Andrew Moddrell, Director, Registered Architect-Illinois
M.Arch, Yale University
B.Arch, The University of Kansas
Andrew Moddrell is a founding director of PORT. Previously, Mr. Moddrell was a project architect and project manager for two internationally recognized architecture and urban design practices based in Chicago. At Garofalo Architects, he was the project architect for the ground-up design studio building for Archrival, a cutting-edge youth marketing agency, as well as the 25,000SF commercial office design for Thornton-Tomasetti, a leading international structural engineering firm. Moddrell additionally led Garofalo Architects' Chicago 2016 Olympics tennis venue preliminary design and participated in the History Channel's invited 2106 City of the Future competition.
At UrbanLab, he worked on the Master Plan and Sustainable Growth Guidelines for the Downtown Redevelopment of Aurora, Illinois while also participating in National Science Foundation Grant research investigating computer simulated modeling of urban activity and form as a Research Associate at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Mr. Moddrell is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching graduate and undergraduate design studios at the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Architecture. He has also taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and was a graduate teaching fellow at Yale University.
Mr. Moddrell holds a B.Arch with distinction from The University of Kansas, where he was awarded the Thayer Medal for Architectural Design, and an M.Arch from Yale University, where he was awarded the H.I. Feldman Prize for Design Excellence.
