JRS Architects, Inc. is a team-oriented, client-centered, and community-engaged architectural firm based in Baltimore, Maryland. With a mission to create better places to learn and worship, JRS focuses on designing unique and inspired spaces that transcend geographical, social, and cultural boundaries. The firm’s approach emphasizes recognizing the intrinsic value in existing structures to bring added value to projects and renewal to communities, celebrating and elevating ordinary human activity through thoughtful design specific to each site, client, program, need, want, and budget.
As a woman-and-minority-owned, MDOT certified MBE firm, JRS Architects has been serving clients for 28 years, offering services to a diverse range of organizations including 21st Century Schools, the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland Stadium Authority, universities, foundations, and non-profit institutions. The firm is committed to community engagement and design, particularly within Baltimore City, aiming to make sensible and tangible contributions to the beauty of the city and state. JRS Architects invites architects and architectural interns to join their team, emphasizing the importance of meaningful work in a supportive environment.
With a belief that beauty is underrated, JRS Architects strives to make a positive impact through their architectural projects, providing opportunities, landmarks, and focal points that enhance communities. The firm’s design solutions are informed by local knowledge and ready access, ensuring familiarity, awareness, sensitivity, and constructive outcomes. By seeking individuals who are thoughtful, focused, and design-oriented, JRS Architects aims to play an important role in addressing urban challenges and contributing to the improvement of Baltimore through innovative and purposeful architecture.