Partner | KMB Architects
Gregory is a partner with KMB architects in Seattle, Washington, and leads their Justice and Behavioral Health market sectors, leveraging his experience in architecture, facility planning, and client management to support the firm’s mission and core values. Greg is passionate about designing buildings that provide benefits that extend beyond their walls with an understanding the that the impact of the built environment on the psychological and physical wellbeing of a person is central to promoting healthy, equitable communities.
Courses
Davidson County Criminal Justice Center and SPMI Unit: Academy of Architecture for Justice 2021 Justice Facility Review
The Davidson County Metro Criminal Justice Center offers a mission-driven approach to detention, diversion, and treatment in downtown Nashville. This session will present the description of the need, process, and design of the new Davidson Criminal Justice Center and Behavioral Care Center by HOK. The new facility for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) provides an opportunity to evaluate prisoners’ emotional and psychological needs at the early stages of processing, and includes spaces for therapy. HOK’s contemporary design blends the often competing missions of security and treatment.
Course expires 12/07/2025
Dillwynia Correctional Centre Expansion
The Dillwynia Correctional Centre Expansion offers a design solution considerate of recognizing trauma via an approach to rehabilitative design. This session will present the methods and challenges encountered when designing for a Women’s Prison, and some of the successes of implemented design initiatives. In essence, the new facility combines materiality, with a masterplan designed to promote familiarity and self-agency which aim to provide an environment whereby new activities and learning pathways can be conducted in a safe and supportive environment.
Interactions within the prison environment is becoming increasingly identified as a keystone to any prisoner’s rehabilitation and support process. Relationships between prisoners, staff and visitors all contribute to the shaping of the experience and outcomes of the prison term. Spaces that provide for families, children and friends should allow for a semblance of normality and respect to all involved in the visitation process. At Dillwynia the Visitor Centre has been designed with materials not becoming of a prison environment, exhibiting color, natural materials and light to allow the interactions to occur unencumbered of the sense of authority and typically harsh ambience found in older prison environments.
Course expires 10/03/2025
Design Excellence in Design/Build
This presentation highlights how design and construction can come together to create a stunning structure, such as the new Johnson County Kansas Courthouse. The panel will showcase how design excellence can be achieved through the design-build delivery method.
Course expires 03/27/2026