AIA Emerging Professionals
We would like to thank the South Carolina AIA Emerging Professionals Group for recognizing Thompson Young Design!
Monthly Member Bio
Jonathan Thompson, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP & Simons Young, AIA
Founders and Principals
Thompson Young Design, Charleston, SC
In the summer of 2009, Jon Thompson and Simons Young, former Clemson University classmates (March 2006), began their design practice, Thompson Young Design, in Charleston, SC.
After graduate school, Jon worked with LS3P ASSOCIATES’ federal design studio including notable contribution on an Army Reserve office facility at Fort Jackson, SC, and the 840,000 SF Missile Defense Agency Headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Jon led a team in the implementation and delivery of construction documentation Building Information Modeling technology, and as a LEED accredited professional, he strives to optimize design through the use of sustainable design principles.
After practicing in San Francisco with renowned preservation architecture firm, Page & Turnbull, Simons Young returned to his native Charleston, bringing with him a profound respect for sustainability and experience in both large and small re-use, renovation and rehabilitation projects. While in California, his work ranged from multi-family…..