About Molly
Molly Jorden is a licensed architect and passionate preservationist currently based in Albany, New York. Conservation of historic resources and the traditions and techniques that shape them has always been at the heart of Molly’s architectural pursuits. As the daughter of a flight attendant, she developed a taste for travel at an age when a crayon was more appropriate than a camera as a tool to capture the broad world she observed. While she now prefers watercolor, ink, graphite, or oil paint to colored wax, Molly has unfailingly insisted on maintaining the essential skill of hand drafting and rendering as part of the architectural process throughout her university and professional careers in cooperation with computer-aided design. Molly believes wholeheartedly that the craftsmanship and beauty of enduring architecture lies in the process as much as the product.
Molly’s Notre Dame undergraduate thesis project, A School for Traditional Building Craft in Cincinnati, earned her the ICAA Trumbauer Award for Excellence in Contemporary Classicism and the Gertrude S. Sollitt Prize for Architectural Structure. Together, they celebrate Molly’s philosophy of traditional design working in harmony with the craft of assembly to preserve and produce beautiful architecture that promotes sustainability through durability. Since graduating in 2022, Molly has had the opportunity to draw and paint professionally and to bring those images to life in built form through new design, preservation, and adaptive reuse informed by traditional global precedent. Outside of the office, a weekly mail exchange of sketches with a friend and former classmate keeps Molly disciplined in the good habit of frequent sketching.
See the resume below for Molly's professional qualifications, and follow the link to John G. Waite Associates, Architects 2023 - Present for Molly's current professional projects.
