Cody Knop is a graduate of Iowa State University where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2007. Prior to establishing Knop Killeen Architects (formerly Knop Architects) in 2021, Cody was a Project Architect in the award-winning architecture offices of Lake Flato Architects in San Antonio, Texas as well as Substance Architecture and Jeffrey Morgan Architecture Studio in Des Moines, Iowa. Cody has over 15 years of experience in designing a wide range of building types including single-family residential, commercial, higher education, hospitality, adaptive reuse, and mixed-use projects. Throughout his career, he has focused on executing his client’s goals and vision with an attention to craft, rigor, and elegance which has led to numerous state, regional and national award winning projects, including the Blue Lake Retreat project, which was awarded a National Housing Design Excellence Award in 2017.