Nationality American Occupation Architect | Projects JW Marriott Las Vegas Name Ethan Nelson | |
Alma mater Haverford College, Columbia University | ||
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Ethan S. Nelson, AIA is an American architect based in Las Vegas. He is the President of Steelman Partners LLP, an entertainment architecture firm. Nelson is also the COO of the Steelman Partners affiliated companies: DSAA (Interior Design), shop12 (Lighting Design) and Inviro Studios (Animation and architectural visualization). He is a stakeholder in Steelman Properties, the parent company's real estate affiliate.
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Nelson specializes in large-scale integrated casino resorts, hospitality and educational and master planned residential projects. He is a licensed architect in Florida and Nevada. He is an active member of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
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Education
Nelson was born in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, where his father was stationed while working for the U.S. Department of State. Nelson's family returned to the United States in 1966. He spent his formative years in Washington DC, where he graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1981. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College in 1985 and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. At Columbia, Nelson studied under: Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi, Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava and James Stewart Polshek.
Career
Upon completing his MArch at Columbia, Nelson relocated to Florida, where he partnered with Scott Merrill. Nelson assisted with the architectural designs of numerous buildings in Seaside, Florida and Windsor, in the master-planned communities by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. In 1992, Nelson returned to Washington DC to join Keyes Condon and Florance (now Smith Group) where he was a member of the team that designed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Education and Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 1994 Nelson joined Hartman-Cox Architects where he was the Project Architect for the Georgetown University Law Center, McDonough Hall Extension.
Nelson joined Steelman Partners (then Paul Steelman Design Group) in 1996. He was originally hired as the Project Architect for resort at Summerlin (now the JW Marriott Las Vegas). In 2003, Nelson assumed the head of the company's operations. President since 2008, Nelson currently oversees project delivery, business development and operations. He is also responsible for implementing the firm's strategic plan. In recent years, he has overseen the expansion of the practice into Macau, Zhuhai, Amsterdam and Vietnam. He has contributed to the execution of projects for clients including MGM Resorts International, Station Casinos, Hard Rock, Las Vegas Sands and Cantor Gaming among others. He has been a panelist speaker at the Global Gaming Expo in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Personal life
Nelson is married to Elizabeth White Nelson, Associate Professor of History at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They have three children.