Dan Causier, Assoc. AIA

Dan Causier

As an Associate at Kahler Slater, Dan Causier plays a galvanizing role in collaborative efforts bringing together architecture, interiors, environmental branding, marketing, and strategic planning.

Dan strives for clarity and simplicity, believing the best architecture to be atmospheric and elegant. Recognized for his expertise as a versatile designer, Dan has played a lead role in several multi-family and hospitality projects in his emerging career, with extensive experience across the Midwest. Dan is a key contributor to Kahler Slater’s design community as well, including serving as a curator for Kahler Slater Design Week.

With a passion for representation and storytelling, Dan is known for his talents as a writer, lecturer, and critic, and for his skillful engagement with clients. In a previous life, he was an English major and reported on-air for 89.7 WUWM. As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), Dan traveled in Scandinavia; won top awards at SuperJury; received the Benn-Johnck Award from AIA Chicago; and studied with Andrew Zago and Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX.

As an educator, Dan is a consensus-builder who creates space for an equitable and accessible discourse. He has previously taught undergraduate design studios and is an active, enthusiastic member of the academic community at UWM. Coming from a non-traditional career path, Dan especially enjoys working with students with diverse worldviews. With an affinity for the experimental, he is known to encourage students to ‘get weird’.

Dan is an Adjunct Professor in the Kahler Slater studio the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.