Our back-to-the-future thinking borrows the best ideas from well-loved places and translates them into integrated designs that anticipate both modern living and timeless human dynamics.
Environments with an intentional mix of uses and spaces consistently excel in the formation of creative culture and economic prosperity. Our work carefully curates uses and programs, weaving them into robust, exciting, and beautiful places. People love to interact with each other in meaningful ways, and our programming and designs anticipate and facilitate a wide variety of social connections.
Thought Leaders
I always appreciate when an architect speaks the language of the product that it’s trying to sell, and when they understand the importance of that product as historical, tasteful, aged. All those characteristics are there in the architecture.
Paola Calzada, Texas Architect Magazine
We get to know them, know their culture, know what is important to them,” he said. “We are trying to be very sensitive and sympathetic in our approach which is an outgrowth of our process, which is based upon an inspired inquiry to listen and work together in a collaborative environment and then to do a project that has the power to be transformational.
Timothy B. Blonkvist, San Antonio Report
Learner / Strategic / Achiever / Maximizer / Self-Assurance
Tim Blonkvist, Founding Principal and Chairman of the Board, is legendary for the energy and passion he brings to his projects and client relationships. He has worked on award-winning, sustainable projects from single-family homes to the design of new cities around the world. Tim believes that architecture is the physical embodiment of the people who inhabit a place. He has learned over the years that the individual building is less important than how buildings as a group work together to create outdoor rooms for people to enjoy and understand the larger context. It is with this approach that his work throughout the US, Europe, China, India, and Saudi Arabia pushes beyond the limits of their geographical location toward contemporary sustainable solutions.
Tim is an extraordinary creative force whose work synthesizes art, architecture, and the use of natural light. He finds inspiration and restoration in art, spending several weeks each summer painting in Italy as well as painting into the wee hours of the morning every week with a group of local artists. While art and architecture are intimately related within Tim’s work, it is their differences that are so critical for his creative life. While architecture is a long, detail-oriented process involving hundreds of people, art is an individual creative act that is realized in a very short period of time. The immediate satisfaction he gains creating his personal art provides energy and sustains his passion needed to bring larger, more complex architectural projects to life for his clients. The measure of success is not found in the number of awards won but rather in the fulfillment of his clients’ dreams being realized and their excitement in seeing their ideas incorporated into their project.
Overland’s critical role was creating a vision to kindle a conversation as to how to reimagine Hemisfair.
Andres Andujar, CEO of Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment Corporation
Connectedness / Futuristic / Strategic / Ideation / Belief
As principal, Madison Smith is responsible for directing Overland’s master planning services. Madison brings a long-term approach to both his thinking on projects and the relationships he establishes. The hallmark of his work is his sensitive consideration for people’s experience in the built environment. In addition to his design work, Madison also leads activities in strategic planning, feasibility analysis, and finance.
Madison applies his development perspective to a wide range of architectural and master planning assignments. He has been consistently involved in the firm’s large-acreage, multiphased projects and in commercial real estate development.
Let’s mix it up!