Jonathan J. McKim (Jonny) is a sole proprietor architect who prefers working directly for the Owner under the AIA Document B101-2017, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect. To this end, Jonny facilitates the AIA Document A101-2017 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Contractor to ensure a smooth contract delivery for his clients. Other aspects of Jonny’s practice include seeking an end to the affordable housing crisis, eliminating the built environment’s impact on the natural environment, disaster relief design & response, high-rise facade inspections, and advocating for a return to the traditional design-bid-build delivery method.

Jonny is comfortable working in both modern and traditional aesthetics, having been greatly influenced by the work of the late Louis I. Kahn while still in architecture school and later, the likes of Robert A.M. Stern, which led to his having developed a deeper appreciation of classical design and thus he advocates for the Rebuild Penn Station movement - where he is admittedly biased in advocating for the rebuilding of the original McKim, Mead & White design.

Jonny was born and raised in Chester Country, Pennsylvania, holds a five-year professional B-Arch from Temple University, where he started working in the A/E/C profession in 1998 at Temple’s Office of Planning & Design, and currently lives and maintains an office in San Francisco, California.