Carleigh Pope earned her architecture degree just two years ago, but already she’s an owner of her firm. In October 2023, BNIM, an early pioneer in sustainable design with offices in Kansas City, Des Moines, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., joined the ranks of architecture offices that are 100 percent employee-owned—a growing list that includes Zaha Hadid Architects, SHoP Architects, and Gensler.
Pope, who has also been an active member of Kansas City’s NOMA chapter, said the announcement came as a pleasant surprise that underscored BNIM’s values of collaboration and transparency and also contrasted with the experiences of some of her peers. “When we made our
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