Kyle Trendel, Baldwin City, has been named partner and principal owner of DeVore + Associates Architects in Ottawa.

Trendel has experience with some of the area’s top design firms, and among the projects he has worked on are the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University and the World War I Monument-Liberty Memorial Restoration and Addition in Kansas City, Mo.

Trendel is the firm’s director of operations, responsible for managing client communication and company marketing.