Marshall Anderson

Biography: Marshall Anderson Design Initiative, LLC Birmingham, AL Marshall Anderson has fifteen years of professional experience as an architect coordinating and contributing to multidisciplinary teams on a variety of project types. He has been responsible for the success of a variety of award winning buildings and designs. Since 1997, Marshall has been Project Architect and Designer on many wide-ranging projects including planning, single and multi-family residential, retail, institutional and commercial work. In 2007, Marshall and business partner Kris Nikolich founded Design Initiative, an architectural firm focused on regionally specific sustainable design and development. Projects in which the firm is currently involved include helping the City of Birmingham re-define its sustainable goals through their work on the redesign of a City Park; working as the Town Architect for Trussville Springs, a DPZ planned 170-acre traditional neighborhood development designed along the banks of the Cahaba River; the design and construction of a new LEED Platinum residence; as well as a recent effort to create sustainable, affordable and livable housing in communities in the Southeast, Australia, and the Middle East. After serving four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Anderson went to Auburn University and graduated in 1997, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Architecture. He now serves on the Advisory Council for the University’s School of Architecture, co-founded the local AIA Committee on the Environment, and is the director of the cathedral parish youth group in Birmingham. (September 2012)