Core to Shore Planning Team: Hans Butzer
TAParchitecture

Hans serves as TAParchitecture’s Principal of Design. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas, Austin and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University. Butzer’s work involves issues ranging in scale from urban planning/public policy to urban design, buildings, landscape and art. His award-winning designs cover a wide range of typologies such as civic, educational, commercial and residential. He lectures extensively throughout the United States, speaking on topics pertaining to the integration of architecture, landscape, art and communities.

While at TAP, Hans has worked on a number of planning and urban design projects, including: The Triangle Mixed Use Development, Oakerhater Episcopal Mission, Chandler Armory Route 66 Interpretive Center, the Maywood Park Brownstones, and I-40 Relocation Area Planning Study (Core to Shore).

His designs have been reviewed in hundreds of journals, newspapers, books, television and radio interviews and on-line publications both in the United States and Europe. As co-designers of the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Hans and wife Torrey also won national and international accolades.

Hans is committed to our state’s future and to teaching its young people to succeed in a globalizing society, see the world then return to Oklahoma to make our community even better. To this end, Butzer is a tenured professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Architecture.