Bio:

Tre Yancy is an associate project manager for Fleming Architects in Memphis, TN. After graduating with a B.Arch from Howard University, he returned home to bring his service and energy to the city that he loves through multifamily, education and adaptive reuse projects. As a Memphis native, he’s also worked with a neighborhood development group in the Binghampton community creating new spaces and various organizations cultivating career development opportunities for local emerging professionals.

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How did you first learn about architecture and when did you decide that built environment profession was an area of interest for you?

I used to draw my dads office building when I was younger everyday I'd got to work with him. Then I'd build it with Legos when I got home. My parents suggested that I look into architecture as a profession when I got older...

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What do you do?

As an architectural associate, designer, and project manager (simply put) I create spaces for people.

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What excites you in the work you do? 

Watching how people experience, move through, and interact with the spaces that we create.

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Who or what inspires you professionally? 

Architecture to me is all about storytelling; with buildings serving not only as as a vessel for different people's stories but also a physical embodiment of them. Creating spaces for those stories to take place is what drives me.

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What is your proudest professional accomplishment or achievement?

Getting to rehab a blighted field in the neighborhood my family has lived for decade. It was once the site of the elementary school my parents and grandparents all went to.

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Featured Project Name: 

Conwood Flats

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Featured Project Location: 

Memphis, TN

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Featured Project Completion Date: 

December 2022​

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Role in Featured Project: 

Project Designer

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Featured Project Description:

Originally built in 1912, the Conwood Building was the home of the American Snuff Company as their primary tobacco factory. Now a rehabbed adaptive reuse project, this mixed-use building has been given a new life housing a multi-family development and office headquarters. Conwood is a blend of new spaces intentionally placed to highlight historic aspects of the existing building - creating unique moments across the 6 building complex.

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Photography Credit:

Fleming Architects