Whit Iglehart spent his early years following his educator father to private schools and colleges in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, France and Sub-Saharan Africa. Boarding school experience at Eaglebrook School and Phillips Exeter Academy reinforced his understanding and appreciation for the value of learning. It also nurtured an early awareness of the role architecture plays in the human condition, as watching the construction and later inhabiting Louis Kahn’s Exeter Library proved to be a formative experience in his preparation. Later at Yale School of Architecture his interest in architecture was further refined into a passion and a vocation.

Since joining Tai Soo Kim Partners in 1985, Whit has been involved in a wide array of projects for schools, colleges and other institutions. He is a member of the Society of College and University Planners, and a U.S. Green Business Council LEED Accredited professional. He brings to his role as architect a unique ability to listen to the many constituencies of a campus, to make sense of often wide-ranging and contradictory concerns and then transform them into workable concrete solutions. His talent is rooted in the ability to work well with people. Whit reasons that, "Great Architecture is not designed in a vacuum, nor does it spring fully developed from the mind of an architect. Rather it is the result of a collaborative and evolutionary process between the architect and client."

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