September 4, 2025

Gregory Alan Beecher passed away peacefully on Aug. 4, 2025. Greg was born on Jan. 24, 1958, in Ogden, Utah, to Marilyn Frances (Horspool) and Robert Orman Beecher

Set on the north end of the Utah State Capitol campus, the North Capitol Building represents the final major component of the Capitol master plan, replacing the mid-century State Office Building with a facility that matches the scale, materiality and dignity of Richard K.A. Kletting’s original design.

For nearly 40 years, the Utah Historical Society’s library and artifact collections were displayed and stored in what can only be called an utterly inadequate location — the Rio Grande Railroad Depot.

Architectural firms frequently buy or absorb other firms, but a true merger is something special. Architectural Nexus (Arch Nexus) was formed in 2003 when Jensen Haslem Architects and Thomas Peterson Hammond Architects decided that they no longer wanted to compete against each other, but to form a new entity using their compatible operational systems and corporate values to pursue larger, more complex projects.

Richard K.A. Kletting, an architect, has a name synonymous with several well-known buildings, including the Utah State Capitol.

Dear Architect is a work in progress. The advice column was the brainchild of a leadership conference. The “architect” is actually a committee of professionals who vet the questions and contribute to the answers. They are technical and non-technical people at various stages of their careers.

Jonathan Garnett, Randy Deutsch, FAIA, LEED AP, and Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA, LEED AP

Architecture is fundamentally a collaborative profession, and AIA provides the most impactful platform for that collaboration.

Reflexion is the journal of the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. It is a quarterly publication, and I have had the honor of working with the staff and The newsLINK Group to edit it since joining the board in 2021.