Architect Scott Merrill | Career Timeline

Scott Merrill Career Timeline

1956: Born in Oxford, Ohio

Scott as a student in first grade

1979: Completes a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia and begins a two-year tour of the U.S., absorbing architecture across the country

1982: Enters the School of Architecture at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where Merrill Earns a master’s degree in architecture in 1984 and begins his professional career in Washington D.C. with two architectural firms – McCartney Lewis and Cass & Pinnell

Yale Architecture Building
Photo Credit: Sage Ross

1988: Marries wife Zo Anne and heads south after receiving an invitation from developer Robert Davis to work as town architect in Seaside, Florida, where he serves for two years

Scott and Zo Anne, Seaside 1988

1990: Starts his own practice in Vero Beach, Florida, later called Merrill, Pastor & Colgan Architects

MPCA Office

1990: Receives a National American Institute of Architects Award of Excellence for Seaside’s Honeymoon Cottages – his first project as a sole practitioner

Photo Credit: MPCA

1997: Hires partner George Pastor

George Pastor

1999: Hires partner David Colgan, who opens the firm’s second office in Atlanta, Georgia

David Colgan

2000: Receives a national AIA Design Award for the Windsor Town Center – his first group of buildings

Windsor Town Center
Image Credit: MPCA

2004: Receives a national AIA Design Award for the Seaside Chapel and the Arthur Ross Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in New York

Seaside Chapel
Image Credit: MPCA