Sims Design Group Associates LLC, often simplified as SDG Associates, is an American
architectural firm
In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and other countr ...
, headquartered in
Detroit
Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...
, Michigan, U.S.. It is the city of Detroit’s oldest Black-owned architecture firm.
History
It was founded in 1964 in
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the List of municipalities in Michigan, fifth-most populous cit ...
by architect
Howard Sims
Howard "Sandman" Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003) was an African-American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville. He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired h ...
, under the name Howard Sims & Associates.
In 1968 the office was moved to Detroit.
In 1969, the firm incorporated and Sims was given the role of president.
Architect
Harold Varner joined the firm in 1973.
By 1976, the firm name was changed to Sims–Varner to reflect a new Varner partnership, and Varner as the executive vice president.
It now operates as SDG Associates.
As of 2019, Wesley Sims (son of Howard Sims) is the
CFO and
COO of SDG Associates.
List of work by SDG Associates
See also
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Hamilton Anderson Associates
Hamilton Anderson Associates (HAA) is a Detroit-based, multi-disciplinary design firm founded in 1994 dedicated to improving the built environment through creative, contemporary design. HAA was founded by Rainy Hamilton Jr. and Kent Anderson, who ...
References
External links
Official website
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Architecture firms based in Michigan
Companies based in Detroit
Black-owned companies of the United States
American companies established in 1964