A native Angeleno, Ben Stapleton is a recognized sustainability leader who brings a creative mind and consultative approach to a wide range of projects with a focus on building teams and designing programs to deliver impactful results. His current work is based on coordinating an ecosystem leveraging the built environment as the entry point and

Charles Berman is an Associate Principal who joined the studio in 2013. He attended Arizona State University and received a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been practicing architecture for over 30 years. Berman is a senior member of the design team of The Shed. As the Senior Technical Director on

Michelle Lee works at Behnisch Architekten, where she specializes in façade design, computational techniques, digital fabrication, building model simulation, and material research. Notable projects include the Harvard Science and Engineering Complex and the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania . Prior to joining Behnisch, Michelle worked at Morphosis Architects

With a career in architecture spanning 30 years, James Woolum has significant experience designing corporate, healthcare, research, and institutional environments. His design approach leads to honest, authentic, and user-focused solutions deeply rooted in the unique culture, process, and community of each client. James has led design and workplace strategy efforts for a variety of media,

Tom Wiscombe, born in 1970, is Principal and Founder of Tom Wiscombe Architecture (TWA) in Los Angeles. His work is known for its powerful massing, alluring graphic qualities, and tectonic inventiveness, all underwritten by contemporary ecological thinking. Tom combines his renowned design expertise with a deep knowledge of construction and project delivery– gleaned from a

Mark Hershberg started at KPFF in 2001 with experiences in bridge design on the east coast and airframe design for military aircraft in Los Angeles. He has since afforded experience in healthcare facilities, research labs, central utility plants, higher education, multi-family residential and commercial office projects. He has lead teams to provide award winning structural

Luke’s expertise is rooted in the tectonics of complex systems, with a particular focus on the environmental and formal performance of building skins. He has worked extensively on projects that include a high level of prefabrication, as well as the direct-to-fabrication process. Prior to joining KDA he was Associate Director of Design for a façade

Avideh Haghighi is an Associate Principal and Licensed Architect at ZGF where she dedicates herself to designing a regenerative built environment. As a firm-wide sustainability leader, she guides ZGF teams in discovering synergies between building, social, and ecological processes. Avideh has a diverse body of cutting-edge high performance projects spanning public and private sectors, such

The University of Arizona (ASU), which has constructed several new buildings and overseen extensive renovations to its existing structures recently, added the Health Sciences Innovation Building to that list in May of 2020. Designed by CO Architects, the 9-story building offers 230,000 square feet of space to support an extensive network of professional and academic

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Laura Karnath is a registered architect and Senior Enclosure Technical Designer at Walter P Moore’s Los Angeles office. She is a leader in computational design and holds broad global experience in the organizational models and technical challenges involved in the delivery of large international projects. Having overseen the delivery of highly complex building envelopes on four continents,

Seven massive residential towers are beginning to steadily rise along the waterfront of the Mott Haven community in the South Bronx, New York. Designed by Hill West Architects, the residential complex known as Bankside is actually two sites that are bifurcated by the Third Avenue Bridge. New York City has more than 520 miles of

Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip is a charming hodgepodge where buildings old and new jostle for space with palm trees and rotating billboards. Adding to this riotous scene is a new urban marker every bit as attention-grabbing as Hollywood blockbusters and architectural kitsch. At 67 feet tall, the West Hollywood Sunset Spectacular is somewhere between a

Replacing a dilapidated two-story building, Valerie Schweitzer Architects’ Hide and Seek apartment complex is one of many new projects to join the low-slung stretch of Los Angeles’s Overland Avenue. The 4-story, 15 unit building brings a dynamic facade full of depth to a multifamily housing cluster straddling the border of single-family lots—a condition common to

Thomas Robinson is the Founder of LEVER Architecture, a design practice with offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California. His firm is widely recognized for material innovation and for pioneering work with Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). His recent projects include 843 N Spring Street, slated to be one of the largest mass timber buildings in

Kais Al-Rawi, AIA works at the intersection of architecture and engineering. He is a Senior Associate at the Los Angeles office for Walter P Moore. Kais focuses primarily on the façades and specialty structures of projects at a multitude of scales, ranging from artwork and stadia to airports and museums. His expertise has been leveraged

Manzer Mirkar is a Project Architect and Designer at HKS, Los Angeles. His portfolio includes work on a variety of project types ranging from Art Museums, Educational Facilities, Hospitality and Sports with a keen focus on geometrical and technical complexity. His diverse background and technological expertise allows him a unique perspective on architectural processes through