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Better Together: DLR Group | Collins Cooper Carusi

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When a global design leader joins forces with a trusted Southeast regional expert, education clients gain something rare: broader vision, expanded services, and deeper local insight. In August 2025, Atlanta-based Collins Cooper Carusi Architects joined DLR Group, beginning such a partnership. Read the news announcement here.

Who We Are

Our combined integrated design team brings decades of experience in student learning and living environments. In the Southeast United States, our cultural understanding, community relationships, and regional design acumen are now augmented by in-house engineering, high-performance design, acoustics, lighting design, and branding expertise. Nationally, clients will benefit from a larger team of professionals designing award-winning educational spaces. Connect with our team to learn more.

Our Combined Portfolio

As learning evolves, school districts and higher education institutions leverage our R&D studio, proprietary BOLD program, and award-winning laboratory planning team for integrated design that builds resilient learning communities.

Our Combined Portfolio

K-12 Education

Early Education & Elementary School

Educational environments for our youngest learners should spark curiosity, nurture development, and inspire a lifelong commitment to continual learning. DLR Group and Collins Cooper Carusi share an understanding for how scale and immersive design can create imaginative learning experiences for young minds. Together, we design spaces that are joyful, memorable, and position our clients for a resilient, innovative future.

Have an opportunity you’d like to explore with us? Connect with Global K-12 Education Leader Carmen Wyckoff, AIA, LEED AP

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Career Prep

Career & Technical Education

Career and technical education environments bridge the gap between education and industry. Our presence in local communities across the globe, which now includes the greater Atlanta metropolitan area, strengthens our network of business partners who help develop curriculum and create programs tailormade for the future workforce. Together with our clients, we are designing environments that support high-level learning to connect real-world opportunities with life pathways.

Have an opportunity you’d like to explore with us? Connect with Global K-12 Education Leader Carmen Wyckoff, AIA, LEED AP

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Higher Education

Student Life

This is a case where one plus one equals three. DLR Group’s strong background in campus planning and design is complemented by Collins Cooper Carusi’s depth of expertise in designing student living environments. For our clients, this expanded portfolio strengthens our offerings with more experience to create places that reflect each institution’s unique culture while advancing academic and social development.

Have an opportunity you’d like to explore with us? Connect with Global Higher Education Leader Stu Rothenberger, AIA, LEED AP

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What We Do

Through architecture, engineering, interior design, planning, and many specialty services, we deliver design for our clients that’s both responsive and enduring. We provide a depth of expertise in early learning and K-12 education, higher education, on and off campus student housing, recreation centers. Beyond our education expertise, we design around the world for public and private sector clients. Across geography and project type, our work is unified by our purpose: elevate the human experience through design.