Casey Carlton
Casey thinks our built environment can take better care of us. Good design, to him, means whole-person design, considering brain health and belonging as much as physical experience and operations. Technical acumen and decades of wide-ranging and complex healthcare project delivery have shaped his insights, but the emotional core of his ambition is more personal. When Casey’s middle son had significant mental health challenges as a child, he spent time in facilities that showed Casey just how disconnected our buildings can be from their mission. “I had to help make a change,” he says. “And I’m a healthcare architect. I can. So, I will.”
Casey grew up in Wink, Texas—“Wink and you’ll miss it,”—and El Paso, where he met his high school sweetheart, now his wife and mother of his four children. He loved construction before he loved architecture, framing houses for a contractor in high school, and he’s still hands-on in his free time today, woodworking and fishing.
