WS Sandbox

Native Miamian Scott Kyle, AIA LEED, spent his early years exploring salt and freshwater environments of the Florida Keys and Everglades. A tinkerer by birth, he kept busy taking apart, and sometimes putting back together, most of the important electronics of his family home, eventually graduating to more meaningful (according to his parents) renovation projects. Texas became second home during his late teens and twenties where he earned an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering with minors in Architectural History and Botany. His undergraduate thesis involved the investigation of the effects of electrically-induced, magnetic fields on the healing of the anterior cruciate ligament. At his first job he developed pressure-activated impact switches and myo-electric training devices to help kids with walking disorders and artificial limbs through the Engineering Research Lab at Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas. As environmental concerns mounted and became the major focus of his life, Scott went back to school to study ecology and architecture and earned a Master of Architecture with a specialization in Energy Systems and Design from Texas A&M in 1997. His master’s thesis explored community involvement in the sustainable design process for the East Austin YMCA.

Continuing his dedication to sustainable design after graduation, Scott pursued green project experience with the award winning firm Lord Aeck Sargent in Atlanta. In 2001 he and his wife moved to Richmond for her entry into VCU’s graduate sculpture program. Seeing an opportunity to bring green to children he took a job at BCWH Architects where he initiated and directed their sustainable design focus while designing several award-winning green schools and a VCU facility, earning seven of BCWH’s 12 most recent architectural design awards. In 2002 he started the James River Green Building Council with four of his green colleagues and is a current Board member. He has served on the Virginia AIA Design Committee since 2004 and recently started the Committee on the Environment for the Richmond AIA with another green colleague. He also runs and helped start the Richmond Green Drinks program and has just started his own firm in Richmond, Full Scale Architecture, to focus all of his efforts on sustainable design and sustainable business practices.