Architecture for Omaha and Nebraska
Emergent Architecture’s Omaha office partners with healthcare providers, businesses, schools, municipalities, developers, and community organizations to create spaces grounded in real needs.
Our Omaha architects combine local relationships with specialized planning and design experience. We listen closely, ask thoughtful questions, and stay engaged from the earliest conversation through construction.
Local leadership. Specialized expertise.
Omaha is a growing, connected community where thoughtful investment can shape how people work, receive care, learn, and gather for years to come.
Our Omaha studio provides clients with accessible local leadership backed by Emergent’s multidisciplinary team. We assemble the right expertise for each project while keeping relationships personal, communication clear, and project goals at the center of every decision.
Design expertise for Omaha and Nebraska
Healthcare
Healthcare design must support patients, families, providers, and staff simultaneously. Our experience includes medical planning, campus planning, clinics, medical office buildings, renovations, additions, and environments designed around efficient care delivery.
We prioritize intuitive circulation, clear wayfinding, operational efficiency, accessibility, comfort, and the flexibility to respond to changing healthcare needs.
Commercial and Workplace
We design workplaces and commercial environments around how organizations operate. Thoughtful planning helps teams collaborate, serve customers, express their identity, and adapt as their needs evolve.
Education and Civic
Schools and public facilities require careful listening and responsible long-term planning. We help clients assess existing conditions, engage stakeholders, compare options, and create spaces that support both daily use and broader community goals.
Housing and Religious
Housing and religious projects begin with understanding the people who will live, gather, and build community there. We balance practical requirements with dignity, belonging, stewardship, and long-term flexibility.
Meet the Omaha team
Our Cedar Falls studio brings together architects, designers, project managers, and technical specialists with deep connections to Northeast Iowa. Together, they pair local knowledge with firmwide expertise to guide education, civic, commercial, housing, and community projects from the earliest conversation through construction.
Omaha Leadership
Nick Hildebrandt
CEO, Principal Architect
Jesse Lizer
Chief Design Officer, Managing Principal
Justin Hoff
Chief Operating Officer
Sara Jansen
Principal Architect
Jennifer Karls
Senior Architect, Studio Lead
Tara Ludwig
Marketing Director
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Start a conversation in Omaha
Whether you are evaluating an existing facility, planning a renovation, preparing for growth, or beginning a new building, our Omaha team is ready to listen.
Emergent Architecture — Omaha
10404 Essex Court, Suite 101
Omaha, NE 68114
402.431.2935


