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Brent Bowman has long played an active role in fostering educational excellence through generous gifts of time, counsel and other contributions in support of the endeavors of the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University.

A 1972 recipient of the Bachelor of Architecture from K-State, Bowman began his professional career in Phoenix. In 1977, he returned to Manhattan and founded Brent Bowman and Associates Architects, PA, where he is managing principal and director of design. As lead designer, Bowman directs the work of the design team from schematic design through project completion. With over 29 years of experience in renovation/preservation planning and the design of new facilities, Bowman=s guiding philosophy is to design buildings that are appropriate to their place.

Bowman is well known throughout the Manhattan area for his work on many recent civic projects, including the improvement of Manhattan City Hall, the expansion of the Manhattan Public Library, and the design of the Manhattan Regional Airport terminal. He has also played a key role in the development of many facilities on the K-State campus, serving as principal-in-charge in a collaboration with HOK Sport of Kansas City on the expansion of the KSU Football Stadium and with Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Inc. of Chicago on the Hale Library Addition/Farrell Library Renovation.

The work of Brent Bowman and Associates in restoring and adaptively reusing historic Holton Hall on the K-State campus as a student services center and in the comprehensive renovation and expansion of the library earned several awards for design excellence from the American Institute of Architects. In addition to honors for individual buildings, the editors of Building Stone Magazine profiled Bowman in their 1995 short list of the "A Best and Brightest American Architects." Bowman maintains membership in the American Institute of Architects, is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, maintains licensure in five states, and also serves as an adjunct professor of architecture at K-State.

Most recently, Bowman established the Bowman Architectural Forum, an annual competition for third-year architecture students at K-State to acknowledge this critical juncture in their architectural education. The Forum, which brings to campus outstanding practitioners to review, discuss and honor student work, also rewards the substantial achievement of outstanding third-year students, as well as informs and challenges them to seek even greater success in their architectural design work.

Brent Bowman's contributions exemplify the strong tradition of partnership between the K-State Department of Architecture and the professional architectural community, an alliance which has advanced the discipline and contributed to the vitality of all who have shared in its bounties.

We are privileged to count Brent Bowman among the alumni of our College of Architecture, Planning, and Design, and we are proud to nominate him to receive a Kansas State University Distinguished Service Award.