About Us

545architect is a collaboration between several people with a range of skills and expertise and interests – designers, colleagues, contractors, craftsman, artists, clients – who all lead separate lives around the country but enjoy contributing to unique opportunities, competitions, research innovation and design explorations for the advancement of architecture and design. Client commissioned works are coordinated by Darla V. Lindberg, a registered architect and tenured associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University.

_Profiles

Darla V. Lindberg Candice Knight Danielle Zoé Rivera Adam Longenbach David Mosemann Scott Tucker

_545 Explained

545architect was initially coined by my students. My initials are DVL, classical Roman numerals for 500_5_50. During a typical studio conversation one day they proposed if following Roman numeral rules (sometimes a lower value numeral in front of – to the left of – a higher value numeral to indicate that the lower value should be subtracted from the adjacent higher value) my initials might be 545. Writing 545 in classical Roman numerals might more technically look like DXLV, but they weren't looking to write 545, they just did the math for DVL. In any event, as an architect who collaborates in research with applied mathematicians and uses Game Theory in my research and teaching, it seemed appropriate, and it stuck.

– Darla

_Site Credits

Architectural photography | Candice Knight Photography
Website design | Scott Tucker, fell.design