David Timmerman has practiced architecture since 2003 and joined brwarchitects in 2014. He designs and manages a diverse range of projects, including historic preservation, but he has most recently focused on our commercial work. Before his career in architecture, he worked as a raft guide in the Grand Canyon and built banjos in a small shop. These experiences in craftsmanship and appreciating the wonder of the natural world continuously inform his work.

David stepped into a Senior Associate Role in 2022 after excelling in a mentor capacity for junior staff. He has lead the firm’s largest commercial projects, including several on tight urban sites in Charlottesville’s historic downtown districts. In all his work, he’s focused on the revelation of craft through detail, the reciprocal relationship between building and site, and implementation of sustainability though sensible passive design principals. Discovering connections with literature, rhetoric and art is an important part of the design process and a way to further enrich our history and place.

Contributing to the tradition of BRW staff serving the community, David has been involved in Big Brothers, Habitat for Humanity, and the Historic Green Springs Association and is a supporter of Wild Virginia and the Old Growth Forest Network. In his spare time, David enjoys traveling, reading, strumming on his banjo and most of all spending time with his wife Jessie and daughter Beatrix.

David currently serves on the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review.