Fred Andrew Simpson
Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 9:38AM 
For more than twenty years Fred Andrew Simpson, participated in the execution of planning, design, architecture, engineering, contracting, and construction administration services on millions of square feet of facilities for educational, municipal, institutional, correctional, health care and residential clients. In that time he developed a skill set peculiar to facilitating the development of the built environment.
He has further served the central Texas region and his local community in other capacities as:
Board of Directors, Circle Arts Theatre, New Braunfels, Texas
An Adjunct Professor, St Philip's College, San Antonio, Texas
Advisory Board Member in design and computer aided drawing at St Philip's College
A Director on the board of The Brighton Center for Inclusive Communities.
A Director of the Jefferson Woodlawn Lake Community Development Corporation
A Member of the Empowerment Zone Governance Board of the City of San Antonio
A Member of the Business and Education committee and the Transportation committee with the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce
As a Project Manager and Design Professional in Responsible Charge, Mr. Simpson has worked with many important and exciting clients including: public and private schools, churches, municipalities and counties, non-profit charitable organizations, development and Industrial interests and select residential patrons
Career Highlights Include:
Owner's Project Representative
Stakeholder Workshops
Design Charrettes
Illustration
Masterplanning
Site Design
Form Based Coding and Design Standards
Grant Support
Property Condition Assessment
Architectural Services
Analysis and Reports
Public Speaking
Public Building Design
Construction Documents
Contract Administration
Community Development
Higher Education
After studying Fine Art on a 1985 scholarship from the MacMahon Foundation at Cameron University College of Art under Benson Warren, Kathy Liontas, and Christi Dietz, he studied architecture at the University of Oklahoma under, Michael Iver Wahl, AIA; Patricia Edson, AIA: Joel Dietrich, AIA; Terry L. Patterson, AIA; Bruce Goff Professors: Joseph Esherick, FAIA; and Gunnar Birkerts. And he conversed regularly with Architect Richard N. Kuhlman, AIA. As the president of AIA Student Chapter, he chauffeured Gunnar Birkerts and Larry Speck, AIA in his 1974 Chevy Nova. (Gunnar Birkerts was clearly not impressed with the old hotrod nor the student's lack of knowledge of Russian Constructivism). Larry Speck seemed to dig the car and advised something to the effect of: "School shouldn't get in the way of your education."
In 1991 He designed public schools, voluminous manufacturing infrastructure, historic upgrades and a law enforcement / EOC facility with Galen May, AIA of Victoria, Texas and later with the late James D. Pfluger, FAIA of Austin, Texas. In 1993 He worked with Perry Rabke and Lorraine Dailey at Edward R. Gondeck, Architects to bring that firm from pen-registered mylar drawing into the world of computer aided drafting, while drawing plans for eleven county law enforcement facilities. He established Archimedia as a sole practice in 1995 after working with Overland Partners Incorporated of San Antonio, Texas on religious and educational facilities as well as masterplanning and multifamily residential projects. It was at OPI, that Andy was introduced to planning principals which would later become widely known as Traditional Neighborhood Development, courtesy of The Congress for New Urbanism. Principals of business and personal life learned at Overland, still illuminate Andy's practice now fifteen years hence.
A keen interest in the value of more humane places made for people to live and thrive, and in the value of reasonable responses to urban development challenges, present and future has led Andy to advocate form-based coding as a mechanism for empowering stakeholders from all backgrounds to implement Traditional Neighborhoods and Towns containing a full panoply of space types within a walkable, bikable, strollable, drivable, economically vibrant framework.
Andy lives in the great suburban megalopolis ajoining San Antonio, Texas with his wife Teresa and their family.
Chime in to tell him about you and your new project.