Margaret Sprug, AIA

Principal

Margaret is a principal at Miller Hull with over 20 years of experience on a variety of civic, community and education facility projects. Since joining the firm in 2000, Margaret has built a reputation for facilitating highly complex sustainable design projects and is responsible for Miller Hull’s Living Buildings — which exceed all LEED requirements for sustainability and are required to be Net Zero energy and water. Margaret is spearheading the effort within the firm to “green our specifications” by highlighting the toxins pervasive in construction materials; helping manufacturers recognize the need for both transparency in the manufacturing process and effective non toxic alternatives. Margaret has taught design studio at Columbia College in New York and regularly participates in student reviews at the University of Washington.

She received a bachelor of Environmental Design, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Texas A&M University in 1986, and a master of architecture degree in 1993 from Columbia University. She participated in Texas A&M’s Italian Studies Program in Florence in 1985 and an exchange program with the Moscow Institute of Architecture and Columbia University in 1993 where she taught a seminar in Russian Art Nouveau in Architecture. At Columbia she was teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate level design studios. After completing her master’s degree, while in New York, Sprug continued to be a guest critic for design studios at Columbia and Rhode Island School of Design. She was keynote Speaker at the 25th Anniversary of Alvar Aalto’s Library in Mt Angel, Oregon.

After having her own firm in New York from 1994 to 1999, Sprug joined Miller Hull in 2000. She became an associate in 2006 and principal in 2007. Margaret has a strong passion for environmental sustainability, energy efficiency, and renewable energy technologies as well as projects that respond to the regional setting and climate.