Tom Nelson will also be participating in the discussion on June 28th. Tom is a founding Principal of BNIM (Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell) Architects, a prominent Kansas City architecture, planning and interiors firm. Tom is a graduate of the University of Kansas and worked in Houston, Boston and London before returning to Kansas City and founding the firm with three others in 1970.
The firm, and Tom in particular, has focused on development plans and urban projects – from simple to large building complexes – and neighborhood developments. He has been Design Principal for numerous award winning projects including Truman State Office Building, The Deramus Pavilion at the Kansas City Zoo, Earthworks, The University of Missouri Life Sciences Center, Bartle Conference Center and has been Design and Project Principal on most of BNIM’s downtown office buildings and corporate headquarters including DST’s campus and One Kansas City Place. He directed BNIM’s effort on the Kansas City’s FOCUS plan and the Light Rail Transit Plan.
He is a former president of Kansas City AIA and former president of the Kansas City Architectural Foundation. Tom has been an Adjunct Professor at KSU, a studio design critic and guest lecturer at KU, KSU, and UMKC and has served as a juror/critic on AIA, university, regional and national general design awards programs. In 1986 Tom received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Kansas School of Architecture and in 1987 was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
Tom is a former Chairman of the Kansas City Plan Commission and chaired committees for the Mid-America Regional Council and the Downtown Council and served on many civic committees and task forces concerned with the urban environment and with transportation. He was recently a Director on the national AIA Board representing the Central States Region and is on the Board of Scenic Missouri and Scenic America. Tom is married with four children and three grandchildren and resides in Kansas City, Missouri.
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