Principals
Kendall Dorman
Kendall comes from Lincoln, Nebraska, and he has a MArch degree from the Arizona State University. He has worked as an architect in Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, and in Washington, DC. He came to this firm in 1992, and became a partner in 1994. He is a founding member of Kill Architects, a group that investigates social issues through architecture and art.
John Wiebenson (1935-2003)
John's four decade career took him from coast to coast through cities like San Francisco, Denver, Boston and Washington, DC. He wrote articles about architecture, and his ‘Buildings That Teach’ was featured in the 2/98 Educational Leadership. Most of his articles were traditional in form, but some ten years’ worth appeared as a didactic comic, ‘Archihorse.’ He also taught architecture, first at the University of Maryland and Yale, and most recently at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Associates
Samson Cheng, LEED AP
After 3 years at the main campus, a semester in Switzerland, and a year and a half at the Washington Alexandria Campus, Samson graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a thesis on a Slow Food Retreat Center. Having worked with multiple firms in the DC area during school including Wiebenson and Dorman (Summer of 2004 and 2005), he has come full circle and is glad to be back in a small, local, and ‘truly green’ firm.
Jim McDougal
Since coming to Washington DC for the first time in 2001, Jim has been with the firm un-contiguously since 2003. After a stint in Atlanta he has returned to DC. He has experience in a variety of project types; residential, commercial, office, mixed-use (including residential, office and retail) and urban design. Jim is a licensed architect and earned a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Auburn University in 2001.
Gisela Marquez
Gisela is the latest addition to Wiebenson & Dorman. Originally from Caguas, Puerto Rico, she received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She obtained her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Maryland with her thesis project: mending a whisper: Adaptive Reuse of a 19th Century Sugar Refinery in Puerto Rico.
