Architecture & Interior Architecture Mock Interview Night
Each fall semester, the Department of Architecture welcomes professionals from top global firms to the KU campus for Mock Interview Night.
Designed to prepare architecture and interior architecture students for the annual spring semester KU Architecture & Design Career Fair, this event allows students to practice interviewing and receive feedback from professionals in a fun and low-pressure environment. Using the insights gained during the event, students seeking internships or full-time positions are able to hone their portfolios and presentations for the career fair and wherever else their career search leads.
2026 Participating Firms
AECOM
AECOM's Architecture team is one of the largest practices in the world, with over 2,500 architects in over 300 offices across the globe. Thier pursuit of creative innovation and design excellence is fueled by a unique global view, a culture of holistic multi-disciplinary thinkers, a diverse and inclusive design process, and a shared ethos that calls for work that is clear, thoughtful, efficient, ecological, and adaptable.
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.
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 & McDonnell
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.
Centric
Founded in 2010, Centric is Kansas City’s homegrown general contractor, built on a commitment to approaching construction in a bold, innovative way. While some aspects of construction have been perfected over the past 5,000 years, we believe there’s always room to rethink, reimagine, and do things differently. For us, construction goes beyond concrete, steel, and wood, beyond square footage and floor plans — it’s about pushing the boundaries of technical innovation and solving complex problems. We pioneer new possibilities and build what has never been built before. We put a plane on a building. We built Kansas City’s first modular apartment building and structural steel hotel. We were the first to build on the streetcar line. And, we’re just getting started.
Childers Architect
The significance of architecture is to create memorable experiences that people can feel. When someone walks into a building there is a certain emotion. As an architecture firm, we have the power to create that feeling. If the feeling is strong enough, it becomes a memory. We create memories. The heart of what we strive to accomplish in our practice of architecture is creating meaningful spaces. Childers Architect has over 30 years of experience creating distinctively beautiful yet functional works of architecture. We are a 100% Native American owned and certified business. We pride ourselves in creating spaces for the American Indian communities within the surrounding regions that inspire.
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.
Crawford Architects
Crawford Architects is an award-winning international planning, architecture and interior design firm, head-quartered in Kansas City. As a professional services firm, we specialize in the planning and design of live-work-play developments that contribute to the well-being of their occupants. What sets us apart is the ability to craft a ‘big idea’ that guides all aspects of a project. This skill is critical to creating landmark designs that are feasible, functional, and beautiful. The aim of our practice is to create distinguished architecture, contextually well placed within the environment.
CRB
CRB is a leading provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions to the global life sciences and food & beverage industries. From 21 offices across the United States, Canada and Europe, our professionals provide world-class solutions that drive success and positive change for our clients, our people and our communities. CRB is a privately held company with a rich history of serving clients throughout the world, consistently striving for the highest standard of technical knowledge, creativity and execution.
Dimensional Innovations (DI)
Dimensional Innovations is not your typical experience design firm—we build experiences that few others can. We took a broken project delivery model and united design and build into one accountable source—eliminating conflict, reducing costs and streamlining the entire process. With in-house resources spanning strategy, design, technology, content and fabrication, we offer something rare: complete control from vision through execution. No handoffs. No silos. Just one team, aligned from the start. For 30+ years, we’ve helped brands tell their story in boundary-pushing ways—through immersive spaces, digital moments and custom-built experiences that make lasting impressions.
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.
HFG
HFG has empowered healthcare professionals across the nation to refine patient care through specialized design expertise for 30 years. Operating exclusively within the healthcare field, our team of specialists has the technical knowledge to guide every stage of a project – from master planning to interior design. Our partnerships with hospitals, clinics, elder residences, government clients, and other medical facilities improve patient outcomes via design solutions that maximize financial sustainability, technical efficiency, patient comfort, and aesthetic fulfillment. To date, HFG Architecture’s vision to reorient healthcare facilities towards patient experience has been realized at over 2,500 projects.
HKS
HKS delivers design that inspires, connects and performs. Whether we are creating memorable experiences for sports fans; providing a world away to resort guests; or enabling teens living with cancer to support one another — we believe design can change people’s lives for the better.
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.
Hollis+Miller
Hollis+Miller has endured more than 75 years of history, collaboration, trials and triumphs, all leading us to where we stand today. We are proud to be one of the longest operating architectural firms in the region. Our people are at our core, and together we forge meaningful connections with each other and with our clients to build relationships pushing each other to maintain a continuous growth mindset. This interaction drives our genuine client interaction and engagement processes as we envision the future of education for each individual client. At Hollis + Miller, our values are simple: we are people centric, purpose driven and embrace the power of we.
HNTB
HNTB work brings people together through purposeful, human-centered design. Across HNTB’s architecture practice, projects are shaped by client needs and guided by a balance of creative expression and technical rigor. We deliver award-winning work through design leadership and technical expertise to projects across multiple disciplines. Our teams draw on integrated expertise to deliver at scale, working through a collaborative, client-centered process that translates challenges into clear, effective design solutions. Together, we work to deliver projects that are clear in intent, rigorous in execution and lasting in impact.
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.
International Architects Atelier (IAA)
International Architects Atelier (IAA) is a leading architectural firm and a team of technical experts with an unparalleled dedication to our client's visions and needs while contributing our creativity to produce solution-oriented, award-winning, and innovative designs. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Kansas City, IAA has accrued a portfolio of clients with whom our experienced team collaborates for productive, lifelong partnerships to shape our communities for the future.
JE Dunn
JE Dunn believes it’s not just what we build — but how we build it that matters most. With over 100 years of experience, we work side by side with our partners to elevate outcomes and build relationships that last long after the work is done. Because for us, it’s not just about projects — it’s about the journey.
JGR Architects
JGR Architects believes architecture is about experience. Our designers and architects create environments and experiences through artistry and collaboration. We focus on the small details of each project, along with the overall picture, to produce and enhance beauty within the built environment. For our team, design and architecture is a way of life; it evokes us, it inspires us and lives in us. We strive everyday to share this feeling with our clients through our designs and our projects.
JHET Architects
JHET Architects is focused on the future of data centers, where innovation meets infrastructure, and you are the priority. Your program brought to life. At JHET, we specialize in customer-centric data center design, blending mission critical architectural expertise with project leadership. We prioritize client satisfaction, crafting efficient and sustainable solutions that align with your unique business needs. Our dedicated team ensures seamless project execution, delivering cutting-edge designs and exceptional customer service. Transform your data center experience with us, and let’s partner in success.
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.
Mackey Mitchell Architects (MMA)
MMA is a nationally renowned architectural firm dedicated to crafting exceptional spaces that elevate the human experience. Our firm has offices in St. Louis, MO, Dallas, TX, and Asheville, NC.
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.
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.
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.
Rosemann & Associates
Rosemann & Associates deliver mindfully designed housing solutions for every generation and all income levels cultivated across three decades of examining how people live in built environments. Don Rosemann founded the firm in 1987 with the commitment and main objective of contributing to the success of clients and firm associates. This foundation has created a culture that is people-centric, family-focused, and fun. Through exceptional and environmentally responsible design, we stay focused on your long-term return on investment and the specific goals you have for each project. We are sincere about our craft and successful in building lasting relationships cultivated by trust and a clear understanding that we place your missions and long-term operations first.
Slaggie Architects
We are architects, interior designers, and planners dedicated to creating thoughtful, enduring spaces. Our work is guided by close collaboration, client-focused design, and a deep commitment to enhancing communities. We believe successful architecture is built on genuine partnerships, creative problem-solving, and a shared vision of excellence.
Slattery Design + Architecture
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 Architecture
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.
Treanor
Treanor was founded with the belief that architecture can positively shape our world. We have been honored with award-winning architectural projects on incredible teams that turn dreams into reality and obstacles into solutions. We have also been named an outstanding emerging professional friendly firm multiple years in a row for our dedication to mentoring new talent and growing young professionals.
Zahner
Since 1897 and across four generations, the family-owned business of A. Zahner Company produced highly crafted architectural metalwork for artists and architects around the globe. Throughout the company’s history, employees at Zahner have developed advanced metal surfaces and systems for both functional and ornamental architectural forms.