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Weekly UpdatesPolk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects Ltd. and Wilcox Group Architects, both award-winning firms of Little Rock, have merged.
In the latest survey of architectural firms by Arkansas Business, Polk Stanley has eight architects and Wilcox has 10. The combined firm makes it the third-largest in the state behind Cromwell Architects Engineers Inc. with 27 architects and Wittenberg Delony & Davidson Architects With 20 architects. Both are Little Rock firms.
The merged firm, Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, will locate in the current offices of the Wilcox firm in the Riverdale area. It will continue to operate a Fayetteville office, and will have a total of 40 employees.
The principals of the new firm are Joe Stanley, CEO; Steve Kinzler, president/chief operating officer; and Craig Curzon, Paul Gregory, Jason Landrum, Ross McCain, David Porter, Reese Rowland and Wesley Walls.
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The two firms have worked closely on numerous projects in recent years, many involving the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus, Rowland said, and the merger is simply a natural progression of that work. "It's not about being bigger, but being better," he said.
"It's a merger of two equal firms," Rowland said. Wilcox had strengths in health care and Polk Stanley had strengths in the corporate, nonprofit and education fields. "It's a bold move that we've been planning for a long time."
Polk Stanley, founded in 1977, and Wilcox, founded in 1989, have created some of the state's most distinguished landmarks and have won numerous awards, the most recent of which was the American Institute of Architects National Institute Honor Award for the Heifer International headquarters building in Little Rock. Both also have been in the forefront of the green movement in architecture.
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