Glen Berry, FAIA

 

Glen Berry is a fourth generation Idahoan, and a descendent of working-class British Isle and German immigrants.  His mother, Marlene, was an art education major in college.  She taught Glen how to draw, paint, and sculpt at an early age.    Glen grew up in Idaho, Utah, and New York.  As a teenager living in Yorktown, New York, he had the opportunity to visit New York City many times, and experience the great architecture of that city.  He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in Art & Design, followed by a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Utah.  As an architecture student, he worked for FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City, where he worked on the first of many science building projects, the Eccles Genetics Research Building for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the University of Utah.  

 

After completing his Master of Architecture degree, for the next 12 years he worked as a Laboratory Architect for RFD in San Diego, The Stichler Design Group in San Diego, GPR Planners (now Jacobs Consultancy) in Costa Mesa, California, and HOK in Irvine, California.  

 

In the summer of 2000, Glen founded Design for Science, LLC, in direct response to a demand from architects for a lab planning consultant who was willing to share their experience and knowledge base, but allow the architects and engineers to do the construction documents.    The key tool of the practice is the development of lab design sketchbooks, in which the lab design is conveyed in a clear and concise way that allows the  lab users to understand the lab design before construction documents are created and the building is built.  For 20 years, until June of 2019, Glen provided laboratory design consulting to architects across the US and overseas.

 

In November of 2018, Glen joined HERA Lab Planners in St. Louis as a Senior Laboratory Architect.   In July of 2021, Glen left HERA and joined Gensler in San Francisco, as part of the science building design team.

 

Glen is a registered architect in Utah, Texas, Idaho, and Nevada, and is certified with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).   

 

Glen was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects on 2022 February 18.