Al York

Principal @McKinney York Architects

Austin, TX, US

Champions the firm’s commitment to concept-driven design, sustainability, and innovation. With his leadership, McKinney York Architects has built a collaborative culture committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and garnered national, state, and local AIA Design Awards and recognition as the Texas Architect Firm of the Year. With economy, restraint, and an uncommon sensibility for context, Al creates architecture that resonates with a timeless sense of belonging by exposing the underlying grace of the ordinary and revealing beauty within familiar situations. His positive and inclusive spirit can be felt not only within the studio and by consultants and clients but also imbued within his projects. With clients, he is the person able to shift a conversation, reconcile differing viewpoints, or ask the right question at the right time to keep a project moving forward. As a thought-leader on efficiency, detailing, and construction technology, Al mobilizes tight budgets to serve the design concepts that underlie all his projects.

Auburn University

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Cornell University

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