Nnadozie Okeke, B. Arch 2001

Professional Title: Principal, Senior Project Manager

Place of Work: Davis Brody Bond/Page

Nnadozie (“Nana”) Okeke is a Principal at David Brody Bond/Page. He joined the firm from Garrison McNeil & Associates following the successful collaboration of the two firms on the Harlem Children’s Zone. This community center includes a charter school and child-care facilities for at-risk youth. The facility integrates educational, recreational, and social service spaces to strengthen community involvement and interaction. Mr. Okeke also previously worked for the internationally renowned architect David Adjaye. Mr. Okeke’s work at Adjaye Associates focused on public works in Accra, Ghana, where he spent a couple of years developing the Marine Drive and Ghana Trade Fair master planning projects.

Since joining Davis Brody Bond/Page, Mr. Okeke has helped lead the development of numerous educational, cultural, and community buildings, including the Muntu Performing Arts Center and the John C. Daniels and King/Robinson Magnet Schools in New Haven, Connecticut. He served as Project Architect for The Eagle Academy for Young Men, an all-boys public school in the Bronx.  More recently, Nana brought his extensive expertise in the design and construction of academic facilities to New York University’s 181 Mercer project, a new 735,000 sf, mixed-use facility providing new facilities for several departments ranging from athletics, performing arts, and academic classrooms to university housing for students and faculty.

Favorite Memory of Time at CCNY:

I have very fond memories of Shepard Hall, the inspiring neo-gothic former home of the Architecture School. There we had fantastic studio sessions with the likes of Professors Gary McNeil and Alan Feigenberg. I remember turn of the century architectural history discussions with Prof. Twombly.

I recall the camaraderie shared between the diverse Student Body, and and the hunger we all had to study Architecture.