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Danny Berger

Principal, K-12 Education, Dallas

Growing up in Indiana, Danny wanted to build race cars. He’d been building things his whole life—welding, woodworking, and other hands-on projects in 4-H—before channeling this drive into architecture. Healthcare architecture, initially, but after years with hospital clients Danny made an unlikely career shift, moving out to East Texas to manage an oil lease. The detour was an education in leadership. Responsible for his own crew, he found a simple rule to be true: believe in your team, treat people like human beings, and everything else tends to work itself out.

Returning to architecture, Danny was drawn to education. Everyone passes through a school, these buildings strengthen entire communities, and the constraint of delivering high design on a school budget is the kind of practical problem Danny likes to solve. As our regional K-12 practice leader in the southwest, he’s focused on bringing out the best in his teams and shaping schools across Texas that districts will still be proud of generations down the line.

Say hello to Danny
When you look at schools that have been around for 100 years, you start to think about how many people have gone through those buildings, how many lives have been impacted by them. We can do so much good with good design.
Danny leading a student tour of a construction site, wearing a hard hat, safety vest, and safety goggles.
Danny leading a student tour
Curiosity and a Passport

Sometimes, a master’s in architecture involves two weeks rappelling down a cliffside with a 90-pound 3D scanner on your back. That was Danny’s experience, at least, traveling to Normandy through Texas A&M’s Center for Heritage Conservation to capture scans of the cliff face and the site’s World War II embattlements. While hauling the scanner across uneven rock, Danny was also racing the tide, working within narrow windows of time before the rocky beach below disappeared under 12 feet of water.

Fun Fact

If Danny’s not traveling or at a track day event testing the limits of a Ferrari or McLaren, he might be at his hobby farm with the 15 goats he’s helping his children raise.

Danny and his wife with their three children, dressed in formal attire, standing in a garden with shrubs and flowers under a blue sky.
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