Résumé

Design Principal, Ellerbe Becket, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, and Kansas City, MO, 1992- .

Architect, Murphy / Jahn, Architects, Chicago, IL, c. 1996.

Architect / Co-founder, NBBJ, Sports and Entertainment, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1995- . Within the Seattle-based firm of NBBJ, Hallmark co-founded this Los Angeles studio along with Ronald F. Turner and Daniel R. Meis (born 1961). By 1999, this division of NBBJ employed approximately 70 people. This studio situated itself in Los Angeles not Kansas City, MO, where the dominant sports architecture firms had settled. According to the Los Angeles Times in 1999: "NBBJ Sports & Entertainment is one of the few major sports architecture firms that is not headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., where a group of firms--including HOK Sport and Ellerbee Becket--dominate the design of sporting facilities nationwide. NBBJ’s location in the heart of the entertainment industry has clearly influenced its work, said Meis. 'We noticed the emergence of entertainment as important to sports,' Meis said. 'It was a calculated decision on our part to be in one of the entertainment capitals. The background of the talent we recruit in Los Angeles is very much different' from that in Kansas City." (See Jesus Sanchez, Los Angeles Times.com, "NBBJ Sports Co-Founder to Quit, Form Consulting Firm," published 05/18/1999, accessed 03/17/2023.)

Principal, MEIS Architects, Venice, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY, 2007- 2021. The New York office was established in 2013. (See MEIS.com, "Dan Meis, FAIA," accessed 03/13/2023.) In 2021, MEIS Architects became a subsidiary of Perkins Eastman Architects of New York, NY.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 2006.

Awardee, Time Magazine, "100 Innovators in the World of Sports," 2001.

Recipient, Business Week / Architectural Record Award, two awards.

Awardee, Sports Business Journal, "40 under 40" of notable sports industry executives, twice named.

Recipient, AIA Honor Award, Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH.

College

B.Arch., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1985.

Relocation

Meis has resided in Kansas City, MO, Windsor, CO, and Chicago, IL, (c. 1996). In Kansas City, Meis would likely have worked for one of the leading sports architecture firms (likely Ellerbe Becket's sports studio) headquartered there.

In the late 2010s, Meis had residences in Beverly Hills, CA, and Chappaqua, NY. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information: U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020, accessed 03/13/2023.)