Kathleen Kulpa

I've always liked architecture, math, and been interested in engineering and buildings, so architecture was sort of a logical path for me, though I didn't know much about it until I went to school for it. I took a couple of drafting and architectural classes in high school back in Connecticut, and my teacher there had gone to Syracuse for architecture and recommended I look into that. I ended up going to Northeastern for more of an art degree, a more general degree, and took some architecture classes there, then went to Syracuse for grad school. When I graduated and got my first job, a lot of women back then were kind of geared towards managing or interior work a lot of times, and for me that just wasn't very fulfilling. I happened to get a job with an exterior consultant in New York, and it ended up just really fitting. That's where I got super lucky to understand what I wanted to do, and that hasn't changed over the years. I've been with Ennead since 2000, working with multiple teams in the office, helping them develop their exterior wall designs and detailing and specifications to put together a set for construction. I find going through and creating a detail that really reflects the overall design very rewarding if we get it right. I enjoy working with the teams, especially the younger people, to help them understand how we put things together.