Women in Architecture & Design
Women at the Helm Across Our Practice
Transformative Projects
Interior Designer Hannah Straus helped bring Turf Design’s Experience Center to life in downtown Chicago, a workplace, showroom, and event space custom-designed with their product: artful acoustics for welcoming spaces.
Yunnan Allen, Kate Diamond, Valerie DeLoach, Adeline Morin and Susan Suhar led a design solution that engages the public through educational experiences, prioritizes employee well-being and returns value for public investment with cost-conscious, sustainability goals.
Valerie DeLoach's expertise helped enable an existing furniture showroom at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood to transform into an environment equipped with new, light-filled laboratories, clean rooms and offices to support the latest advancements in medicine.
Industry Experts: From Design Conceptualization to Project Delivery
Expanding the Practice: Winning Work and Elevating Brand Awareness
Local Office Leadership
Marnie champions collaboration among a multidisciplinary team of architects, planners, interior designers and landscape architects to deliver inspired places and spaces in Seattle and beyond in the Pacific Northwest.
April leads by example to help her team meet their personal and professional goals while producing designs that improve communities. Her wide breadth of knowledge and keen design sensibilities enable her to orchestrate all team components.
Known for her inclusive, people-focused leadership style and commitment to design excellence, Huai is passionate about innovating across disciplines to solve clients’ complex, multifaceted challenges and delivering projects that generate positive social impact alongside clients and partners.
With a deep admiration for design and how it contributes to creating spaces that inspire and delight, Elizabeth is particularly interested in synthesizing a building’s context with its programmatic needs to connect to its surroundings and foster interaction and collaboration.
With over 20 years of experience, Yvonne leads complex healthcare projects from new builds to phased renovations. Her expertise across architecture and management guides the way for projects to be delivered efficiently, meet budget and schedule, while upholding design and operational excellence.
Grace delivers design excellence and technical quality to our clients in Chicago and beyond, and has a particular interest in how public-private partnership and interdisciplinary collaboration can help create meaningful spaces and experiences that often defy traditional building or landscape typologies.
Visionary Women Celebrated for Career Achievements
Sally Lee, an education and science associate principal based in Manhattan, was named to Building Design + Construction’s 40 under 40 Class of 2023, for her career achievements, passion for the design profession, involvement with industry organizations and service to her community.
Jill Bergman, a senior health strategist based in San Francisco, was elevated to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows, one of AIA's highest distinctions, for her excellence in work and contributions to architecture and society at large.
Melissa Moseley, a senior interior designer based in Virginia, was elevated to the American Society of Interior Designers’ College of Fellows, the highest honor bestowed on less than 1% of ASID membership, for embodying the organization’s core values of advocacy, community, design excellence and thought leadership.