SaraLee Lanier,
NCARB - Associate Principal
SaraLee Lanier grew up learning from her draftsman father and her uncles who all worked in various facets of the building industry in her native Idaho. SaraLee’s passion for architecture began at a young age when she found herself sketching architectural images she had seen in movies such as Gone With the Wind. These Victorian and Georgian images were a far cry from her first rustic cabin assignment as a first-year architecture student at Idaho State University.
After completing her Masters of Architecture at the University of Idaho, SaraLee spent a year working for an architecture firm in Sun Valley, Idaho before joining Ward + Blake Architects in 2001. She has become a master of REVIT modeling as well as a highly efficient member of the Ward + Blake team. SaraLee directs the production work in the firm and has learned some fun tricks to show to her father who still drafts by hand. “Life is too short to live with ordinary space,” says SaraLee.