R. Chris Daemmrich, Assoc. AIA, NOMA

Chris Daemmrich is a designer and organizer raised in Austin, Texas, on Tonkawa land.  He has worked in architectural, development, advocacy and political organizations in New Orleans, across Louisiana, and throughout the US. Chris studied architecture and political science on Chitimacha, Choctaw and Houma land at Tulane University, graduating in 2017 with a master's degree in architecture and a bachelor's degree in political science.

Chris is a National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Project Pipeline mentor, serves on the boards of NOMA Louisiana and of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans. He is a past board member of the Association for Community Design, a co-founder of the Architecture Lobby's Racial Justice Working Group, an organizer with Dark Matter U. and of the LGBTQIA+ advocacy project Out in Architecture. 

In his educational, design and planning work, Chris prepares students and professionals to challenge unjust systems. A resident of New Orleans since 2012, Chris has lived in the city’s Broad Street neighborhoods since 2018. He has worked as a project manager for community economic development nonprofit Broad Community Connections since 2023.

Chris is inspired in his work by his grandmother, Ellen Loeb, a public schoolteacher in Montgomery, Alabama, and by her father, Isidore Green, owner of a retail clothing store in downtown Bessemer, Alabama in the early 20th century.

Find him on Twitter and Instagram @sodaemmgood

Full CV available here.