  The approach has remained true to its core:  To create strong, useful, and beautiful structures that aspire to belong wholly to the land, nature, clients, and the future.

Philosophy

Kevin Pfirman’s interest in architecture began at a very early age.  He was the kid you remember in kindergarten who could draw.  Airplanes, superheroes, surfers, and skylines, just about anything could be found in the shopping bag of drawings collected over the years. He was the kid who won the poster design contests.  He was the kid who made flip-page cartoon animations that you would pass around the class until the teacher picked it up, and had to flip it himself.  He still is that guy.  It is also his love of nature fulfilled by yanking bass from under lily pads, surfing anywhere the waves will break, riding his motorcycle through the hills, and spending more time outdoors than inside that truly informed his approach to designing the built environment.  He believes that one must love the outdoors and nature more than buildings in order to design a building worth spending your time in.

After attending The College of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, earning his Bachelors of Arts in Architecture, and interning with architects in his hometown during summers, he went to work for the late C.L. Helt Architect for three years with the late Richard Weaver serving as his mentor.  There he learned to design many different building types including houses, offices, factories, clinics, apartments, townhomes, mid-rise residential, airplane hangars, churches, grocery stores, and many other building types within a three-man office where a broad knowledge of construction came quickly and much responsibility was earned.

Directly after his internship, Kevin went back to UNC Charlotte to write his thesis on “The Siting and Design of Coastal Buildings in North Carolina”, which was intended as a primer for his return to the coast to practice architecture and resume the coastal lifestyle to achieve the work-life balance we all need.  After working three years for the late Michael Kersting, Architect, Kevin flew the coop in 2002 to start his own practice and begin raising a family.

Twenty years later, the thesis and lifestyle still inform the work, as well as experience practicing within his own firm designing projects of many ranges of cost and scale, mainly in the coastal environment of North Carolina and South Carolina.  The approach has remained true to its core:  To create strong, useful, and beautiful structures that aspire to belong wholly to the land, nature, clients, and the future.