Kevin Schweizer

Architect

Kevin Schweizer grew up with a commitment to architecture and design. His father, Nils Schweizer studied organic architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, and had a large Architectural firm in the Winter Park/Orlando area.

Kevin began his professional career interning in the summer of 1980 with his father's firm SCHWEIZER INCORPORATED. Kevin and Nils Schweizer worked together throughout Kevin's undergraduate studies at The University of Florida and again after graduate school at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, for four years until Nils' death in 1988. Kevin, his brother Garth, (a landscape architect) and his sister Tamara, (an interior designer) formed Integrated Design Group. Scott Waldroff later joined Kevin to form SCHWEIZER WALDROFF ARCHITECTS INC and they relocated their offices to New Smyrna Beach, FL

His father's experience as an architect, visionary and community leader, continues to have a great impact on Kevin's work. Other influences include Paolo Soleri, Louis Kahn, and Bruce Goff as well as God's natural creative brush in the sea and on land.

Kevin is the author of "The Ocean Resource Center" (copyright 1984) a floating research and recreation facility using OTEC, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, as the power source to sustain and build the project. Kevin is the recipient of the Henry Adams Award for his thesis work. Kevin's work has been featured in the Orlando Sentinel, New Smyrna Beach News Journal, as well as Orlando Metro Home Magazine, and Home Digest Magazine. His own home in New Smyrna Beach was displayed on the 1994 Images Tour of Homes.

Kevin's work with SCHWEIZER WALDROFF ARCHITECTS inc. involves programming, concept development and design, as well as detailing, construction administration and marketing. Throughout his career, Kevin's passion to serve his clients and draw from the God given assets of a site while integrating active and passive sustainable systems into his work, has produced a variety unique of architectural solutions. Kevin has designed numerous religious, commercial and residential projects throughout Central Florida.

Some of Kevin's previous and current community services include Sanford Beautification Committee Chairman (1985), Sunday school teacher, Lay Eucharistic Minister and Vestry member of St. Peter the Fisherman in New Smyrna Beach, Kairos Prison Ministry volunteer, VIP (Volunteer In Public schools) as Youth Motivator and Outdoor Classroom Coordinator for Coronado Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, Cochairman of Smyrna Surfari Club (2007) Chairman of the Women's Care Center in New Smyrna Beach (2008) as well as a volunteer with Missionary Ventures International, and a member of Florida Green Building Coalition, and Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.

Kevin is married to Melissa Lee Schweizer and they have four children; Nils, Abaco, Autumn and Noah. Kevin and his family enjoy sailing, surfing and skin diving. They live at "Homeport" in Bethune Beach and attend St. Peter the Fisherman Church in New Smyrna Beach.