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Conrad Ello, AIA, LEED AP (age 56) is an architect and founding principal of Oudens Ello Architecture, an award-winning, Boston-based architecture and urban design office specializing in cultural, academic and commercial design projects. Mr. Ello has over thirty years of professional experience and a particular strength managing complex museum and library building projects. His firm’s work has received national recognition for design excellence and several of their projects have received green building recognition through the US Green Building Council’s LEED certification process. Signifying the firm’s commitment to green building design and a sustainable future, it is a signatory to the American Institute of Architects’ 2030 Commitment, moving the firm towards the design and implementation of carbon-neutral buildings by the year 2030.
Mr. Ello received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1989 and a Masters in Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1994. While completing his Masters degree, he served as a reserve officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, retiring as a Captain in 1997. After graduating from Harvard and prior to co-founding his firm in 2007, Mr. Ello was Vice President of Machado and Silvetti Associates, an internationally recognized design office in Boston. In collaboration with principal Jorge Silvetti, he co-authored La Nueva Villa Getty, a book documenting the twelve-year design and construction process of the Getty Villa, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s museum of antiquities and comparative archaeology in Los Angeles, California that opened to the public in 2006.
Mr. Ello has been a registered architect since 1996 and holds active licenses in Alabama, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Vermont. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Boston Society of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and the New England Museum Association. He is also a former adjunct faculty member of Northeastern University and Boston Architectural College and actively participates as guest critic at several area colleges and universities, as well as design juror throughout the country for the AIA.
Mr. Ello is currently a board member and Vice President of the Friends of Ringgold Park, a non-profit institution committed to the improvement and stewardship of a vital green space within Boston’s diverse South End neighborhood. He also serves on the University Club of Boston’s Future Leaders of Boston Scholarship Committee, which administers a need-based college scholarship fund and provides mentorship throughout college to its scholarship awardees. He and his wife, Claudia Noury-Ello, are long-standing residents of the South End, where they have raised their two children, Aldo and Bibi.
Mr. Ello scouting history dates back to the 1970s while a member of pack and troop units in West Germany and Massachusetts. In 1979, his family relocated to the Washington D.C. area where he joined Troop 698 in the National Capital Area Council. While with the troop, Mr. Ello attended the 1981 National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill Virginia and Philmont Scout Ranch in 1982. He is a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow and attained the rank of Eagle Scout on April 18, 1983.
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