Architecture & Interior Architecture Mock Interview Night
This year on Wednesday, November 5, KU school of Architecture & Design will host the 12th annual mock interview night for architecture / interior architecture students. This event is designed to get you ready for the career fair in February. This is a great opportunity to practice interviewing and receive feedback from professionals in a low pressure, fun environment. Network with over 40 professionals representing firms from coast to coast.
2025 Participating Firms
AltusWorks
AltusWorks was founded in 2003 based on the concept that existing buildings are renewable assets that contribute to the economic development of communities through their revitalization. We are a technically oriented architectural design firm which applies a high level of expertise to the creative problem solving required for the restoration, adaptive reuse, rehabilitation, and expansion of existing and historic structures. We are Woman-Owned, based in Chicago, and committed to excellence in preservation and adaptive reuse.
Ampere
Ampere team possesses over 75 years of industry experience. Together, they have designed and executed projects for every type of sport and client, from the largest ‘Power 4’ universities in the country to over 50 from other divisions, such as NAIA, D2, and D3 schools, spanning every state. Ampere offers the following architectural design services: Master Planning; Feasibility Studies; New Construction Design (Vertical Focus); Renovation Design Planning & Execution; 3D Model & Design, Conceptual Renderings, and Visualizations.
Arcadis
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approximately 37,000 dedicated Civilians and Soldiers delivering engineering services to customers in more than 130 countries worldwide. With environmental sustainability as a guiding principle, our disciplined Corps team is working diligently to strengthen our Nation’s security by building and maintaining America’s infrastructure and providing military facilities where our servicemembers train, work and live.
Black & Veatch
For 110 years, Black & Veatch has been synonymous with innovation and delivery of human infrastructure projects that shape the fabric of organizations, populations and communities. Clients rely on us for bolder vision in strategic planning, courage and creativity to solve complex challenges, deep technical expertise, and our ability to execute and deliver.
Boulder Associates
Boulder Associates has over 40 years of experience primarily focused on healthcare, senior living, and life science design. We understand deeply our clients’ economic, operational, and regulatory challenges. We take these challenges on as our own and meet them by combining beautiful, innovative design with high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions.
BRR
We’re a national architectural design firm located across the United States, and our history spans decades. Our design process is collaborative with each and every client, and we provide full-scope architectural design services, including virtual reality, interior design, code services and more. We have 10 offices spanning the United States with 300+ team members and 90+ licensed architects.
Burns & McDonell
Burns & McDonnell is a family of companies bringing together an unmatched team of 13,500 engineers, construction and craft professionals, architects, and more to design and build our critical infrastructure. With an integrated construction and design mindset, we offer full-service capabilities from a 100% employee-owned team with 70+ offices across the country and throughout the world.
CannonDesign
Cannon is a design practice at the nexus of strategy, experience, architecture, engineering and social impact. We're a global community of more than 1,200 people with incredibly diverse backgrounds, experiences and talents. With offices in 16 locations and partnerships that span the globe.
Clark&Enersen
Since our founding in 1946, Clark & Enersen has been defined by partnership. We are an integrated team of architects, engineers, interior designers, and landscape architects. We strive to empower and inspire our clients as well as the people who live, work, and play within the spaces and environments we help create. It is through partnership in thoughtful design that the best ideas rise to the top, resulting in timeless designs that meet the long-term goals of our clients.
Corgan
Corgan is a global design firm. We use data and dialogue to design places that perform with functional, technical, and aesthetic excellence. We’re an employee-owned firm driven by research that informs elevated user experiences, and insights that anticipate a rapidly changing world. It’s how we design structures and spaces that reach beyond our clients’ initial goals.
DLR Group
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, and planning for new construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse. Core areas of design expertise include Civic, Courts, Detention, Energy Services, Federal Markets, Higher Education, Hospitality, Housing, K-12 Education, Museums, Performing Arts, Retail/Mixed-Use, Sports, and Workplace.
Generator Studio
Generator Studio is a Kansas City-based architecture and interior design firm with hospitality at the forefront of all we do. Different by design, our studio is a right-sized gem among giants—a position we embrace. We blend the technical chops of legacy firms with hospitality-driven design, where placemaking and storytelling converge.
Gensler
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and 7,000 professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. The firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 29 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors.
HOK
HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm. They have 1,700 people collaborate across a network of 24 offices. HOK designs buildings and spaces that respond to the needs of people and the environment.
HTK Architects
HTK Architects has cultivated a breadth of experience designing Civic, Corporate, Healthcare, Higher Education, Judicial, K-12 Education, Military, Religious, and Sports & Recreation facilities. With offices in Topeka and Overland Park, their team continues to grow, completing new design, addition, and renovation projects throughout the region.
Hufft
Hufft is an architecture and interior design studio dedicated to creating meaningful concepts inspired by people and places. Throughout our 20-year history, Hufft has grown by deeply understanding the people and places that shape each project. Our forward-thinking approach results in innovative applications of form and materials with a thorough understanding of site and context. We specialize in projects that require distinctive solutions to complex challenges, regardless of scale or project type. Whether crafting a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture or reimagining city blocks, we are guided by the people, places, and concepts that shape each project.
KPF
KPF is a unified architectural practice focused on the design of buildings of all types and scales, in all geographic regions. KPF is a global organization that operates as a single firm, headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, London, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Seoul.
Kwame Building Group
With over 30 years as a construction management firm, KWAME Building Group is recognized as a preeminent Construction Management firm. As a construction management firm, KWAME focuses on providing our clients with detailed, project leadership and service in construction management. KWAME takes pride in delivering projects on-time and on budget while demonstrating expertise and execution of project goals.
Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC)
LJC is a full-service design and architecture firm committed to enhancing the quality of the human experience and to improving how design and architecture can impact everyone's emotional being. We are growing in both Chicago and St. Louis and are harnessing the power of integrated design, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning, and engineering, the company achieves its clients’ goals and aspirations.
Mackey Mitchell Architects
Offices located in Lawrence, St. Louis, Asheville, and Dallas.
McCown Gordon
McCownGordon Construction is an employee-owned construction company in Kansas City, with offices in Manhattan, Kansas, Wichita, Kansas and Dallas-Fort Worth. As a thought leader in our industry, we strive to fulfill a role not just as a contractor, but as a full partner throughout the project. That same philosophy drives our commitment to respect and inclusion for our associates.
Mitchell and Hugeback Architects (M+H)
M+H Architects was founded in 1989 as Mitchell and Hugeback Architects. Our story is rooted in how we combine industry experience, creative architecture and advanced technology to build the future of our clients’ businesses. Located in St. Louis, M+H consistently delivers creative and innovative solutions that meet projects’ budgets and schedules.
MMTH
MMTH is a modern master build firm dedicated to building the places where passion and community collide. We consult, create, and construct sports projects of every size for every team and conference. Located in Kansas, we work with colleges and professional teams in every corner of the country.
Multistudio
Multistudio is the evolution of Gould Evans. Our new identity reflects how we think, embracing the multiple ways in which we design to uncover possibilities and engage with the world. Multistudio collaboratively expands the practice of architecture, brand experience, city design, education design, and interiors to serve complex, and even contradictory needs of our clients and communities. The diversity of thought, people, and disciplines helps us explore place and spark possibilities of economic, social, and environmental change. And although we take on a variety of projects, neither size nor type dictates their importance.
NSPJ
Headquartered in the Kansas City metro area, NSPJ Architects has been involved in the tremendous growth that has characterized our city. Our founders believed strongly in the importance of respecting the context of carefully-proportioned, richly-detailed architecture and efficient space planning.
Patterhn Ives
Patterhn Ives is a women-owned small business based in St. Louis, Missouri and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Our offices are comprised of highly motivated professionals that share a passion for design excellence, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and high-performance projects that strive to exceed client needs and aspirations. We offer competitive salaries and benefits within a supportive environment that fosters individual and collective growth.
Perkins Eastman
Founded in 1981 in New York City, Perkins Eastman is a global architecture firm that has grown to include 1,000 employees working out of a combined 17 interdisciplinary offices around the world. From education and healthcare to mixed-use and transit-oriented developments, we design for a sustainable and resilient future, and to enhance the human experience through the built environment.
Perkins & Will
Perkins & Will is dedicated to creating environments where people live happier, healthier lives. To working collaboratively with our clients—engaging, listening, questioning—until, together, we exceed expectations. We have more than 40 locations across the globe and strategic partnerships with Lyft, Google, Harvard University, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others that give us an unprecedented platform on which to experiment, explore, and introduce design excellence ideals for the next generation.
PGAV
PGAV creates remarkable places for people: places to work, learn, discover, play, and enhance their communities. The team offers a wide spectrum of services, including site development, financial feasibility studies, and architecture. Our team of over 150 professionals, located in Kansas City and St. Louis, bring energy and creativity along with the belief that design can be transformative.
PGAV Destinations
PGAV Destinations is one of the world’s largest independent design firms, serving as a leading master planner and designer of theme parks, zoos, museums, aquariums, heritage sites, destination retail, and brand-based experiences. With 100+ full-time team members in 35+ states on 5 different continents, we’re sculptors, designers, architects, artists, and strategists devoted to something bigger than experiences alone.
Populous
We’re a global design firm with colleagues spanning four continents. We are a global firm with local roots in cities across the world and regional headquarters in London, Brisbane and Kansas City. Our team includes specialist designers across a range of disciplines from architecture and interior design to branded environments, urban planning, event design and landscape architecture.
Pulse Design Group
Pulse Design Group is the only full service architectural firm in the Kansas City area focused solely on the healthcare industry, and over the years, we've grown to serve healthcare clients across the nation. We bring 45 years of healthcare experience to every project, and our focus on healthcare gives our clients a powerful advantage. Because we look at every project through the lens of experience, we are able to anticipate project needs well in advance.
RDG
We're a nationally recognized, relationship-focused interdisciplinary design and planning firm. United in our pursuit to create meaning together, we partner with clients and communities to create inclusive, sustainable and meaningful environments that improve people’s lives and make our world better.
SixTwentyOne
We are a design studio dedicated to creating modern, lasting spaces and communities that promote living a joyful life. SixTwentyOne designs spaces that are lasting, simple, and tailor made for each client. Located in Kanas City, we have more than 20 years of experience in the field of architectural and interior design.
Slattery
Design is more than design. We refuse what has historically been a binary choice between “design” and “service”. We have a responsibility to provide design excellence while serving the visions of our clients and communities.
SmithGroup
SmithGroup is an award-winning, multi-national integrated design firm that employs research, data, advanced technologies and design thinking to help clients solve their greatest challenges. Working across 21 locations in the U.S. and China, our network of 1,500 experts is committed to excellence in strategy, design and delivery. Across more than 20 design disciplines, we work collaboratively and creatively, sharing ideas and learning from one another.
SOM
A global collective of architects, designers, engineers, and planners building a better future. Named No. 1 on Architizer's 2024 list of "Best Architecture and Design Firms in the United States," an #Equality100 company by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, and a Woman-forward Workplace finalist by Crain's New York Business in 2023.
Studios
We create living, breathing structures that inspire and serve. We design spaces that uplift the people who experience them every day. We plan cities, universities, and campuses as living organisms able to adapt and thrive. We open up more prosperous futures for organizations and people. Offices located in Washington, DC, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Lyon.
Travois
Founded in 1995, Travois is a mission-driven business focused exclusively on promoting housing and economic development for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities. With over 260 affordable housing and economic developments, Travois has brought more than $1 billion in private investor equity to Indian Country. These developments include more than 6,200 homes, infrastructure, health care, community centers, education facilities and other businesses. In addition to development services, the Travois family of companies offers architectural design and construction monitoring services, environmental assessments, consulting on green energy improvements, asset management and compliance services and comprehensive training to clients in 22 states, from Hawaii and Alaska to California and Maine.
ZGF
ZGF began our architectural practice over 70 years ago in Portland, Oregon. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, our contributions to the world are shaped by our reverence for the beauty of the natural environment and deep commitment to its stewardship. The instinct to build community is foundational for our practice and reflected in our work, which has always been derived from the particulars of the climate, the place, and the purpose of the building, rather than a signature style. Our ethos is simple but timeless: use local materials, maximize access to daylight and views, leverage technology to accomplish high-performing and resilient design, and ensure the result is reflective of the people and the community it will serve.