Bert Gregory FAIA is a Design Partner on projects with a focus on work in the urban realm, including transit-oriented development, mixed use/mixed income, higher education, civic, workplace and urban design. Bert’s project design leadership has resulted in four American Institute of Architects (AIA) COTE Top 10 Green Project awards, two American Society of Landscape Architects National Honor Awards, an AIA National Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design, and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Award of Excellence. He is a Fellow of AIA and the United States Green Building Council. Bert serves as an international leader, speaker and advocate for sustainable building and urbanism, leads the firm’s Research & Development team at Mithun, and serves on Washington’s Cross Laminated Timber Leadership Team.

Bert’s current mass timber projects include a manufacturing plant prototype for Sidewalk Labs’ mass timber highrise PMX system, a CLT modular housing prototype, attainable modular CLT housing in Tukwila and Tacoma, a CLT manufacturing plant, CLT modular housing manufacturing plant, and the recently completed Katerra twelve story CLT student housing prototype. Focused on academic, civic, and mixed use/mixed income campus and urban development. He works as an architect & urban designer, other current work includes 4 ½ blocks of mixed-use development in Portland and a full block in Portland’s Goose Hollow neighborhood. Bert was the designer of REI’s Seattle Flagship store, the largest new wood commercial structure in downtown Seattle at that time and the timber/steel Heartline office building in Portland’s Pearl district.  

Under his 15-year leadership as Mithun’s Chairman and CEO, Bert led the firm to international recognition for healthy, performance-based design, positive for people and place. The firm was honored with over 165 design awards, the Sustainable Design Leadership Award from AIA/IIDA/Cornet Global, the Regional Leadership Award from the United States Green Building Council and was named to the top 15 of all design firms in the US by Architect Magazine. With offices in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles the firm serves worldwide clients in the private, public, institutional and non-profit sectors.

He served as Co-Chair of ULI's Climate, Land Use and Energy Advisory Committee; Vice Chair of the USGBC LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee; as an advisor to the National Building Museum’s Intelligent Cities Initiative, and as faculty of the EcoDistrict Institute. Past service includes the ULI Building Healthy Places Advisory Committee, the AIA Design and Health Leadership Group, the Global EcoDistricts Protocol Advisory Committee, the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Climate Positive Development Project Review Committee, President of AIA Seattle, and Chair of the Forterra Board of Directors. Bert currently serves on the national AIA’s Board Government Advocacy Committee, the ULI TOD Council, Forterra’s CLT Leadership Committee, and as an inaugural member of the Cascadia Congress of the Living Future Institute.