Will Winkelman

Will has been a registered architect in Maine since 1989. A member of the AIA, he has been practicing architecture for more than 35 years, most of that time focused on his core passion, residential work.

Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Will graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1982. From there he moved to San Francisco before discovering Peaks Island, off the coast of Portland, in the mid-1980s. It has been his home ever since. 

Will spent two decades working in Portland offices during which time he found that working with residential clients offered the connection essential for him to feel deeply engaged. In the spring of 2007, Will established Winkelman Architecture to further that pursuit. A founding idea of the practice was to keep it small, limiting the staff count to 10 or less, to keep his hand collaboratively engaged in the design conversation and details of the office’s flow of projects.

His work is informed by both personal and professional experiences. The hands-on building of his own home on an island site with a limited budget over the course of a decade gave him a profound education, learning the consequences of “lines on paper”. It also offered a great appreciation for the builder's perspective. His 25-year-old home is now in a deep maintenance cycle, teaching that one is never done learning!

When not traveling, Will can be found keeping his hands busy in his home shop by nurturing his lifelong fascination with industrial design by tinkering on things big and small or offering a hand to his wife, Kath, with her steel sculpture.