Christopher Diehl Email & Phone Number

collective HUMMM is a platform for Strategic Conceptual Design @ the front end of projects for architecture, urban design + place-making. Currently, our focus has concentrated on recording studios and performance venues for Apple, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and others, worldwide.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

One of the architects on staff, I was part of a talented team of creatives, thinkers, and makers at Advent that pulls from industrial and graphic design, fine art, architecture, engineering, videography, digital experience, management and fabrication.

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The City Architect / Manager, Architecture & Site DevelopmentThe City of Cleveland, Mayor’s Office of Capital Projects (MOCAP)Direct Reports: design staff of 8 Architects, Landscape Architects, Drafts-peopleJOB DESCRIPTIONAs the City Architect, I acted as the civic lead for architecture on behalf of the Mayor and City Council. I set the course for the quality of work done on behalf of the City and its constituents; either in-house or through managing the work commissioned to outside consulting architects. RESPONSIBILITIES:Civic Leadership / Design Quality / Project Management• Set the bar for strong design done on behalf of the City• Established rigorous vetting process for selection of design consultants• Represented the City to public, organizations, and press, in concert w/ Mayor’s office• Partnered actively with Planning, Economic Development, Community & Neighborhood Dev.• Worked intimately leadership of Public Works, Public Safety and Public Health• Key Commission Member of City’s Landmarks CommissionStaff Development / Project Development• Supervised staff work directly• Recruited the best new talent available to the practice• Supervised, coached and mentored the work of our professional sub-consultants• Worked to hone projects to budget and schedule• Led Value Engineering exercises to maintain value proposition while hitting budget targets

Ahmed Al Jaber Street, Kuwait City, Kw

6-month contract as Design Team Lead• Lead design efforts for on-going and new projects• Cultivated Design Culture, mentored and developed a gifted and diverse design team drawn from the region and well beyond (Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Spain, Lithuania, the UK, India and the Philippines)• Partnered with top-notch in-house teams in graphic design and engineeringIn a short amount of time, we developed design packages for three very different project types in healthcare, hospitality and research/landscape architecture; pivoting skillfully between the digital and analog in our methods. The team installed a physical modeling studio to create very early concept models for client workshops (acquiring the only foam wire-cutter available in Kuwait) as well creating dynamic tessellated canopies using Grasshopper + REVIT.- New Maternity Hospital; Sabah Medical District, Kuwait / Concept Design Package- Expansion of the Safir Hotel; Fintas, Kuwait / Schematic Design Package- Urban Greenery Research and Desert Development Park, KISR (Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research); Salmiya, Kuwait / Schematic Design Packagehttp://www.pace-kuwait.com/#urban-greenery-research-desert-development-kuwait-institute-scientific-research

Washington, Dc, Us

9-month contract as Project Design Lead, Design Culture Motivator• Cultivated Design Culture, mentor and develop a gifted and diverse design team in this small, fledgling office of RTKL w/ 20+ global staff (Egypt, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, Germany, the UK and US)• Design Team Lead for “Riverland”, the Retail Dining + Entertainment District (RD+E) of the new Meraas Dubai Theme Park. Riverland will act as the Hub, welcoming all visitors to the attraction boasting no less than three separate theme parks (motiongate Dubai, Bollywood Parks Dubai, Legoland Dubai). Key staff for the RD+E included, Khalda El Jack (Saudi Arabia), Sruthy Sukumaran (India), Natalia LIzarraga (Argentina), Michael Wiegmann and John Roberts (both US). In concert with Laith Wark's team at Verdaus Landscape Architecture, and working at a break-neck pace, this wonderfully diverse and talented team developed a successful conceptual design for the architecture and urban design for large and vital "urban" hub. Opening: 2018

San Francisco, Ca, Us

CHANGE AGENT: I was recruited as the Creative Director for URS Cleveland to help build a strong team and establish a strong design practice. Within 8 years we garnered 11 AIA design awards and continue as a force for strong design in the regionINTEGRATOR: Transit, as civic infrastructure, provides rich opportunities to weave together design, urbanism and public art in transformative ways to strengthen the sense of place, foster economic development and create urban vitality. Our proposal for Toledo’s new Jackson Blvd Transit Center, our most recent example, leverages the City's tech. savvy to create a solar power and sustainable benchmarkSELECTED WORKS:13 Mayfield Branch Library/ Cuyahoga County Public Library; Mayfield, OH13 Boeing Focus Factory; Ridley Park, PA 08 National Forest Service / White Mountain Regional HQ; Campton, NH05 The IDEAcenter Renovation @ Playhouse Square; Cleveland, OH 05 URS Corporate Offices / the IDEA-Center; Cleveland, OH02 Visitor’s Center / BP Paulsboro Terminal Redevelopment; NJHEALTHCARE13 Care Alliance Health Clinic; Cleveland, OH06 Cleveland Clinic Toronto; Toronto, Canada06 The Cleveland Clinic / Westlake Family Health Care Center; Westlake,OHCOLLEGE + UNIVERSITY10 Oberlin Conservatory of Music/ Oberlin College; Oberlin, OH10 University of Rochester/College Town Gateway Development Project06 Wright State University/Joshi Research Center of Innovation; Dayton,OH05 Tri-C/Corporate College East; Warrensville Heights, OH04 U. of Akron/Simmons Hall for Student Affairs; Akron, OH02 U. of Akron/College of Arts & Sciences; Akron, OHSCHOOLS08 Crouse + Jennings Middle Schools/Akron Public School District06 Shaw High School/ East Cleveland School District03 Middle School + High School Entry/ Beachwood Public School DistrictTRANSIT12 Jackson Blvd Transit Center / TARTA+ City of Toledo

An active board member, I helped to recruit jury members as Jury Chair and assisted in fundraising.The oldest award of its kind in the United States, the Arts Prize seeks to identify, reward, publicly honor and promote those creative artists whose original work has made Northeast Ohio a more exciting place to live, and whose accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire.

Kent, Ohio, Us

Based at the CUDC (The College of Architecture and Environmental Design’s community outreach arm based in downtown Cleveland), I was the resident Graduate Studio Instructor for Architecture + Urban Design. Studios focused upon the pressing topics for our city + region that included:- Introduction of High-Speed Rail to Ohio and opportunities for Transit-Oriented Development - Impact of a proposed new Casino for Cleveland’s CBD- Mid-century modernism: w/ Marcel Breuer’s only realized skyscraper (Cleveland’s Ameritrust Tower) threatened with demolition, how other regional examples could be renovated, repurposed and savedIn addition to acting as graduate thesis advisor, I also taught an architectural theory course that integrated field trips, analysis and discourse: “VISUAL THINKING: CRITICAL ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRY”

diehlio, inc., my private research and public art initiative, has run concurrent with my professional and academic practices. Highlights include:DESIGN2009 School + Offices for the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CAED-KSU); Cleveland, OH Won 3 Awards in 2011: Ohio AIA Merit Award (Interiors), Cleveland AIA Honor Award (Interiors), Downtown Development Award (Downtown Cleveland Alliance) PROJECT MANAGEMENT2005 Abercrombie & Fitch / Hollister Store; New Delhi, IndiaServed as consultant for A&F to transition from 2d AutoCAD platform to a Parametric 3d platform for their Master “Hollister” Store CD package. Assisted in interviewing, negotiating contract w/ and actively managing the work of Adroit Tech, an A/E firm based in New DelhiURBAN DESIGN2009 Village at St. Bede’s/ St. Bede’s Abbey; Peru, ILCreated sustainable development strategy for portion of bucolic, 900-acre site2008 Glen Ellyn Downtown Development Plan/ Village of Glen Ellyn, ILCreated sustainable downtown development for vibrant suburb of Chicago on the METRA rail line2007 Public Art Master Plan / Morgana Run Trail, Slavic Village CDC; Cleveland OHPlan to integrate Public Art along this rails-to-trial pathway through diverse Slavic Village PUBLIC ART2009 Waterloo Place-making Tower/ NE Shores CDC; ClevelandInfrastructure for public art installations, 30’ stainless steel tower + plaza2008 “Pixelating Morgana” Mural/, Slavic Village; Cleveland, OH300’ long permanent installation along new Morgana Run Trail2006 Waterloo Arts District Streetscape / NE Shores CDC; ClevelandActing as public artist to develop authentic interventions as programming and gateways for this hard-scrabble turned nascent Arts District neighborhood2009 Ka-Boom! Mural; Cleveland, OH / FIRST PLACE + Commission, installed 6/09On site of infamous Danny Greene bombing when Cleveland was regarded as “Bomb-City USA”

As Director for the CUDC (The College of Architecture and Environmental Design’s community outreach arm based in downtown Cleveland) I was the chief administrator overseeing a staff of seven. Duties included:- Annual Reviews + salary adjustments- Reporting to the College Administration and faculty- Annual Grant applications- Developing a Strategic Plan in response to budget cuts- Representing the CUDC and College in public forums

In addition to responding to design issues of the area on behalf of the AIA, I led the planning for the AIA Cleveland Design Awards for 2007, held at Coop Himmelb(l)au’s just completed Akron Art Museum and featuring Mehrdad Yazdani as chief juror and keynote speaker.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

University Park, Pa, Us

Studio Instructor for 3rd + 4th-year I also acted as the 4th year coordinator.I taught Architectural Theory in partnership with Donald Kunze.

While teaching as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Penn State University, I renewed my connection with Robert Loversidge, Prinicpal at Schooley Caldwell Associates. I provided digital modeling and rendering assistance to their practice.

Working as Design Architect, under Design Principal, BJ Artup, I also acted as Project Manager for works that include:- Delaware County 20/20 Master plan; Delaware, OH1998 NATIONAL ACHEIVEMENT AWARD, in partnership with Schooley Caldwell Associates, plan for expansion and economic development of this small college town; home to Ohio Wesleyan University- Chemical Abstracts Service, Inc.; Columbus, OHExpansion of this 1960’s campus adjacent to the Olentangy River near Ohio State University- South Side Christian Church; Lima, OHDesign lead for the new sanctuary, classrooms and fellowship hall

I worked for Todd Lee and Santiago Rozas on two separate occasions; just out of graduate school and then returning in the mid-90’s. Working as Mr. Lee’s Second for Design Development, I was also Project Manager for projects that include:- Sheraton Boston Hotel & Towers Restoration; Boston, MAA top-down restoration of the hotel located in the 1964 Prudential Tower, the 2nd-tallest building in Boston designed by Charles Luckman and Associates- Doubletree Suites - Times Square; New York, N.Y. Renovations to this existing hotel on Times Square- Zinc, Restaurant; Boston, MAConceptual design for an elegant, up-scale bistro in Boston’s Back-Bay- Gleneagles Resort @ Lake Placid; Lake Placid, New York. I assisted in the planning and design for Gleneagles Development’s ambitious revitalization and expansion of the historic Lake Placid Club on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, New York. Created in 1895 by Melvil Dewey (inventor of the Dewey Decimal system) it had been instrumental in Lake Placid's development, becoming an internationally-known resort that, by the 1980’s, had fallen on hard times. Arson, unfortunately, brought the demise of both the redevelopment project and the Lake Placid Club itself. The final buildings that remained were demolition in 2002.

Studio Instructor for 3rd + 4th-year

Studio Instructor for 3rd + 4th-year

I taught an Undergraduate Honors course in Aesthetics and a 4th-year architectural design studio utilizing 16mm film as a design tool.

Upon my return to Ohio from working from working in Europe, I was delighted to discover that Fitch had acquired a local company to create Fitch/Richardson-Smith. I worked on several retail commissions that included: - Vinyl Products Showroom for Armstrong World Industries; Lancaster, PA- A new Premier Branch Bank Prototype; New Orleans, LA- New Trade Show Environment for Lee Jeans

Beginning with illustration work for the Museum for Juan Miro project (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), the rigor of my architectural tasks increased in parallel to my Spanish fluency. My work included:- KURSAAL Cultural Center (San Sebastian, Spain) development of architectural plan + detailing work on the cast-glass, double-glazed curtain wall system.- Museum for the Thyssen Collection (Madrid, Spain) detail design studies for the 6 large, north-facing skylight monitors that flood the interior w/ controlled daylight

I worked as an architectural designer on staff on several large commissions: the Prudential Office Tower + Mall in Uxbridge and the transit center for the new Leeds Centre Shopping Mall in Leeds; both in the U.K. Concurrently, I was completing my studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (the Städelschule Art Academy) in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

After working on an addition to the Don Hisaka-designed library at Wright State University for John Ruetschle & Associate, I moved to Boston for graduate school and worked for the Master himself. As an apprentice, I worked on the CD's for the Class-A office buidling in Washington DC at 1150 18th Street, N.W.

Dayton, Oh, Us

Dayton, Oh, Us

Dayton, Oh, Us

March, Architecture

Architecture + Film

Bachelor Of Environmental Design, Architecture