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Perspectives from the people of Perkins+Will, an architectural design firm collaborating with clients across the globe to achieve innovative, interdisciplinary, and sustainable design solutions that honor the broader goals of society. We encourage you to share your perspective and join our growing conversation.
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W.Scott Allen
Working out of our New York office, Scott Allen is a designer with experience encompassing more than twenty-five million square feet of work in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia. As an active volunteer Scott’s passion lies in helping others and delivering products and services to connect people in unexpected ways. He writes about economy of design, sustainability, and research.
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Janice Barnes
As Principal and Global Discipline Leader for Planning and Strategies, Janice focuses on the ways in which planning enables clients to meet their business goals. With twenty-five years of design experience as well as a significant research background, Janice’s work focuses on eliciting information on work practices and organizing this information to help clients make better decisions.
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Pat Bosch
Pat Bosch, Design Director of Perkins+Will’s Miami office, is internationally recognized for her design work. Born in Cuba and having lived in Spain, Puerto Rico, New York, Zurich and now Miami, Pat brings a global perspective to her practice. She is LEED accredited and has nearly 27 years of experience specializing in Higher Education, K-12 Schools, Science + Technology, Corporate Headquarters, and Civic buildings such as libraries and museums.
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Manuel Cadrecha
As Design Director for Perkins Will's Atlanta office, Manuel Cadrecha has designed projects that have been consistently recognized with regional, national, and international awards over a 30-year career. He is recognized as a strong, agile designer and a successful consensus builder, creating distinctive unified designs for each project. Manuel is a global firm leader in Corporate + Commercial + Civic and serves on the firm's Board of Directors. By considering cities of the past, he predicts what cities of future will be.
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Rachel Casanova
Rachel Casanova has over 15 years of experience helping companies transform their real estate assets to support long-term business strategies and corporate culture. With specialties in occupancy planning, programming, workplace standards development, and workplace transformation, Rachel works closely with clients to refine their business objectives and to respond with workplaces tailored to their needs.
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Filo Castore
Filo Castore is Associate Principal and Market Sector Leader for Corporate, Commercial, and Civic design with Perkins+Will in Houston, Texas. His approach to architecture promotes health, comfort, ecology, and building performance with an emphasis on a collaborative process and contextual thinking. Filo is a tireless advocate for sustainable design, and he is deeply involved in local, regional, and national architectural communities including leadership roles shaping sustainable policies.
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Leigh Christy
As an Associate Principal, Leigh Christy accepts design, construction, and project management responsibilities with enthusiasm and proficiency. Leigh strives to provide innovative, sustainable, and efficient facilities that meet the client’s needs. She is a member of the Perkins+Will Green Team, the leader of the Los Angeles office's Social Responsibility Committee, and co-leads the firm’s Innovation Incubator micro-grant program. Using both research and project work as a basis, Leigh frequently publishes articles and presents on issues dealing with social and environmental sustainability issues at all scales.
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David Cordell
In addition to leading the sustainability efforts of Perkins+Will’s Washington DC office, David Cordell has served as a project designer and technical coordinator for Perkins+Will for over nine years. His projects have received multiple awards and have been published in Contract magazine, American Builders Quarterly, and Building Design + Construction. His experience includes working with a variety of client types on numerous LEED projects, several earning LEED Platinum certification.
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Barbara Crum
Barbara Crum is a regional leader in Perkins+Will’s K12 Education design practice. Through her innovative planning and design, Barbara has helped clients and end users to develop and attain clear project goals. As a design team leader and manager, she has led all aspects of a project including programming, planning, design, and construction. Barbara's experience also includes a variety of project delivery methods and risk management.
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Tony DeEulio
Tony DeEulio has over 18 years of experience working with a variety of institutional, civic, and corporate clients. He has worked on all aspects of a project, from schematic design through construction administration. Recently, Tony served as project architect/designer for GlaxoSmithKline’s new office and laboratory campus project and also as the project architect/designer for the Center for Urban Waters’ LEED Platinum office and laboratory building in Tacoma, Washington.
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Suzanne Drake
Suzanne is a Senior Interior Designer in Perkins+Will’s San Francisco office. Her career has focused on commercial interiors, specializing in creating healthy environments and green interiors. She is a passionate green living educator and advisor who shares her knowledge through design work, teaching, and speaking engagements. Her book EcoSoul: Save the Planet and Yourself by ReThinking your Everyday Habits was published in 2013.
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Grace Duffett
Grace Duffett has over ten years of experience working with various client types, including on science and technology, commercial, hospitality, residential, and public projects. With a strong client focus, Grace is known for her efforts to help streamline communication across a team and successfully deliver high-quality projects under tight constraints. She is LEED AP and CDT-certified with experience on LEED Platinum projects.
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Paul Eagle
With over 25 years of experience in pre-architectural programming, long-range master planning, and strategic facility development, Paul Eagle has a demonstrated passion for how people work, collaborate, and play. Paul is Managing Director of the New York office, a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, and a Planning + Strategies advisor. In all his roles, he strategically ties organizational goals to a variety of scales of space, from an entire city to an individual workspace.
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Sarah Freidel
Sarah Freidel is a Planning + Strategies Consultant with a focus on planning and programming for Higher Education. She understands the complex challenges facing Higher Education and works closely with institutions to translate their strategic and academic missions into implementable facilities and campus plans. In her planning, Sarah seeks innovative solutions that bring together a wide range of institutional and community constituencies.
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Gisela Garrett
As a multidisciplinary brand manager, Gisela Garrett is focused on the connections between Perkins+Will, our clients, our collaborators, and our project beneficiaries. A firm believer in strong organizational values, she actively advocates a triple bottom line approach to business. Gisela holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied the psychology of space, and has been volunteering at the intersection of design and community development since childhood.
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David Gieser
David Gieser has more than 24 years of experience in the architectural profession. Acting as both Principal-in-Charge and Project Manager, David has lead several multifaceted and multidisciplinary design teams in collaboration with a variety of client types that include K-12 education, higher education, civic institutions, and commercial organizations.
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Breeze Glazer
Breeze Glazer is Perkins+Will’s research knowledge manager for healthcare sustainability. He is passionate about redefining the role of the built environment on human and ecological health and has applied his expertise to a range of projects, including acute care hospitals, academic medical centers, corporate offices, and homeless shelters. Breeze is an active leader in sustainable healthcare design, frequently sharing his expertise through speaking engagements, webinars, and authorship of publications and white papers.
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Shawn Godkin
Shawn’s architectural training and experience in planning and urban design make him a strong team member, particularly for projects that create and connect to urban environments, incorporate sustainable planning perspectives, and celebrate place-making in the civic realm. As Urban Designer for the Los Angeles office, Shawn offers unique knowledge of the redevelopment and urban design processes for clients such as the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation.
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Robert Goodwin
Robert Goodwin is the architectural Design Director for the New York office of Perkins + Will. With twenty-two years as a practicing architect, Rob brings a unique design sensibility to projects ranging in scale from complex mixed-use towers to signature light fixtures. His approach begins with an investigation of culture, context, and climate, and he integrates this analysis with a thorough understanding of function to create a unified and meaningful architectural response.
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Ryan Gravel
Ryan Gravel brings an architect’s perspective to urban planning, concept development and public policy. His master’s thesis in 1999 was the original vision for the ambitious Atlanta BeltLine. Now, as a senior urban designer in Perkins+Will’s Atlanta office and design manager for the Atlanta BeltLine Corridor Design contract, Ryan’s work has come full circle: from vision, to public support, to planning, design and implementation.
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Laura Grodoski
Laura Grodoski is a registered Interior Designer and a member of the American Society of Interior Designer (ASID), where she sits on their Illinois Advocacy Task Force, working toward legal recognition of the credentials and qualifications of Interior Designers. Previously a theatrical designer, Laura brings a passion for the arts to her work, and has even presented to the National Art Education Association on the importance of design in public school curriculum.
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Jason Harper
Jason Harper is an architect and associate principal in the New York office. With over 20 years of experience, Jason has honed his ability to help clients solve short-range problems as well as achieve successful long-range planning goals. His commitment to fostering the mission of his healthcare clients helps guide his efforts in delivering complex projects that are at once functional, beautiful, and sustainable.
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Brian Harris
Brian Harris is a Planning + Strategy consultant in the New York office. He is involved in corporate, civic and institutional projects providing, planning & programming, design, logistics, transition planning, and sustainable design services. His interest is in realizing the power of the built environment to effect positive social change. Brian holds Masters degrees from Columbia University in both Architecture and Business Administration.
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Phil Harrison
As President and CEO, Phil Harrison is responsible for the firm's strategic focus and business performance. Phil has been with Perkins+Will since 1993, initially working as an architect, and has since served as a member of the Board of Directors and as Managing Director of one of our largest regional practices. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he graduated first in his class. In addition to actively participating on the boards of the National Building Museum, the Museum of Design Atlanta, and the Downtown Atlanta Rotary Club, Phil also serves in the Executive Committee for the AIA Large Firm Roundtable and has been honored by the Design Futures Council as a Senior Fellow for his contributions toward the understanding of changing trends, new research, and applied knowledge leading to innovative design models that improve the built environment and the human condition.
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Allison Held
As Chief Marketing Officer, Allison Held crafts and implements a future-oriented strategy for the firm and its clients. She brings a fresh approach, high energy, and a unique perspective to her work that focuses the firm’s core promise to honor the broader goals of society. After receiving her degree in architectural history from Harvard, she continued her design education at the GSD and received a certificate in Culinary Arts before building a career in marketing, business development, and public relations for global design firms. She is committed to the intersection of human health, education, and design and is a passionate advocate in the fight against childhood obesity.
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Ralph Johnson
Ralph's work has been a hallmark of our practice for nearly 30 years. His innovative design and professional achievements have received national and international acclaim. In the past decade alone, his buildings have been celebrated with more than 30 design awards, including five national Honor Awards and more than two dozen regional Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
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Anna Killgore
Anna Killgore is a Marketing Coordinator in the San Francisco office of Perkins+Will, where she supports the office’s multidisciplinary pursuits and promotes its local market presence. Drawn to Perkins+Will by its industry-leading sustainable design practice, she shares the firm’s passionate commitment to environmental advocacy, innovation, and social purpose.
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Lea Anne Leatherwood
In addition to being an Associate, Lea Anne Leatherwood directs the Houston
office’s Sustainable Design Practices Team. In this role, she managed the design and construction of the office's LEED-CI Gold certified interior renovation. Lea Anne works with a variety of clients, managing the production of construction documents from programming and schematic design to bid / negotiation and contract administration
phases and beyond. She has also managed and mentored numerous team members over her 10 years of experience.
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Maria Manion
Maria Manion has worked in the architectural and planning industry for over 15 years, gaining a broad range of experience across multiple disciplines. Building upon her background in architectural marketing communications and design, Maria has recently focused on workplace change communications, assisting a number of our corporate clients with their workplace change strategies.
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Eric Mersmann
Eric is Senior Interior Project Manager at Perkins+Will and is responsible for coordinating the activities of projects and is the day-to-day client contact. He oversees all aspects of a project, from kick-off to finish, and leads the team’s activities. With experience and knowledge in all facets of the project process, Eric brings a pragmatic nature to every project. Eric has been with the firm since 2006.
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Carl Meyer
Carl F. Meyer, FAIA, is a principal at Perkins+Will and an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC’s School of Policy, Planning and Development. As a Principal and leader of the corporate + commercial + civic practice of Perkins+Will in Los Angeles, Carl brings a strong background in major urban mixed-use projects; commercial, community, corporate and institutional facilities; and university projects.
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Danny Mui
Danny is a recent graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology who works as an architect out of our Chicago office. As a student in 2003, Danny participated in the ACE Mentorship Program at Perkins+Will. So inspirational was the program that he is now an ACE mentor himself.
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Rachel Myers
As the Charlotte office's Green Team Leader, Rachel Myers is a passionate advocate for sustainability education, smart commuting, and energy and recycling policies. Rachel also serves on the Operations Task Group of the firm’s Sustainable Design Initiative, which aims to demonstrate exemplary leadership to the industry through the reporting of operational data and related information. Rachel's diverse project experience ranges from the development of design guidelines in higher education to construction administration on projects for major corporations.
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Rachael Oginni
A former associate at the Chicago Tribune in both sales and marketing, Rachael Oginni brings a dynamic content-focused approach to her work. She is also an avid reader and lifelong learner, in addition to an explorer of Chicago's fantastic cultural offerings. She is currently the Knowledge Manager for Perkins+Will’s K12 practice, and holds degrees in Consumer Communications as well as Architectural Preservation.
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Jon Penndorf
Jon Penndorf is a project manager and sustainability leader in Perkins+Will’s Washington, DC office. He is involved in the management and design of a variety of project types, from focused interior renovations to energy management across a full real estate portfolio. Jon is a recipient of the AIA’s Young Architect Award, the 2012 president of the AIA’s DC chapter, and the 2014 chair of the AIA’s Young Architects Forum advisory committee. With over 12 years of professional experience, Jon is engaged in many areas of the architecture community including community leadership, writing, and education.
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Amber Pickett
Amber Pickett has over three years of experience, primarily working for Perkins+Will’s healthcare interiors clients. Professionally, Amber specializes in concept and design development as well as a variety of rendering techniques, but she’s also known for her spot-on restaurant recommendations. A native Texan who was born and raised in Dallas, Amber is heavily involved in her local IIDA and AIA chapters both through events and publications.
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Doug Pierce
With nearly 20 years of architectural experience spanning both corporate and institutional arenas, Doug Pierce contributes diverse planning, technical, and compliance expertise as well as innovative sustainable design ideas to every project. He is deeply passionate about preserving our environmental assets and values opportunities to collaborate with clients on conservation strategies, Energy Design Assistance, and related services.
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Lisa Pool
Serving as the Interior Design Leader for the Minneapolis office, Lisa Pool has been with Perkins+Will for over 16 years. Lisa specializes in large corporate workplace environments, placing strong focus on the client’s needs and project vision while providing innovative programming and space planning solutions that reflect the culture, mission, and financial objectives of the client. Lisa leads her clients and teams with a real passion for collaboration and respect, resulting in positive outcomes for all involved.
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Allen Post
Allen is an architect with over 10 years of project experience, working primarily in the K-12 education group at Perkins+Will. Allen has served as project manager for numerous public and private K-12 schools throughout the South-East and has overseen the certification of three LEED® certified schools. With an interest in modular construction and school design, Allen is also managing the development of Sprout Space, a new high-performance, healthy, and modular classroom that has just been released to the market.
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John Potter
John Potter is an architect in the Toronto office with a deep commitment to Social Responsibility. He is involved in a range of work for our civic, corporate, and commercial clients, from design to innovative project delivery. Outside of Perkins+Will, John is actively involved in teaching, mentoring, and other volunteer activities. He holds a Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Waterloo.
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Jack Pringle
As Managing Director of Perkins+Will's London office, Jack Pringle has run many successful major fit-out and new build projects. He is very experienced in strategic brief taking and assisting clients in understanding the benefits of alternative design solutions. Jack is the past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
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Ryan Quinlan
Ryan is the Digital Content Producer at Perkins+Will and helps develop methods to deliver online content through the firm's extensive network of communications platforms. His interest in urbanization and cities informs the passion he has for communities in both the digital and physical worlds.
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Haley Russell
Haley Russell is an interior designer in Perkins+Will’s Washington, DC office with over five years of experience in the industry, including a range of corporate and government projects with solutions that explore the connection between the human experience and spatial design. Furthering Perkins+Will’s commitment to social purpose and sustainability, Haley is a leader of the DC office’s social responsibility and sustainable design initiatives.
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Bill Schmalz
Bill Schmalz is the technical principal in our Los Angeles office, and co-chair, with Bruce Toman and RK Stewart, of the firmwide Excellence in Execution initiative. He joined the Perkins+Will Chicago office in 1980, and moved to Los Angeles in 1998. His projects include healthcare, education, commercial, research, and transportation projects. Bill is a former chair of the national AIA CCA Knowledge Community.
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Chika Sekiguchi
As a Senior Associate in the Chicago office, Chika brings her entrepreneurial spirit and love of a challenge to everything she does. A graphic designer by training, she has a passion for crafting the look, feel and messages for her clients in their built environments, in print, and online. Chika has been with Perkins+Will since 1999.
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