Wesley (Wes)
Alexander
McClureFAIA
(1946– )
McClure was born in Minneapolis MN, lived in England for a year, and graduated from Pendleton HS in 1964. His father was Dean of the Architecture school at Clemson. He graduated with a BA in Architecture from NC State in 1969, where he was Student Body President for two years; then spent 3 years in the Navy in the Civil Engineer Corps. McClure interned at Odell Associates in Charlotte NC; a firm in Greenville SC; Milton Small in Raleigh NC; Abbey Hanson Rowe, Partners in Huddlesfield, England. He worked for a year in Washington DC with Keys, Lethbridge & Condon and returned to Raleigh to work with Envirotek for a year 1974-1975. He formed MTMA Design Group 1975-1993, ultimately merging with NBBJ; worked with O'Brien-Atkins 1993-1995; Envirotek from 1995-1999; then he partnered with Bill Hopkins in 1999 as McClure Hopkins Architects. That partnership ended amicably in 2013, and McClure continued on his own until retirement in 2018.
Sources include: Wes McClure; Bill Hopkins.
