Records located for fined architect

GUYMON — The unlicensed architect who has been designing Guymon’s new library, fire station and animal shelter has a bachelor of science degree in design and a master of architecture degree from Arizona State University.

The Oklahoman reported Saturday that an employee of the Arizona State University registrar’s office said she could find no record of a Brian Curtis graduating since 1980 with degrees in those fields.

Curtis, 31, told The Oklahoman on Tuesday that even though he goes by the name Brian Curtis and his Scottsdale, Ariz., company is named Brian Curtis Studio Design LLC, his full name is Dennis Brian Curtis.

The Oklahoman was able to confirm Tuesday that Dennis Brian Curtis has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Arizona State University.

Curtis declined to publicly discuss other issues that prompted the board of governors for the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Interior Designers of Oklahoma to fine him and his company a combined $8,000 for fraud, dishonest practice, practicing architecture without a license and performing architectural work in the state without a certificate of authority in connection with his work for the city of Guymon.

City Manager Ted Graham said Curtis has been working under the supervision of architect Michael Whalen throughout the project for the city.

Whalen was not licensed as an architect in Oklahoma at the start of the project, but since hascompleted state licensing requirements.