Ted Reeds is President of Ted Reeds Architecture and brings 38 years of experience across a wide range of project types, including restaurants, lodging, offices, urban mixed-use developments, healthcare facilities, and both new construction and renovations for multi-family, commercial, and single-family residential buildings. He is highly skilled in zoning and design analysis, entitlement presentations, and serving as an Owner’s Representative. He is especially passionate about mentoring emerging architects in both design and client engagement.
A licensed architect in 48 states and the District of Columbia, Reeds currently holds active licenses in Oklahoma, Florida, California, Colorado, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Texas. He is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) and is a member and former president of both the Eastern Oklahoma Chapter and AIA Oklahoma.
A vocal advocate for vibrant urban environments, Reeds frequently leads architectural tours and seminars for groups ranging from Leadership Oklahoma to international students at Booker T. Washington High School. He has collaborated with filmmaker Jack Frank on several Tulsa Art Deco documentaries and hosted a CSPAN tour of Tulsa architecture in 2015. He is currently featured in Tulsa ICONs, a monthly film series celebrating the city’s landmark buildings.
Reeds serves on several boards, including the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (TMAPC), the Preservation Commission, the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture (TFA), the Spotlight Theater, and the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture Professional Advisory Board (PAB). He is a founding member and past president of TFA and regularly leads its Second Saturday Downtown Tours.
His contributions to Tulsa’s architectural narrative have been recognized in Politico and Monocle Magazine (2019), and he has presented at numerous conferences, including the 2009 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference and the 2003 TFA Urban Design Conference. His civic involvement includes work with the Conference on City Design for North Tulsa, the Tulsa Chamber’s Committee on Orderly Development, and the advisory board for the Downtown Transit Station.
Among his recent projects, Jackson Technical—designed in collaboration with The McIntosh Group—received an AIA Citation Award. He also designed the Blue Rose Café on the Arkansas River, the first habitable structure on piers in Tulsa. As an equity partner in the site, he continues to shape its Phase II development.
Earlier in his career, Reeds led Ted Reeds Associates in New York City (1980–1990), where his work was featured in The New York Times and on the cover of Interiors magazine (1986) for his design of Le Brun’s Metropolitan Life Tower. Five of his buildings appear in the AIA Walking Tours of New York City (2009 edition). His work on Tulsa’s Atlas Life Building earned both Designer’s Choice and Juror’s Choice awards from AIA in 1992. As a graduate student, he placed fourth in the 1980 NAIE Paris Prize Competition for a proposed New York City convention center.
Outside of architecture, Reeds enjoys time with family, running, baseball, golf, OU football, snow skiing, single malts, poetry, sculpture, and a good Provence rosé.
He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Oklahoma (1980) and a Bachelor of Arts in French and European History from Washington & Lee University (1976). A graduate of Aspen High School (1972), he is a proud native of Tulsa.
