
Joshua Harrold
AIAPrincipal, Architecture
Josh Harrold is a Principal at BNIM with nearly two decades of experience creating a body of work that has earned regional and national recognition. His practice bridges architecture, planning, and cultural storytelling, consistently working at the intersection of landscape, architecture, interiors, and technology to deepen the relationship between people and place. Josh brings a regionalist’s sensibility and a modernist’s approach to every endeavor, shaping spaces as living biographies of the communities they serve.
He is an ideas-based architect who operates at the duality of excitement and focus, idealism and pragmatism, physical and metaphysical. His process is rooted in thorough analysis, rigorous investigation, and meticulous execution — blending strategic thinking with deep empathy. Most recently, Josh has applied this approach to transformative projects including the Missouri State University Ozarks Education Center, the Springfield Art Museum and Master Plan, Kirk Family YMCA, Career and Technical Education Center and Fine Arts + Design Studios at Johnson County Community College, the Kansas City International Airport Garage, and BNIM’s headquarters prototype Building Positive—a pioneering model integrating four of the most stringent sustainable design standards.

Select Experience
- Kirk Family YMCAKansas City, Missouri
- KCI Parking GarageKansas City, Missouri
- Ozarks Education Center Bull Shoals Field StationMissouri State UniversityCedarcreek, Missouri
- Blunt Hall College of Natural and Applied SciencesMissouri State UniversitySpringfield, Missouri
- Career and Technical Education CenterJohnson County Community CollegeOverland Park, Kansas
- Fine Arts + Design StudiosJohnson County Community CollegeOverland Park, Kansas
- Springfield Art Museum - Master PlanSpringfield, Missouri
- Building Positive: a Four-in-one PrototypeKansas City, Missouri
- East Campus Framework and Master PlanWashington University in St.LouisSt. Louis, Missouri
Education
Bachelor of Architecture
Drury University
Bachelor of Studio Art
Drury University
Registrations
Registered Architect: MO
Media
News
- Josh Harrold Featured Guest Author for SCUP
- SCUP 2021 North Central Regional Conference: Regionalism, Ecology, and Field Based Learning in the Ozark Mountains
- Ozarks Education Center Featured in Fall Issue of AN Interior
- MSU Ozarks Education Center Featured in Metal Architecture
- BNIM Announces New Principal Leadership