People & Culture
"Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
We believe that the creation of a supportive office culture in which each of us can continue to grow and learn creates the best platform to do great, innovative work.
Adam Mayer
AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Alan Kim
Alex Pun
Alexandra Bair
AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Alfred Chan
Alfred To
Alice Crumeyrolle
RA
Allen Cheng
AIA, LEED BD+C
Amaory Portorreal
Amar Sen
Andrew Oberst
Anita Helfrich
Ankur Verma
LEED GA
Anthony Prograis
Antonio Donofrio
AIA
Ashley Murphy
AIA
Ashton Kidd
Bianca Rescalvo
Bin Feng
LEED AP BC+C
Birgitta Bjornsson
Blaine Campbell
LEED AP
Blake Middleton
FAIA, LEED AP
Brittany Gray
Carolina Clemente
Caroline Marquez-Ortiz
Celia Chiang
Charles Thornton
Chenxue Wang
Chris Taurasi
AIA
Christine Kim
Chun Hsu
Cianne Oconer
Clyde Chen
Cristobal Canas
Dahmahlee Lawrence
AIA, LEED AP
Danielle Chao
David Kilpatrick
AIA
David Margolis
RA
David Pysh
David Sakumoto
David Woshinsky
LEED AP
Deborah Moelis
AIA, CPHD
Devon Aerts
Dincer Savaskan
AIA
Drew Seyl
Edward Tachibana
Elga Killinger
AIA
Elizabeth Kaida
Emil Stojakovic
AIA
Eric Suntup
Eric Tan
AIA
Esteban Penzo
Eugene Kao
LEED AP BD+C
Eunjoo Byeon
Eva Valdecantos
Fei-Fei Zhao
Frank Fusaro
AIA
Gary Handel
FAIA
Gerald Sams
Gilad Reichenberg
Glenn Rescalvo
FAIA
Ha Lim Lee
Hannah Bruns
Harriet Chang
RA
Helen Kim
Honyi Wang
AIA
Hsin-Yin Tu
Huang-Yuan Chen
Huizhong Sun
Hyungjoon Kim
Ignacio Iratchet
Irem Bugdayci
Isabel Oyuela-Bonzani
Isabel Solomon
James Hakes
AIA
Jason Ivaliotis
AIA
Jenny Kwon
Jessica Levine
Jessica Vass
Jing-Jing Zhao
John Dalit
John Hsu
John Ishihara
Jonathan Kinsley
Jonathan Morefield
Joongkoum Kim
Jorge Valcarcel
LEED BD+C
Joseph Hongsuk Kim
Joshua Caluag
Josue Salguero
Juhyun Kim
Julia Leister
Kai-Yu Yu
Katie Donahue
LEED GA, NCARB
Katie Wilson
Keith Lagreze
AIA
Kelli Collins
Kentaro Tsuboi
LEED AP
Kevin Hall
Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Samuels
Krista Armstrong
AIA
Ku Hun Chung
Leo Mulvehill
AIA
Lexi Prior
Libby Farley
AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Louis Koehl
AIA
Malay Shah
LEED AP
Margaret Albanese
Mari Kroin
Maria Mercedes
Maria Stanciu
Mariana Ricondo
Mat Leung
Matthew Berglund
AIA, LEED AP
Matthew Breau
Matthew Lawton
Mavis Liu
Maxime Boileu
Meari Kim
Mel Sage
Melissa Pezzello
Michael Arad
AIA, LEED AP
Mikel Ruiz
Mikhail Kim
Mindy Shields
LEED AP
Moshe Porter
Nathalia Camacho
Nathan Ellenberger
Naveed Namaky
Nick Dyer
Nicky Wedderburn-Williams
Nicolas Nefiodow
Nicole Kim
Noelia Ibanez
ASID
Nubia Garcia
Olivia Greene
Paul Campoverde
Paul Cheng
Paul Lenke
Pierre Kuhn
Ping Hsieh
PJ Ross
AIA, LEED AP BD + C
Quoc Nguyen
Rachel Kallicharan
Raymond Lechase
LEED GA
Rennain Garnes
Richard Felix-Ashman
AIA
Rick Kearns
Robin Zhang
LEED AP BD+C
Rocky Stilson
Roger Lei
Ryan Duncan
Ryan Lobello
Sang-Youp Lee
Sara Schwartz
Sarah Smith
Selina Kwan
Serena Ye
Seth Riseman
Shima Miabadi
Shridhuli Solanki
Shuang Bao
Shujian Jian
AIA, LEED BD+C
Stefan Di Leo
Stefan Schwartz
Stephen Kirkish
AIA, LEED AP
Stephen Matkovits
AIA, LEED AP
Stephen Sheng
AIA, LEED AP
Steven Palomo
Sunghyun Park
Tamara Hinojosa
Tansy Mak
AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Thitinart Kaochim
Thomas Florkewicz
RA
Tong Xiao
Wayne Erb
Wei Wang
Wen Yang
Young Joo Kim
AIA
Zach Beale
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Different kinds of beer served this year at the weekly Friday happy hour
18
Cases of vertigo using the Virtual Reality machine
32
Interns this year
12
Volunteer projects so far in 2018
8
Different sports teams in four offices
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Sports team championships
Around the Offices
Mentorship mixer party, October 2017.
AIASF Bay Area Young Architects March Firm Tour, 2018
Iron Chef party, February 2017
Festive ugly sweater day, December 2017.
Sandcastle competition, October 2016
Holiday Party, December 2016
Summer party, 2015
The Whiteboard Groups
The Whiteboard Groups are employee-led common interest groups within Handel Architects. Anyone can start one and everyone is encouraged to participate. These groups encourage a cross-pollination of ideas through both intellectual and social meet-ups. They also serve as a platform to impact the way our offices are run. Active Whiteboard Groups include:
- Computational Design
- Continuing Education
- Diversity in Architecture
- Emerging Façade Technologies
- Events and Presentations
- Model Shop
- Process Engineering
- Professional Development + Mentorship
- Revit User Group
- Sports
- Sustainability
- Visualization
Developing the "Whole Architect"
We believe that by fostering individual growth within a supportive office culture, we can achieve more collectively.
We have developed a goals based-method to expose everybody to as broad a spectrum of the design process as possible, from early conceptual exercises to construction documentation and administration.
Outside the office
We encourage our employees to participate in a variety of social functions, sports leagues, volunteer programs, and industry events. We believe that an active, engaged team will get along better and ultimately create better work.