Billy Askey
Billy Askey AIA, LEED AP
Principal | Co-founder
Billy generates creative design solutions in dynamic cultural, social and economic frameworks with his compassion for the human condition and optimism for the ways in which architecture can contribute to it. With fifteen years of experience, including several years in DC and NYC, his approach to architecture has inspired project teams to design and execute projects of superior quality regardless of scale, complexity and typology. In all his work, Billy balances composition, poetry and pragmatism by amplifying design excellence with technical innovation.
Billy’s success is characterized by a variety of professional accolades. As an Associate at Perkins+Will (formerly the Freelon Group), Billy was selected as one of the global firm’s inaugural Emerging Designers and recognized for his production of the best technical drawing set in the practice in 2016. In addition, his projects have been recognized with numerous AIA design awards. In 2019, he received the AIA North Carolina Young Architect Award.
A North Carolina native and graduate of North Carolina State University, Billy is an exceptional scholar, teacher and mentor. He contributes to the Triangle Area’s robust design community as a Professor of the Practice at North Carolina State University, an invited critic at various universities, a member of the Park Scholarship Regional Selection Committee and as a mentor in the AIA Triangle Young Architects Forum Mentor Program. In 2018, he directed the NC State School of Architecture’s award-winning exhibit at the European Cultural Centre’s “Time Space Existence,” a collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.
Select Projects
Route 9 Library + Innovation Center
Northwest Library
MLK, Jr. Recreation + Aquatic Center
Auburn Avenue Research Library
Death in the White City
