[ About the firm ]
Three decades of St. Louis craft.
Kaelo is a one-architect studio with a deep bench. Kevin Logan has been designing, drafting, estimating, and managing construction in the St. Louis metro for more than 30 years.
Kevin Logan
Owner / Operator — Kaelo Architecture LLC
Licensed Architect — State of Missouri
B.Arch, University of Kansas '95
Kevin Logan grew up in St. Louis working summers beside his father, Lloyd — a pharmacist, Air Force veteran who worked on aircraft electronics at Scott Air Force Base, and a self-taught craftsman who taught electronics and woodworking to Kevin and neighborhood kids.
After St. Louis University High School and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas (class of '95), Kevin started his career at KAI Design & Build, one of the region's few large Black-owned firms. He cleaned warehouses and ran blueprints before teaching himself AutoCAD and earning real drafting work.
Stints at Team Four followed, then co-founding X3 LLC — a tradesmen staffing company that built several single-family homes on the 4300 block of Washington Avenue in the Central West End, including 4357 Washington (2013). He launched Kaelo Architecture in 2012.
"Once you get that opportunity, you've got to set people up for success." — Kevin Logan
[ Trajectory ]
30+ years on St. Louis sites.
Pre-1991
St. Louis University High School. Summers spent working alongside his father, Lloyd Logan — a pharmacist, Air Force veteran (Scott AFB), and self-taught craftsman who taught electronics and woodworking to Kevin and the neighborhood kids.
1995
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Kansas. Class of '95. Donated, with his fraternity brother Cal, a named seat in the KU architecture school auditorium.
Mid-1990s
Starts at KAI Design & Build, one of the region's few large Black-owned firms. Cleaned warehouses and ran blueprints before teaching himself AutoCAD and earning drafting work.
2000s
Stints at Team Four. Co-founds X3 LLC, a tradesmen staffing company that builds single-family homes on the 4300 block of Washington Avenue in the Central West End.
2012
Founds Kaelo Architecture LLC in St. Louis.
2013
X3 builds 4357 Washington Avenue, a single-family infill home on a vacant lot in the Central West End. Covered by NextSTL.
2026
St. Louis Post-Dispatch profiles his self-designed McKinley Heights family home — built almost entirely by minority tradespeople — and his career-long push for inclusive crews on St. Louis job sites.