About Cope Architecture
At Cope Architecture, we listen to you. We are team collaborators, building a specialized team for each specific project. We work hard to assemble the right group of people to meet your needs and we take pride in our professional project management expertise. Clients come back again and again because we have become their trusted advisor and an asset to their team. Those relationships are the heart of our firm and we value them highly.
Leadership
Cayce S. Petko, AIA
President
Jim Hinton, AIA, LEED AP
Vice President
Peter Ludman, AIA
Director of Design
Mission Statement
As a design firm, we believe in the importance of learning, listening, innovating, contributing and communicating. We are committed to provide our clients with a meaningful design, a technically skilled team and professional client service.
Brian Pierce, AIA
Senior Project Manager
Doug Whitted
Construction Administrator
Emilee Erland
Office Manager
Grant Tharp
Consultant
Isa Richards
Architectural Designer
Jeff Michael
Construction Administrator
Joe Fielden
Construction Administrator
Josiah Schelling
Architectural Designer
Kevin Miner
Construction Administrator
Lanis L. Cope, AIA
Founder & President Emeritus
Leah Greenwood
Architectural Designer
Luke Lancaster
Architectural Designer
Margaretjean Smith
Architectural Designer
Michael Grider
Consultant, External Relations
Patrick Schroeder
Project Architect
Robert Lundin, AIA
Project Manager
Sarah Hooper
Director of Business Development
Scott Webb, AIA
Project Manager
Shehreen Saleh
Architectural Designer
Simone Hashmi
Architectural Designer
Susan Davis
Project Manager
Taniya Vinod
Architectural Designer
Tiffany Eigenmann
Accounting Manager
Cayce S. Petko, AIA
President
Cayce has 21 years of leadership and design experience in all phases of architecture. Cayce holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is currently serving as the firm’s President. She is experienced in all the phases of architecture and the supportive consultant disciplines required to accomplish an integrated product. This includes programming, engineering consultant coordination, pre-design, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bid process, construction administration, project close-out, post construction and client management. In addition, she is experienced with coordinating project requirements with numerous regulatory agencies to address applicable code requirements and regulations.
Jim Hinton, AIA, LEED AP
Vice President
Jim Hinton has over 18 years’ experience as a Principal Architect and Project Manager on a wide variety of multi-discipline teams performing conceptual planning, programming, master planning, design, and construction administration services for both new facilities and renovations. He has spent the last 26 years designing, managing and leading teams on a wide array of large, complex projects in markets such as local government, federal, industrial, K-12 education, and higher education. Jim is able to lead multi-disciplined teams to achieve client satisfaction and project success. Mr. Hinton is thoroughly familiar with the processes, systems, and procedures in all phases of design, management, and implementation of project goals and missions.
Peter Ludman, AIA
Director of Design