Firm – Stull & Lee, Incorporated

PROFILE

Founded in 1966, Stull and Lee, Incorporated is an award-winning architecture, urban design and planning firm. The firm’s experience includes the design of multi-family housing and single family residences and the design of educational and health care facilities; office buildings, R&D, retail and manufacturing facilities. The S+L portfolio also includes highway infrastructure; transit stations and related facilities. A significant portion of the firm’s work is in institutional master planning and large scale urban design and planning commissions nationwide.

Stull and Lee projects have frequently been cited for design excellence, including the Presidential Design Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the American Institute of Architects, and its Boston and New England affiliates. Many projects have appeared in national and international publications including: Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Architecture, Urban Design Magazine, Metropolitan Home, Newsweek, AU (Japan), Baumeister (Germany) and L’Industria Delle Construzioni (Italy) and in the publication Designing the American City (China Architecture and Building Press) Stull and Lee Inc. is a Massachusetts Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).

LEADERSHIP

Don L. Stull, FAIA (Retired)

Founding Partner

Donald L. Stull, is the founding partner of Stull and Lee and is a graduate of Ohio State University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a member or the distinguished College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and previously held appointments on the design faculties of Harvard and Yale. Mr. Stull frequently serves on local and national panels and commissions including the National Accreditation Board of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the Boston Civic Design Commission, Historic Boston, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Stull received the Boston Society of Architects’ 1997 Award of Honor.

M. David Lee, FAIA

President

M. David Lee is the President and managing partner. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds joint degrees in Architecture and Urban Design. He is a former Adjunct Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has served on the faculties of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Lee is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and is a past President of the Boston Society of Architects. He was the recipient of the BSA’s 2000 Award of Honor. He formerly served on the Design Arts Overview Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Lee lectures and consults nationally and internationally on matters of urban design and architecture. He is the immediate past Chair of the Massachusetts College of Art Board or Trustees.

Kevin Benjamin, RA

Design Principal

Kevin Benjamin, a practicing architect and graduate of Harvard College and MIT’s school of Architecture, is an accomplished designer who for over twenty-five years has led or played a significant role in a number of award winning S+L projects. He has been responsible for the design of a wide range of types including multi-family housing, commercial, educational and institutional projects as well as transportation facilities. Proficient in the use of a variety of computer based design and 3D visualization tools, his unique combination of architectural design and visual representation skills are particularly useful in communicating design ideas to clients, stakeholders, and governmental agencies.

Thomas Maistros, RA

Project Manager

Thomas Maistros is a practicing architect, urban designer, and development consultant with over 30 years professional experience in building design, public approvals processes, environmental review, and project management. He spent over 14 years in the public sector facilitating project and design review processes working with public agencies, developers, and/or civic groups, including serving as the Executive Director of the Boston Civic Design Commission. More recently he applied his project management and design skills to the health care industry as the Managing Director for Facilities and Planning at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and a Project Manager with Partners HealthCare Real Estate Group.

Vision, Content, and Detail Grounded in Theory and Creative Invention.

At Stull and Lee we approach each project with the understanding that architecture and urban design require not only creativity, but also practicality, responsibility and organization. We avoid the direct application of stored solutions, whether found via research or in our past work. While the importance of experience must not be denied, its proper role is to inform the creative process of design and not simply to offer a palette of past options from which to choose Equally important to our design approach, is the inclusion of the client throughout the design process. In each project, we strive for design solutions that are uniquely responsive to time and place.