KennethSmall.com
Hello,
I am Kenneth
Charles Small Jr. of Las Vegas Nevada. A
few years ago a friend made a website with his name and told me about it.
So I decided to do the same.
I was born in
the Bronx, New York in 1957 and moved around with my parents in the New York
vicinity as a child. My parents were
Kenneth Small (Senior) and Margaret Jean Small.
My dad was from Tulsa OK. My mom was
raised in Bay City Mchigan. My parents
remained married until my mother’s death in Connecticut during 1987. I have one sister, Maureen Margaret Ricthie,
who is living near Dallas Texas. She
recently passed a 2 year course to qualify as a teaching assistant!
I attended
elementary schools in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. I graduated from Stamford High School in
Connecticut in 1976. In the fall of 1976
I enrolled in the Texas Tech University Architecture Program. Five years later, in 1981, I graduated with a
5 year degree in architecture from Texas Tech U. Since college I have had lots of post
graduate training. The providers were
typically CEFPI, AIA and CSI.
In 1985 I
became a licensed architect and had my own practice in Austin Texas. In 1989 held a position in El Paso for a 1
year contract. At the end of that year
President Bush (Sr.) announced NAFTA.
Construction in El Paso ended temporarily and I moved to Las Vegas. Upon starting out in Vegas I worked for 3
architectural firms who each claimed to be the largest in Las Vegas. During 1996 I bought the house that I now
live in. When I started my practice here
I began practicing under the assumed name of “ABKS – Architecture By Ken
Small”. www.abksarchitecture.com That practice has continued while I have had
ownerships in many businesses and continues to be in the phone book today. In 2005 I purchased full ownership in
“Sandberg & Small Architecture, LLC” and sold my interest in a construction
company here in Vegas. That year I also
started SSA Architecture, Small Studio Associates, LLC. www.smallstudioassociates.com
That company continues on where I have ‘officed’
since 2000 at 4630 South Arville, Las Vegas.
SSA Architecture
is a general practice of architecture.
This one big accomplishment project was Jacob E. Manch Elementary
School. I worked on my first school
project in 1981 and later did multiple projects under another architect in
Austin from 1982 to 87. Upon living in
Vegas I did considerable work on CCSD schools while working as an employee of
another firm. Upon the establishment of
“Sandberg & Small Architecture, LLC” I was again reintroduced to doing CCSD
school buildings. Alan Wendelboe
(deceased) who is a Sr. VP with SSA and I designed the first completely
daylighted school building to be built on a CCSD campus in this decade (and
likely the prior one too.) That
classroom building was at John S. Park Elementary School. We won the annual CEFPI Southwest Region
"Monarch Award” for our design of the buildings that we added to that
campus in 2003. In 2004 we achieved
another CEFPI award.
Who is the
other Kenneth Small?
Pictured here
is Kenneth Charles Small III. We call
him “KC” Small. He was born in June 2019
and is the new leader of our team. His
plan is obviously to take over the planet starting with the living room remote
controller.