Joshua Harrold

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.