ROGER GRUNKE, AIA, CBC

Registered Architect and state certified Building Contractor with experience in historic preservation, rehabilitation, contextual new-commercial and new-residential design, landscape-design, re-zonings, grant writing, teaching and urban advocacy.

University of Florida / Bachelor of Architecture professional degree 1972
Historic American Building Survey—Nantucket Institute 1968
Florida Department of State / Palm Beach County Site Nominations 1970
Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach Survey 1969-1972
Walden Fellowship recipient 1972
European work / study 1972- 1977
National Endowment for the Arts “Architect-in-the-School” 1979- 1983
Architectural Registration Internship Program 1983- 1986
Florida Architectural Registration 1986
Atelier Group, Inc. (interior design partnership) 1986- 1989
Roger Grunke and Associates (residential design and investment partnership) 1990- 1998
Florida Building Contractor License 1993
Grunke + associates (sole proprietor) 1998- present
   
Adjunct instructor: International Academy of Design, Tampa, FL 2000
Adjunct instructor: Art Institute of Tampa 2005-2007  

Publications
Roger GRUNKE’s designs, construction and op-ed articles have been featured in Southern Living Magazine; Florida Home and Garden Magazine; Tampa Tribune Flair Magazine; and the AIA Florida Caribbean Architect Magazine. GRUNKE is a regular contributor to community newspapers and e-magazines. The Tampa Community Design Center’s publication Respectful Rehab featured his pen-and-ink illustrations of Tampa’s historic housing styles.

Community Engagement
GRUNKE is a Commissioner for the City of Tampa’s Barrio Latino Architectural Review and is active in the Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Association’s Land-use Committee. He is co-founder of the Tampa Bay AIA Architectural Heritage Committee and President of Friends of Kiley Garden.

Awards
“Palms Connection Shopping Plaza” – award of merit / Tampa Hillsborough Planning Commission, 1991; “Hyde Park Gateway”—Outstanding Achievement New Infill / Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, 2007; “Bern’s Accessory Structure”—award of merit / Tampa Hillsborough Planning Commission, 2008, and Outstanding Achievement New Infill / Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, 2008.

 







502 E Ross Av #B-13 | 813 443 6829 | roger at GRUNKEdesign.com