Tad Bradley

Raised in the Adirondack Park and the Olympic village of Lake Placid, Tad has called the Rocky Mountains home for more than twenty-eight years. After earning his Master of Architecture from Montana State University, he has pursued a life shaped by curiosity—exploring materials, craft, teaching, travel, and design with equal dedication. His architectural education continues to ground his approach to research, fabrication, presentation, and dialogue.

Tad’s experience spans over a decade of university teaching, work in residential and commercial architecture, public speaking, blacksmithing apprenticeship, and a growing body of public and gallery-based sculptures. His adventures have taken him across Canada, Europe and Asia, both independently and with students. He has introduced makers from age six to eighty-three the wonder of fused glass.

Rooted in hands-on research and material fluency, Tad designs with a belief in the quiet power of space, light, scale, and texture to shape and awaken the human spirit. He draws inspiration from biomimicry and the humility it asks of us—seeing in nature’s adaptive intelligence a model for living and designing in balance with our environment.

When not in the studio or the office, Tad can often be found traveling with his family and three dogs, resting on mountain summits, swimming in high alpine lakes, or wandering long stretches of ocean shoreline.