Highly Processed
Sebastian Schmaling, AIA, LEED AP, Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Over the last 15 years, Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects has established itself as one of America’s leading voices in contemporary architecture. At a time when the quiet, the subtle, and the profound are increasingly viewed as archaic values incompatible with today’s short attention spans, the award-winning work of Johnsen Schmaling Architects stands out for its conceptual rigor, serene simplicity, and formal restraint. Sebastian Schmaling, AIA, LEED AP, founding principal of Johnsen Schmaling and the Fitzhugh Scott Professor at UWM’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning, will review recent projects as case studies to discuss his firm’s elaborate design process, one in which the reading of context and cultural memory translates into an abstract architectural narrative that informs the entire evolution of a project – from initial conceptual ideas to the development of intricate construction details.