Josh Shelton, AIA

Partner

EL DORADO

Team Role:

Architecture & Urban Design; Project Lead

Established in 1996, El Dorado is an integrated architecture, urban design, curatorial, education and fabrication practice located in Kansas City, Missouri and Portland, Oregon. The team at El Dorado works purposefully across scales and contexts, from city blocks to exhibitions, between critical ideas and our intangible, spiritual attachment to place.

The firm’s two partners and 26 staff—including 14 architects & urban designers, a university professor, industrial designers and certified welders—chase big ideas with a common touch. El Dorado’s work in the non-profit sector and its innovations in equitable urban design strategies led to Architect Magazine recognizing the firm as the #5 Design Practice in the US during 2019.