Chris Ihle

Two men standing in front of a Lego statue

Q&A with Lego sculptor, ISU alum Chris Ihle

From a sales career at Wells Fargo to running a business building life-size Lego statues, Chris Ihle will celebrate his return to Iowa with a live Lego build of George Washington Carver at this year’s Iowa State Fair. He started his company, We Build U, in Iowa in 2018 with everyone working out of basements, but 2020 brought the opportunity for Ihle and his team to open a gallery at