Mel McGowan

Mel McGowan is President and Founder of Visioneering Studios, a national architecture, urban planning, and interior design firm with offices in Irvine, Denver, and Atlanta. His background includes film, urban design, and a decade-long stint with the Walt Disney Company. Visioneering recently received the 2009 Solomon Award for “Best Church Architect.” Mel speaks extensively on sustainable Christ-centered community and is the author of Design Like God Gives a Damn: Revolutionizing Sacred Space (2009).

Cities

Saving Suburbia: From the Garden to the City

I once lived the “American Dream.”

I had a single-family detached house on a half-acre parcel with a three-car garage in a bedroom suburb of Southern California. In order to afford my piece of the “American Pie,” I commuted to work at least an hour each way, barely making it home in time to tuck in my youngest child each night, and rarely in time to have dinner with the whole family.

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Cities

Design Intervention

Model cities like Portland have been touted for an intentional design that naturally intersects citizens with commerce, recreation and informal run-ins—it’s all part of what makes a community thrive. God uses place to shape our relational context with Him and others. Mel McGowan, founder of Visioneering Studios, explains how urban “Design Intervention” has renewed Portland and is embedding the seed of the Kingdom into communities around the world.

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Cities

A Theology of Place

An individual's theology of space and community really does effect the way we live. Listen as Mel McGowan talks about the necessity of having sacred spaces where genuine community can be fostered.

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