DESIGN FOR SMALL, MODERN HOMES
SPECIALIZING IN RENOVATIONS OF MIDCENTURY RAMBLERS AND RANCHES
About The Wessel Company
Kerrik Wessel, a registered architect located in the State of Minnesota with over 30 years of experience comes from a family of architects including his wife Heather Sexton, father Brian Wessel, grandfather Hans Wessel and his great grandfather Brör Wessel, a master builder from Sweden. He has been on the design team of many residential, educational and cultural projects. With his own firm, Kerrik has designed high quality, affordable and sustainable homes as well as the masterplan and buildings for a Swedish Village at Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota. All built projects have received awards and/or local press coverage. He has taught Architectural Design at Dunwoody College of Technology for several years and loves to travel with students and teach them the techniques of drawing by hand. He has recently developed a unique modular building system called Parasol Modular.
Lawrence University Bachelor of Arts
Russian and Studio Arts
1986
University of Minnesota Bachelor of Architecture
1994
Wessel Family History
Background
Hans Wessel, my grandfather, born in Malmo, Sweden on July 5th 1906 was the first of four sons of Hilma and Master Builder Bror Wessel. Hans John Erik Wessel arrived in Minneapolis at the age of eight. Working part time as a carpenter for Wessel and Johnson Construction, Hans graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Architecture in 1930. Hans immediately formed an architecture firm with classmate James Brunet named Wessel and Brunet Architects and Engineers adding Marvin Kline as a partner in 1934. During the firm's first ten years of existence prior to World War Two, Wessel and Brunet Architects and Engineers completed award winning projects such as the Kaufman House on Cedar Lake in Minneapolis.
Hans Wessel, just to the right of his mother Hilma and Master Builder father Bror Wessel.
