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KSQ Design
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KSQ Architects, PC
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ksq.design
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Private
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1988
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KSQ Design (legal entity KSQ Architects, PC) is a privately held, integrated architecture firm founded in 1988 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and operating nationally through three studios in Tulsa, New York (opened 2004), and Lafayette, Louisiana. The firm provides end-to-end design services — master planning, programming, architecture, and interior design — for institutional and private clients, with concentrated specialization in higher-education student housing and Greek Life facilities (30+ fraternity and sorority chapter houses), supplemented by K-12 schools, mixed-use and multi-family residential, healthcare, commercial, and sports/recreation projects.

The firm's underlying capability is human-centric, integrated design supported by VR and 3D visualization for pre-construction client review and by a proprietary methodology for optimizing IRS educational tax credits in Greek Life facilities. KSQ differentiates through deep domain knowledge accumulated over 37 years, a leadership team of managing principals with decades of experience, and a portfolio of award-winning projects across multiple AIA chapters, DBIA, ENR, and ABC. Notable engagements include 1.4 million+ SF of student housing at Texas Christian University, a $137.5M Kingston City School District capital plan, and a $180M+ Tulsa affordable-housing initiative.

KSQ operates as a project-based professional services firm. Revenue is generated through design fees on new construction, renovation, and master planning engagements, secured via direct enterprise relationships with university presidents, school superintendents, and developers; competitive RFP and public bidding for public-sector work; and private developer commissions. The firm is owned by its managing principals with no disclosed external investment, and its distribution model is direct enterprise field sales supported by content marketing (project portfolios, Insights blog, industry awards) rather than digital demand generation.

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KSQ Design is a 37-year-old, privately held national architecture firm specializing in higher-education student housing and Greek Life facilities, with complementary practices in K-12 schools, mixed-use residential, healthcare, and sports/recreation, operating from studios in Tulsa, New York, and Lafayette.

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Operating
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101–250
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HeadquartersNew York, United States
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New York
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United States
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North America
Markets served

Serves global market

Offices3 records

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City, Country, Type, Description, Source

Keyword5 values
architecture design services, higher education design, student housing design, Greek life architecture, K-12 school design
Industry4 codes
1Architectural Design Services
CodeBPAHAKAAPrimaryYes
2Interior Design Services
CodeBPAHAKABPrimaryNo
3Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services
CodeBPAHAKAKPrimaryNo
4Residential Design-Build & Renovation-Integrated Builders
CodeIMAFABAEPrimaryNo
NAICS code4 codes
  • Architectural Services541310
  • Architectural Services54131
  • Interior Design Services54141
  • Interior Design Services541410
SIC code2 codes
  • Services-Engineering Services8711
  • General Bldg Contractors - Nonresidential Bldgs1540
Product category
Architecture Services
GTM motion1 record

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Type, Description, Source

Revenue model1 record
1Architecture and Design Services
TypeProfessional Services
Description

Professional architecture services including programming, planning, architecture, and interior design for institutional clients. Revenue is project-based, generated through design fees for new construction, renovation, and master planning engagements.

ksq.design
Marketing channels5 records

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Distribution channels3 records

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
GTM typeB2B
B2B
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Services
Core offering1 text field

KSQ Design is a privately held architecture firm founded in 1988 that provides integrated architectural design services—including programming, planning, architecture, and interior design—for institutional and private-sector clients. The firm specializes in projects across higher education, K-12 education, mixed-use residential, healthcare, sports and recreation, and Greek Life (fraternity and sorority) housing sectors.

Differentiator
Functional benefit
Problem solved
Quantifiable outcome1 of 3 values shown
  • TCU's student housing master plan resulted in 15.3% increase in student retention
+2 more records
Product overview1 text field

KSQ Design is a national architecture firm offering comprehensive design services across multiple market sectors. The firm operates as a single integrated practice organized around key service areas: Higher Education Design (student housing, dining halls, residence halls, libraries), K-12 Education Design (schools, STEAM labs, dining facilities), Mixed-Use & Multi-Family Residential (luxury apartments, graduate housing), Commercial Architecture (adaptive reuse, office), Healthcare Design (hospitals, medical offices), Sports/Recreation/Entertainment Design (aquatic centers, theatres, athletic facilities), and Greek Housing & Residential Design (fraternity and sorority chapter houses). The firm provides end-to-end services from master planning through architecture and interior design.

Product and service2 records
1Higher Education Architecture
CategoryArchitecture
Description

Programming, planning, architecture, and interior design services for colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions, covering new construction, renovation, and master planning of academic, administrative, and student-life facilities.

2K-12 School Design
Scale indicator10 records

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Recent move8 records

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Expansion highlight4 records

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Peers10 records
1Legat Architects
TypeDirect peer
Description

Mid-sized architecture firm with strong higher education and K-12 portfolios, including student housing and dining facilities. Like KSQ, it operates across multiple U.S. regions and pursues integrated design services for institutional clients.

2EwingCole
TypeDirect peer
Description

National architecture firm with substantial higher education and healthcare practices, including student life and residence hall work. Comparable in studio size and institutional client base to KSQ.

3Shepley Bulfinch
TypeDirect peer
Description

Architecture and planning firm specializing in higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions with student housing expertise. Closely comparable institutional focus and project-type portfolio to KSQ.

4Perkins Eastman
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Large national architecture firm with extensive higher education, K-12, and mixed-use practices. Led by Armand Quadrini's former employer; broader geographic and typological reach than KSQ.

5EYP Architecture & Engineering
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Major higher education and healthcare architecture firm with deep student housing portfolio. David Short's former employer; significantly larger scale and integrated engineering capabilities than KSQ.

6Quinn Evans Architects
TypeDirect peer
Description

Mid-sized architecture firm with strong higher education, K-12, and adaptive reuse practices. Comparable institutional client base and presence in multiple U.S. regional markets.

7RDG Planning & Design
TypeDirect peer
Description

Multi-disciplinary design firm with significant higher education student housing and dining hall portfolio. Closely comparable specialty in student life architecture and similar multi-office footprint.

8CannonDesign
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

Large integrated design practice with substantial higher education and healthcare architecture segments. Broader scale and service offerings than KSQ but overlapping in student housing and institutional markets.

9Sasaki Associates
TypeRegional player
Description

Planning, urban design, and architecture firm with higher education and campus master planning expertise. Comparable in delivering campus-scale projects but with a planning-led, non-overlapping regional lens.

10LEO A DALY
TypeBroad incumbent
Description

National architecture and engineering firm with higher education, K-12, healthcare, and mixed-use practices. Larger scale than KSQ but operates in the same institutional client market segments.

Market position
Strengths5 records

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Weaknesses5 records

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Competitive moat5 records

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Key highlights7 records

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Named customers12 records

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Segment6 records

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Ideal customer profile1 record

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KSQ Design

Architecture Servicesksq.design

KSQ Design is a 37-year-old, privately held national architecture firm specializing in higher-education student housing and Greek Life facilities, with complementary practices in K-12 schools, mixed-use residential, healthcare, and sports/recreation, operating from studios in Tulsa, New York, and Lafayette.

What KSQ Design does

KSQ Design (legal entity KSQ Architects, PC) is a privately held, integrated architecture firm founded in 1988 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and operating nationally through three studios in Tulsa, New York (opened 2004), and Lafayette, Louisiana. The firm provides end-to-end design services — master planning, programming, architecture, and interior design — for institutional and private clients, with concentrated specialization in higher-education student housing and Greek Life facilities (30+ fraternity and sorority chapter houses), supplemented by K-12 schools, mixed-use and multi-family residential, healthcare, commercial, and sports/recreation projects.

The firm's underlying capability is human-centric, integrated design supported by VR and 3D visualization for pre-construction client review and by a proprietary methodology for optimizing IRS educational tax credits in Greek Life facilities. KSQ differentiates through deep domain knowledge accumulated over 37 years, a leadership team of managing principals with decades of experience, and a portfolio of award-winning projects across multiple AIA chapters, DBIA, ENR, and ABC. Notable engagements include 1.4 million+ SF of student housing at Texas Christian University, a $137.5M Kingston City School District capital plan, and a $180M+ Tulsa affordable-housing initiative.

KSQ operates as a project-based professional services firm. Revenue is generated through design fees on new construction, renovation, and master planning engagements, secured via direct enterprise relationships with university presidents, school superintendents, and developers; competitive RFP and public bidding for public-sector work; and private developer commissions. The firm is owned by its managing principals with no disclosed external investment, and its distribution model is direct enterprise field sales supported by content marketing (project portfolios, Insights blog, industry awards) rather than digital demand generation.

KSQ Design firmographics

Firmographics
Name
KSQ Design
Legal name
KSQ Architects, PC
Website
https://ksq.design
Company type
Private
Founded year
1988
Operating status
Operating
Headcount range
101–250 employees
Short description
KSQ Design is a 37-year-old, privately held national architecture firm specializing in higher-education student housing and Greek Life facilities, with complementary practices in K-12 schools, mixed-use residential, healthcare, and sports/recreation, operating from studios in Tulsa, New York, and Lafayette.
Ownership category
akta.pro rank

KSQ Design industry classification

Industry
Product category
Architecture Services
NAICS
Architectural Services (541310), Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141), Interior Design Services (541410)
SIC
Services-Engineering Services (8711), General Bldg Contractors - Nonresidential Bldgs (1540)
akta.pro primary industry
Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)
akta.pro secondary industries
Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB), Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services (BPAHAKAK), Residential Design-Build & Renovation-Integrated Builders (IMAFABAE)

Keywords

  • Architecture design services
  • Higher education design
  • Student housing design
  • Greek life architecture
  • K-12 school design

Where KSQ Design is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city
New York
HQ country
United States
HQ region
North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

KSQ Design business model

Business model
GTM type
B2B
Offering type
Services
Cost components
Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

  1. Architecture and Design Services: Professional architecture services including programming, planning, architecture, and interior design for institutional clients. Revenue is project-based, generated through design fees for new construction, renovation, and master planning engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

KSQ Design product offering

Product offering

Core offering

KSQ Design is a privately held architecture firm founded in 1988 that provides integrated architectural design services—including programming, planning, architecture, and interior design—for institutional and private-sector clients. The firm specializes in projects across higher education, K-12 education, mixed-use residential, healthcare, sports and recreation, and Greek Life (fraternity and sorority) housing sectors.

Product overview

KSQ Design is a national architecture firm offering comprehensive design services across multiple market sectors. The firm operates as a single integrated practice organized around key service areas: Higher Education Design (student housing, dining halls, residence halls, libraries), K-12 Education Design (schools, STEAM labs, dining facilities), Mixed-Use & Multi-Family Residential (luxury apartments, graduate housing), Commercial Architecture (adaptive reuse, office), Healthcare Design (hospitals, medical offices), Sports/Recreation/Entertainment Design (aquatic centers, theatres, athletic facilities), and Greek Housing & Residential Design (fraternity and sorority chapter houses). The firm provides end-to-end services from master planning through architecture and interior design.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

  • Higher Education Architecture Programming, planning, architecture, and interior design services for colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions, covering new construction, renovation, and master planning of academic, administrative, and student-life facilities.
  • K-12 School Design

Quantifiable outcome

  • TCU's student housing master plan resulted in 15.3% increase in student retention
  • +2 more outcomes

Companies that use KSQ Design

Customer profile

Named customers12 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

KSQ Design technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API
No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

KSQ Design partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

KSQ Design competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

  • Legat Architects: Mid-sized architecture firm with strong higher education and K-12 portfolios, including student housing and dining facilities. Like KSQ, it operates across multiple U.S. regions and pursues integrated design services for institutional clients.
  • EwingCole: National architecture firm with substantial higher education and healthcare practices, including student life and residence hall work. Comparable in studio size and institutional client base to KSQ.
  • Shepley Bulfinch: Architecture and planning firm specializing in higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions with student housing expertise. Closely comparable institutional focus and project-type portfolio to KSQ.
  • Quinn Evans Architects: Mid-sized architecture firm with strong higher education, K-12, and adaptive reuse practices. Comparable institutional client base and presence in multiple U.S. regional markets.
  • RDG Planning & Design: Multi-disciplinary design firm with significant higher education student housing and dining hall portfolio. Closely comparable specialty in student life architecture and similar multi-office footprint.

Broad incumbents

  • Perkins Eastman: Large national architecture firm with extensive higher education, K-12, and mixed-use practices. Led by Armand Quadrini's former employer; broader geographic and typological reach than KSQ.
  • EYP Architecture & Engineering: Major higher education and healthcare architecture firm with deep student housing portfolio. David Short's former employer; significantly larger scale and integrated engineering capabilities than KSQ.
  • CannonDesign: Large integrated design practice with substantial higher education and healthcare architecture segments. Broader scale and service offerings than KSQ but overlapping in student housing and institutional markets.
  • LEO A DALY: National architecture and engineering firm with higher education, K-12, healthcare, and mixed-use practices. Larger scale than KSQ but operates in the same institutional client market segments.

Regional players

  • Sasaki Associates: Planning, urban design, and architecture firm with higher education and campus master planning expertise. Comparable in delivering campus-scale projects but with a planning-led, non-overlapping regional lens.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

KSQ Design social profiles

Digital presence

KSQ Design financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

KSQ Design leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

KSQ Design funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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KSQ Design M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

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Frequently asked questions about KSQ Design

What does KSQ Design do?

KSQ Design is a privately held architecture firm founded in 1988 that provides integrated architectural design services—including programming, planning, architecture, and interior design—for institutional and private-sector clients. The firm specializes in projects across higher education, K-12 education, mixed-use residential, healthcare, sports and recreation, and Greek Life (fraternity and sorority) housing sectors.

Is KSQ Design a public or private company?

KSQ Design is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was KSQ Design founded?

KSQ Design was founded in 1988. It employs 101 to 250 people.

Where is KSQ Design based?

KSQ Design is headquartered in New York, United States, in the North America region.

How does KSQ Design make money?

One revenue line is on record: architecture and Design Services.

Who are KSQ Design's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are Legat Architects, EwingCole, Shepley Bulfinch, Quinn Evans Architects and RDG Planning & Design. Broad incumbents are Perkins Eastman, EYP Architecture & Engineering, CannonDesign and LEO A DALY. Sasaki Associates is listed as a regional player.

Does KSQ Design have an API?

No public API is recorded for KSQ Design.

What industry is KSQ Design in?

KSQ Design's product category is Architecture Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAHAKAA, Architectural Design Services, with a secondary code of BPAHAKAB, Interior Design Services. Its NAICS code is 541310 and its SIC code is 8711.

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