Clark Nexsen is an award-winning firm with deep roots in Virginia, but a reputation for excellence that is known worldwide. Clark Nexsen projects have served clients in nearly every state and 41 countries. The firm provides architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, civil engineering, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, fire protection engineering, as well as planning services.

Clark Nexsen was founded in 1920 by Pendleton S. Clark, FAIA, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Clark’s growing reputation for professionalism with institutional projects across central Virginia carried the firm successfully through the Depression and World War II. In 1948, the Lynchburg firm accepted two new partners, Walter R. Nexsen, AIA and John D. Owen, AIA. Clark also formed a partnership in 1949 with Navy Civil engineering Corps Admiral Victor D. Buhr, P.E., and Norfolk engineer Myron Sturgeon. This new Norfolk design office focused primarily on government clients.

After 1950, the Lynchburg office concentrated on service to private and institutional clients for over 30 years, while the Norfolk office concentrated on serving government clients. In 1980, Clark Nexsen made a major commitment to overseas work, opening an office in Madrid, Spain to serve the U.S. Department of Defense in the Mediterranean region. During the nine years the office was open, projects were completed on every DoD base in Spain, Italy and Greece.

Today, Clark Nexsen is one of the oldest and largest full-service design firms in Virginia, with branch offices in Roanoke and Richmond, Virginia, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Macon, and Brunswick, Georgia, and Austin, Texas. The firm’s long record of success derives from the expertise and professionalism of its staff, which now totals nearly 500 people, up from 40 in 1992. Clark Nexsen professionals are adept at providing complex needs in an ever-changing business world and technical environment. Beyond expertise and dedication, Clark Nexsen strives to serve clients’ needs with the hands-on development of innovative and creative solutions.