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The Practice

Two practices.
One accountability.

Nonstandard is one integrated team that designs, builds, and advises. Choose the door that fits the work: both answer to the same standard.

The Nonstandard advantage

Every decision has a downstream effect. We see them before they happen.

Ben Schulte
Founder + Principal

Ben Schulte

AIA
NCARB

Ben Schulte has spent his career helping some of the world's most influential organizations translate design ambition into scalable, buildable, financially disciplined outcomes. Licensed Architect with a developer's instinct for value and a builder's respect for constraint.

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Retail Design & Development Standards
Apple

Directed global retail prototypes, standards, and implementation strategy across more than 500 flagship and retail locations worldwide: aligning design, development, construction, sourcing, and program management around repeatable systems that protected brand quality while improving cost discipline, constructibility, and delivery consistency.

Workplace Innovation, Design & Development
Citadel

Founded and led Workplace Innovation across a global portfolio exceeding 1.5M SF, alongside two ground-up headquarters developments: integrating strategy, design, R&D, standards, governance, capital planning, and implementation across complex development and workplace initiatives.

Architecture
Arquitectonica, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Earlier in his career, led architecture projects on high-profile mixed-use, high-rise, residential, commercial, and cultural projects with world class developers: from initial feasibility and entitlement through design development and implementation.

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