Matt Hodel
720-941-3749
Key Illustration, llc
Denver, CO
Matt Hodel
Denver resident Matt Hodel is the owner and lead designer of Key Illustration. His unique architecture and building contracting skills set him apart with a unique ability to bridge dreams, reality, and outcomes. Matt worked with his dad, Rich Hodel, a veteran, master craftsman, and well-respected custom home builder, in Peoria, Illinois. Rich Hodel is a man of unwavering principles with an intuitive understanding of construction as a craft, and he created timeless, stunning homes. His dad’s handed down technical knowledge, patience, and love guide Matt through each project.
Denver resident Matt Hodel is the lead designer of Key Illustration
Matt’s insight helps clients manage potential issues before construction, which saves money by helping to avoid frustrating cost overruns, change orders, and delayed construction timelines. He’s a creative designer specializing in residential design, building information modeling technology, and photorealistic rendered images.
No one will remember you for something you didn’t do
be unique, take risks
Having earned his Bachelor of Architecture in Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Matt practiced as an intern architect in Denver for eleven years, gaining experience in healthcare and commercial architecture before going out on his own. Matt worked for his father, who owns a custom home-building business in central Illinois, to complement his architectural background. Matt helped build fifteen custom homes from the ground up and worked on countless remodel jobs.
Nothing worth doing is ever easy
and if so, something is wrong
Earned it honestly
through persistence, trial, and error
Before working on his own, Matt worked at Davis Partnership Architects and Lawrence Group Architects. Matt became a 3D guru as he observed and participated on a small scale with the Hamilton Wing Addition of the Denver Art Museum by Daniel Libeskind and Davis Partnership Architects.
Matt considers success as a progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Make no small plans in life.
Matt’s favorite pastimes are mountain biking and skiing in Colorado.
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