Good design fosters places that are loved & lovable where the virtuous life is lived.

Daniel P. DeGreve, Architect pursues excellence in the design of beautiful places, spaces, and furnishings for clients who seek authentic experience through a modern originality founded on traditional patterns and principles.

Daniel believes products of good design ought to be conceived as thoughtfully reasoned, delightfully composed responses to the needs and goals of the client, the conditions of the site, and the project budget. Design at the scale of the neighborhood, individual building, building addition, building renovation, or furnishing should reconcile existing disparities and greatly reward the experiences of users, guests, and passersby. Daniel is passionate about getting every aspect of design and project delivery right, from the overall impact of the intervention to the craftsmanship of its smallest detail so as to render expert clarity of the client's vision, provide a sustainable pattern for future growth, and impart a lasting sense of fulfillment.

Civilizations throughout time and place have produced languages of traditional architecture founded upon principles of wholeness, ordered arrangement, harmonious proportion, proper allocation of materials, ennobling ornament, and concord with nature to express the attributes of perfection - truth, beauty, and goodness. These languages grew out of rudimentary customs that rewarded human aesthetic expectations and were clarified by successive generations over centuries and millennia through the competitive process of emulation. While the historian's term 'Classical' refers to the family of traditional architectural languages that manifest the aforementioned principles with the most refinement, many other traditional languages from around the world, including Byzantine and Gothic, have their own cogent systems of order, proportion, and ornament for representing the manifestation of perfection. The vast store of human inventiveness has enriched the material palette, expressive articulation, and embodied meaning of all living languages of traditional architecture, causing them to transcend mere historical periods / styles and be ever relevant. In addition to the traditional languages of monumental architecture for temples and institutions, there are the vernacular adaptations that have shaped our concept of home and neighborhood. Like traditional architecture, traditional urbanism is based on principles of wholeness, order, ornament, and clarity, rendering towns and cities laid out in patterns of streets, blocks, and squares that are walkable, memorable, and integrated through a mixture of uses.

Daniel has a zeal for engaging traditional architectural and urbanistic grammars with a fresh and reverent eloquence, practicing architecture and urbanism in dialogue with excellent models worthy of emulation as well as embracing contemporary building technologies proven to augment affordability and durability.

Daniel P. DeGreve, Architect offers a full range of services that include:

These services usually form a phased sequence in which the architect works with the client to develop an idea into built realty.  However, the process is not the same for every client. Daniel tailors the project design and delivery process to meet the unique circumstances of each project based on the type and level of service that is needed by the client.

Daniel grew up in a small town in north central Ohio with a fondness for drawing and modeling imaginary buildings and cities.  He began to immerse himself in books about real buildings and cities after a pivotal trip to Italy in 1988. In 1996, Daniel began his architectural training at the University of Cincinnati, where he participated in a two-year work/study program, conducted research during an academic quarter in Paris, and earned his professional Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2002. Following several formative years of internship, Daniel was accepted into the post-professional graduate architecture program at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture to advance his studies in Classical Architecture and Traditional Urbanism, which included a semester of study at the School's prestigious center in Rome. Daniel earned his Master of Architectural Design and Urbanism degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and became a licensed architect in 2011.  After working for distinguished architecture firms in Columbus, Ohio and Washington, D.C., Daniel returned to Ohio in 2018.