Team Members
VernerJohnson maintains a core group of creative and experienced museum architects and planners in our Boston-area office. As current project needs evolve, we draw from our outside network of specialist museum consultants, engineers, exhibit designers, and others as needed. This expandable team approach allows us to handle any size museum project with personalized service.
Firm President and Architect, Brad Nederhoff is the driving force behind VernerJohnson. Since joining the firm in 1983, he has worked in key management, design and planning positions on more than 80 museum projects, representing a broad variety of all museum types. He maintains personal involvement on each project throughout all phases, with particular emphasis on generating and developing design concepts and overseeing the overall project team.
Strategic Partners
VernerJohnson and Gienapp Architects often collaborate as a Strategic Partnership, allowing us to seamlessly combine staffing resources. Our varied backgrounds and experiences enhance each other, forming a symbiotic relationship that greatly benefits our clients. Gienapp Architects is a 13 person firm offering services that include building design, project management, feasibility studies, master planning, site selection analysis, code review and evaluation, building assessment as well as due diligence and space needs analysis.
Background
We are often asked, “How did VernerJohnson come to specialize in museum architecture and planning?”
As a newly-trained MIT architecture graduate, E. Verner Johnson founded the firm in 1965 with the major expansion to the Museum of Science in Boston. After many years of successful educational, library and public works projects, the firm reorganized to specialize in museum planning and design in 1978. Since then, we have focused our practice in the museum field, offering comprehensive services that museum leadership will need as they move their project from initial stages through completion. Verner Johnson retired from the firm in 2008 and has since passed in 2017.
Brad Nederhoff became a Partner in 2000 and has successfully managed and led the firm since 2009, building upon the foundations established by Verner’s innovative leadership.
