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Collaboration

"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds."

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor (1847-1922)

Art Hupp

Art Hupp Art is a principal and the Market Leader for the Cultural Arts and Higher Education Studio. He is a graduate of Ohio State University.

Art is an active member of the West Chester (Ohio) Rotary.

Among the projects on which Art has been the principal in charge are the Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center and Varsity Village at the University of Cincinnati.

Art is presently continuing his work with the Cincinnati Museum Center in establishing a Historic Restoration and Renovation Plan for the 500,000 sf National Historic Landmark Cincinnati Union Terminal (with HIllier). He is also glaserworks' Project Principal for the University of Virginia's South Lawn Project. Supporting Moore Ruble Yudell in the design of the College of Arts and Sciences for the Thomas Jefferson designed campus and current World Heritage Site.

Art is a LEED 2.1 Accredited Professional.

Paul Duffy

Paul Duffy Paul Duffy is a principal and the chief information technology officer for the firm. He is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio).

In his spare time Paul works on his house, walks his two dogs, and builds computers.

Among Paul's recent projects are Fairview Bilingual School (in Clifton), The Harold C. Schott Education Center ( a LEED-compliant) building, and the Zoo Animal Hospital. Paul was project architect for the Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center (SLC) at the University of Cincinnati. SLC has received LEED certification. The project has won local, state and national awards. It has been published in Architectural Record (August 2005, pp. 118-123).

Paul is a LEED 2.1 Accredited Professional.

Jeff Raser

Jeff is a principal and the Market Leader for the Mixed Use Studio. Jeff is responsible for promoting the vision of urbanist, mixed-use projects in the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana region. He has studied old and new neighborhoods and mixed use buildings from regional planning to sidewalk details. Jeff is a passionate advocate of compact pedestrian oriented design and the efficient, wise use of land. He is an expert at designing context sensitive buildings – in form, rhythm, proportion and scale - and the thoughtful placement of those buildings to achieve great placemaking.

Jeff Raser

He is a registered architect with over 20 years of experience working on a wide variety of projects including multiple and single family housing, restaurants, retail, office, adaptive reuse, historic restoration, and street design. He has worked as a general contractor, a real estate developer, and owns investment property.

He is a member of several organizations representing different concerns of real estate development including the Congress for a New Urbanism, the Urban Land Institute, The Smart Growth Coalition, and the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati. He recognizes the common ground between these sometimes disparate organizations.

An avid urbanite, Jeff sits on Cincinnati’s Historic Conservation Board and aids concerned citizens, business owners, and developers in the redevelopment of several urban neighborhoods. Jeff has held board seats for numerous non-profit organizations including the Walnut Hills Area Council, and as the secretary and one of the framers of Cincinnati’s Empowerment Zone.

His wife walks their three children to public school each day, along some of Cincinnati’s most walkable streets.

Mike Moose

Mike is a principal, the design leader for the office and chief designer for Studio 3. Mike is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and Yale University. He is president of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati. Among the Foundation's current projects are funding the Architecture by Children Program, the Apple Award Gala, and the publication (Fall 2006) of a history of the architecture of Cincinnati.

Michael Moose

Among Mike's interest are photography and genealogy.

During his time at glaserworks, the firm has won more than thirty design awards. Among the projects on which Mike served as principal designer are the U.C. Baseball Stadium, Fairview Clifton and Cheviot elementary schools, Findlay Market (a National Register Building), the 1993 renovation of the painting galleries at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Playhouse in the Park, and the Springfield Art Museum.

Mike has been working to build the case for using a streetcar system and tram to stimulate development in the downtown so that Cincinnati may become a more cosmopolitan and pedestrian city.

Michael Maltinsky

Michael Maltinsky

Michael is a principal and the firm's construction administrator par excellence. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati.

His most recent, and challenging, project was the coordination of the MainStreet project at the University of Cincinnati. Mainstreet, designed by Hargreaves Associates (Boston), is the public way that interconnects the Student LIfe Center (MRY), the Recreation Center (mOrphosis) and the Tangeman University Center (Gwathemy-Siegel).