Through my 30 plus years of architectural practice I’ve come to understand that good architecture is not only engineered well and meets or exceeds our clients’ functional goals but that, hopefully, it also evokes a positive emotional response from the people who use it everyday.
Jake Schneider heads Schneider Architectural Services, PC, which specializes in the adaptive reuse of historic structures in the Buffalo & Western New York area. His firm’s award winning architecture and development projects dot the landscape of WNY.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture (1978), Jake is also member of the American Institute of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration, and the Interfaith Forum on Religious Art and Architecture.
Jake is also very active within the WNY community. He was a founding member of the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, served two terms as its president, and has been an active director since 1981. He also served on the board of the Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, is a trustee of the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, was a past chair of the St. Francis High School Board of Directors, and has held other important important philanthropic and religious posts. Jake also serves on the Advisory Board for Real Estate Development program at University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture & Planning, where he also volunteers as a student mentor.