ABOUT
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Dan Meis is a senior principal at Populous, now leading the firm’s new Los Angeles-area office. With over 25 years of experience. Dan began a very diverse career in large-scale civic and commercial architecture soon after graduating from the University of Illinois in 1985. As a young designer in the office of Murphy/Jahn Architects, he worked on award-winning office towers in Chicago; New York; Frankfurt, Germany; and Durban, South Africa. In 1992, Dan became a Design Principal at the LA office of Ellerbe Becket, where he designed Europe's largest indoor arena - Nynex Arena in Manchester, England. In 1995, he won the international design competition for the $750 million Saitama Super Arena in Japan. This mixed-use structure is capable of mechanically transforming a 10,000-seat arena to a 35,000-seat stadium, which hosts NFL exhibition games and Japan League Soccer. Later, as the Co-Founding Design Partner for NBBJ Sports and Entertainment, Dan designed sports, entertainment, and convention facilities that were well-acclaimed including Staples Center in Los Angeles, the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati. Paul Brown Stadium was the first NFL facility to win an AIA design award. Dan's design for Los Angeles' Staples Center has been heralded as the "greatest arena ever built," and in 2001 he was featured in Time Magazine as one of their "100 Innovators in the World of Sports." His work has twice been awarded the prestigious Business Week/Architectural Record Award, recognizing the value of design to a client's business, and he is the only architect twice recognized as one of Sports Business Journal's "40 under 40 Most Influential Sports Executives". Dan's work has been featured in numerous publications, and he is a frequent lecturer at architectural schools nationwide. Dan founded MEIS Architects in 2006 as a specialty architecture and design practice focused on the design of sports, entertainment and civic buildings. He has built a unique practice combining the innovation and creativity of a boutique design studio with the practicality and delivery typically found exclusively in a large, corporate architectural office. Later, Dan joined Aedas – the world's second largest architectural practice – to establish Aedas Sport, and was the Managing Partner of Aedas LA in Venice, California. |