About Us

Since 1999, Kelty Tappy Design, Inc. has emerged as a unique regional provider of high-quality architectural services, consistently producing designs and construction documents for more than $30,000,000.00 in construction in each of the last five years. From health care and education to creative adaptive re-use of existing buildings, Kelty Tappy Design, Inc. provides lightning-fast professional response with precision design.

Architecture has changed dramatically in the past 40 years. The industry is many generations past the traditional blueprint. Today’s construction documents can be modified before noon and final “prints” can be digitally distributed to contractors and vendors in real time. While this dynamic is powerful, it comes at a cost: in some quarters, the velocity of the work has marginalized the philosophy of service. Architects once readily shouldered their responsibility to serve their clients with vigor.

Architects who serve well listen well; they explore every opportunity for savings; they squeeze every ounce of use from every square foot; they advise clearly even when the advice may not match the client’s view. Kelty Tappy Design, Inc. assumes the mantle of the client, seeing your concern as our concern. The work of architects cannot be about professional fee or about ego—it must be an exhaustive service to the client: reliable designs; clean, well-ordered documents; and in the end, a constant drive to help you achieve your mission.  

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"Servant-architecture requires a servant’s heart."