Ken Clein is an Ann Arbor architect and member of the Ann Arbor planning commission.

Ken Clein at an August 2014 working session of the Ann Arbor planning commission. (Photo courtesy of The Ann Arbor Chronicle.)

For 14 years, Clein was a principal with Quinn Evans Architects, which specializes in historic preservation. Among his projects with QEA, Clein oversaw construction of the city of Ann Arbor Justice Center building and the renovations of the adjacent city hall. Other major projects included renovation and restoration work at the University of Michigan Hill Auditorium; the McKenny Union renovation at Eastern Michigan University; and the renovation and expansion of Zingerman's Deli.

In the summer of 2014, he joined Harley Ellis Devereaux in Southfield as a higher education design studio leader.

Prior to his years at QEA, Clein was a senior associate at Hobbs + Black Associates Inc. in Ann Arbor.

Clein was appointed to the Ann Arbor planning commission in July 2012 for a term ending July 1, 2015. At the commission's July 15, 2014 meeting, he was elected vice chair of that group for a one-year term.

Clein holds a master of architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor of architecture from the University of Detroit-Mercy.

Clein also serves as president of the board for the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, for a term ending June 2015. 

He is married to Colleen Crawley, a designer with Motawi Tileworks. They live in the upper Water Hill neighborhood, near Bluffs Nature Area.