Integrated design firm DLR Group announced the appointment of Mark Tiscornia, AIA, ACHA, as global healthcare leader. Specialized in leading teams in the design of large-scale academic, acute care and ambulatory healthcare facilities, Tiscornia joins DLR Group as a principal and will be based in Phoenix, Arizona.
With nearly 30 years of design and construction experience at firms such as HDR, HGA, Cunningham and Anshen+Allen, Tiscornia has planned, designed and managed a wide range of healthcare projects. Of note is the Stanford University Children’s Hospital Expansion, which augmented the groundbreaking Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and carried its revolutionary principles — from environmental sustainability, to enhancing the user experience with biophilic design, and a multi-layered art program — into a new era of pediatric care.
“As a strategic master planner who balances design and user experience with operational demands, Mark will be instrumental in strengthening DLR Group’s reach and impact in this sector,” said DLR Group CEO Steven McKay, AIA, RIBA. “He joins our team with a proven track record of executing projects of varying levels of complexity, and a keen sense of how to elevate healthcare design for patients, caregivers, and clients.”
Since the acquisition of Seattle-based healthcare design firm Salus Architecture and Charlotte-based healthcare design firm Wright McGraw Beyer Architects in 2021, DLR Group’s healthcare sector has a resume of more than 300 projects, including acute and ambulatory care for the Cleveland Clinic, regional healthcare systems, academic medical centers, Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics and medical facilities for the Department of Defense and the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command.
