Who's Who in Architecture

Crome Architecture

85 Bolinas Road, Ste. 17,  Fairfax 94930  415-453-0700  cromearchitecture.com

Max Crome earned his undergraduate architecture degree from the University

of Pennsylvania. After having been a principal with Daniel Macdonald in Novato

and at Fine Design Group in San Francisco, he started the firm as a one-man

business in Fairfax in 2001. He was on the Fairfax Design Review Board for

six years and is a track coach and mentor at Fairfax High School.

Mimi Chen earned her architecture degree with an art minor at Cal Poly San

Luis Obispo. She was an architect at Beverly Prior Architects & Interior,

planned space for corporations in Asia and designed education projects before

joining Crome as an architect in 2003. She managed the firm's breakthrough

national rollout contract for Peet's Coffee & Tea and became a principal

in 2005, handling management, quality assurance and business development.

Other key projects for the 15-person firm with $1.6 million in 2005 billings

has been the Rafael Town Center mixed-use project in downtown San Rafael

and design of store concepts for startups Pumpkin Patch and Giggle.

Jerry Jameson received his bachelor of architecture degree in South Africa

and studied furniture design and Japanese joinery at Parsons School of Design.

He started a New York-based branding firm called Shape Design, incorporating

an advertising agency and point-of-sale display design. He joined Crome in

2004 as design director to further position the firm as a branding specialist

and became managing principal this year.

Devenney Group Architects

1870 El Centro, Napa 94558  707-224-1811  devenneygroup.com

Nick Devenney is principal architect of Devenney Group, a 45-year-old health

care-focused architecture firm based in the Phoenix area. He received his

architecture degree from Arizona State University. He opened an office in

Glendale in 1992, then he launched one in Napa in 2001 to manage medical

center and outpatient clinic projects for Adventist Health in Deer Park and

Clearlake. The firm has four architects in its eight-person Napa office and

had $3 million in billings companywide last year.

Fredric C. Divine Associates

1924 Fourth St., San Rafael 94901  415-457-0220  www.fcda-arch.com

Fredric Divine earned his undergraduate architecture degree with honors from

UC Berkeley in 1970 and started his firm in 1977. His nine-person firm with

three architects focuses on North Bay multifamily, nonprofit organization,

residential, restaurant and retail projects. In 2005, the firm had $1.8 million

in billings.

Mr. Divine has participated on the Fairfax Planning Commission and Design

Review Board, San Rafael Downtown Vision, San Rafael Downtown Advisors, St.

Vincents/Silveira task force and the San Rafael Homelessness Advisory Board.

Ferrari-Moe

55 Shaver St., Ste. 300, San Rafael 94901  415-458-3511  ferrari-moe.com

John Moe and structural engineer Brett Ferrari started the firm in 1999.

Mr. Moe received his undergraduate architecture degree from the University

of Idaho at Moscow in 1975 and started work that year as a mechanical engineer

with Vandament Engineering in Mill Valley. For the next three years, he was

back in architecture with firms on the Peninsula. In 1981, with a general

contractor's license, he started Design & Construction Phase and maintains

his contractor's license.

In 1984, he joined Rosenberg McGinnis AIA in San Francisco as partner and

met Mr. Ferrari, also a principal. He also met senior associate architect

Nadia Anis, who joined the newly formed Ferrari-Moe as a project architect

and became a partner in 2001. She received her undergraduate architectural

engineering degree from Cairo University in Egypt in 1980 and her graduate

architecture and urban design degree from Washington University at St. Louis.

With backgrounds in structural engineering, general contracting and architecture,

Ferrari-Moe specializes in waterproofing and remedial repair design on all

sizes of residential and commercial buildings. With the firm's experience

with investigating existing conditions, the principals are called on as expert

witnesses in construction-defect litigation.

The Fifth Resource

710 McDonald Ave., Santa Rosa 95404  707-527-0186  fifthresource.com

Principal architect and President Ed Sohl formed the company in 1994 with

industrial engineer and corporate facilities planner Jim Ford, whose projects

included North Bay campuses for Optical Coating Laboratory, Tegal and Motorola.

Mr. Sohl received his undergraduate architecture degree with honors from

Arizona State University in 1974 and completed his internship with Larry

Simons in Santa Rosa. In 1979, he and Michael Palmer formed Sohl & Palmer

in Santa Rosa.

Mr. Sohl was president of the Redwood Empire chapter of the AIA and served

on the organization's committees to bring the AIA's Rural and Urban Design

Assistance Team to Healdsburg and Santa Rosa.

Glass Architects

200 E St., Santa Rosa 95404  707-544-3920  glassarchitects.com

Eric Glass is president and principal architect of Glass Architects, founded

in 1994 when he acquired full ownership of Roland Miller Associates and changed

the name. He received his bachelor of architecture degree from Cal Poly San

Luis Obispo in 1974, joined Roland Miller in 1976 and became a partner in

1987.

Notable projects he was directly involved with include the new Empire College

building with Sonoma County courtrooms, Finley Community & Aquatic Center

in Santa Rosa and Dorothy Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park.

Mr. Glass is an oral exam commissioner for the state Board of Architectural

Examiners. He used to be president of the Redwood Empire chapter of the AIA,

a director of the organization's state council and a member of the Sebastopol

Design Review Board.

Hall & Bartley Architecture & Planning

4701 Old Redwood Highway, Santa Rosa 95403  707-544-1642

Andy Hall and Scott Bartley formed the six-person, three-architect firm in

1983 when Richard Keith retired and sold the assets of Keith & Associates

in Santa Rosa to them. Mr. Hall and Mr. Bartley started work at Keith in

1978 and have focused on wine-related, custom residential, commercial and

school projects. They received undergraduate architecture degrees from Cal

Poly San Luis Obispo.

Mr. Bartley is chairman of the Santa Rosa Planning Commission, was on the

city's mid-rise policy subcommittee and sits on the Courthouse Square Unification

Committee. He was on the city Design Review Board for 10 years.

Mr. Hall is secretary for the Redwood Empire Kiwanis Club and has served

in leadership groups for St. Eugene's School and Cardinal Newman High School.

Hedgpeth Architects

2321 Bethards Drive, Ste. B, Santa Rosa 95405  707-523-7010  hedgpetharchitects.com

Principal and Design Director Warren Hedgpeth was licensed and started his

firm in 1983 after four years with noted Sebastopol-based custom-home designer

David Kingwill and a year with M. George Lawry in Santa Rosa in 1978. Mr.

Hedgpeth received a bachelor professional degree in science and arts from

the University of Oregon in 1977 and practiced in Portland, Ore.

The firm billed $1.6 million in 2005 and has six architects and two staff.

In early October, the firm will be making a three-fold expansion downtown

to The Terraces at 90 E St. to allow for more intern architects and to be

more centrally located to City Hall and infill projects nearby, Mr. Hedgpeth

said.

Kellogg + Associates

50 Santa Rosa Ave., Ste. 400, Santa Rosa 95404  707-570-1160

In 2002, Kevin Kellogg and his architect wife Beth Farley, also business

manager, started the firm, which specializes in urban mixed-use and infill

development, affordable housing and schools. The nine-person firm has three

architects and $1.3 million in billings last year. Key projects include downtown

Santa Rosa mid-rises for the late Raj Gulati at 433 Riley St. and the site

of the Traverso's store.

Mr. Kellogg and Ms. Farley received their undergraduate architecture degrees

from Arizona State University in 1984, and he earned his master of urban

design degree from Harvard University in 1990. In the 1980s, they worked

as designers at Arizona-based architecture firm Antoine Predock.

Mr. Kellogg worked at a few other firms then came to Axia Architects in Santa

Rosa in 1998. In 2001 he left as a principal. He is a member of the Santa

Rosa Main Street Design Committee and on the Sebastopol Planning Commission.

Knight Wagner Architecture

811 Third St., Santa Rosa 95404  707-528-4044  kwarchitecture.com

William Knight received a bachelor of architecture degree from Stanford University

and started practicing in Santa Rosa in 1968. In 1980, he went out on his

own and hired Jerry Wagner as a project architect. Mr. Wagner became a partner

in 1987 and is president of the firm.

In the 1990s, Mr. Wagner served in a number of local government and civic

posts, including Santa Rosa mayor and councilman, Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce

vice president and director and Sonoma County Transportation Authority director.

These days, he's an oral examiner for the California Architects Board and

works with the Sacramento-based Local Government Commission for livable communities

and with the League of California Cities.

Mr. Wagner received an undergraduate art degree from Williams College and

a master of architecture diploma from Yale University. His professional interest

is in multifamily housing, especially in achieving successful high-density

projects in urban core areas, and he has helped the City of Santa Rosa craft

development guidelines. He serves as a director of the Community Media Center

of Santa Rosa and works with the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern

California and the AIA Design for Aging Network.

At the end of this year, Mr. Knight and Mr. Wagner plan to wind down the

firm and retire. "After 38 years, I have had enough, although I know it is

going to be difficult stepping back from our efforts to rebuild downtown,"

Mr. Knight said.

Lail Design Group

1505 Main St., St. Helena 94574  707-963-1565  laildesign.com

Jon Lail is executive principal and CFO and founded the firm in 1985, but

his interior design background goes back to the 1960s. One of Mr. Lail's

key projects was George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in 1980.

The 10-person firm has four architects, had $1.6 million in billings last

year and is known for designing winery, wine caves, custom homes and commercial

buildings, especially restaurants. Key projects now are Plumpjack Winery's

$12 million Cade Winery near Angwin and the Halls' $75 million St. Helena

winery.

Principal architect and CEO Doug Osborn joined the firm in 1995 and leads

winery and wine-cave design, including Vineyard 29 and Laird Family Winery.

He graduated with a bachelor of architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis

Obispo in 1988 and has been licensed since 1996.

Principal architect and President Paul Kelley started with the firm in 1997

and is the primary designer of historic preservation and restaurant projects,

including the French Laundry renovation in Yountville and the master plan

for Stanly Ranch south of Napa. He served on the Napa Cultural Heritage Commission

from 2001 until July of this year. Mr. Kelley has been licensed since 1994.

Greg LeDoux & Associates

48 W. Sierra Ave., Cotati 94931  707-795-8855

Greg LeDoux received his undergraduate architecture degree with high honors

from UC Berkeley in 1975 and worked for Marin County architect Ron Glander

until going out on his own in 1981. He has been a member of the Cotati Design

Review Committee since September.

MacRae Architects

825 Gravenstein Highway N., Ste. 6, Sebastopol 95472  707-823-0849  macraearchitects.com

Richard MacRae has been focused on winery design throughout his 33-year career.

He received an undergraduate architectural science degree from Cal Poly San

Luis Obispo and went to work for Keith & Associates in Santa Rosa in

1973, managing projects such as Jordan Vineyards near Healdsburg.

Three years later, he went into private practice in Sebastopol and included

residential and commercial projects. In 2001, he incorporated and added his

son, Sean MacRae, as a principal architect.

Recent projects include Town Green Village in Windsor and several wineries.

Richard MacRae also is a licensed general contractor.

MCA Architecture Planning Interiors

855 Bordeaux Way, Ste. 260, Napa 94558  707-261-1500  napavalleyarchitect.com

Stephen Cuddy formed MCA in 1982 with the late Daniel McAuliffe. Mr. Cuddy

received his undergraduate architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

in 1976 and was project manager for a few firms. MCA has three architects,

an interior designer and 11 total employees. Billings last year were nearly

$1 million.

Mr. Cuddy has been heavily involved in Napa Valley land-use policy and historical

preservation. He is on the steering committee for the county General Plan

update, sits on the City of Napa's Development Advisory Committee and is

a member of the county landmark Preservation Action Committee. Key current

projects include CDI Development's $8.5 million Napa Square project.

Robert Moore, Architect

1000 King St., Santa Rosa 95404  707-578-8152

Robert Moore leads a five-person, three-architect firm he started in 1987.

He was an architect for Simons & Brecht and then joined Sohl & Palmer.

His firm specializes in commercial projects, including many in Windsor, and

the largest current project is a $4 million clubhouse and gymnasium for the

St. Helena Boys & Girls Club. He was public relations director for the

Redwood Empire chapter of the AIA and sat on the Sonoma County Design Review

Board.

Donald K. Olsen, AIA & Associates

666 Bridgeway, Sausalito 94965  415-332-0297  dkoarchitects.com

Don Olsen started the six-person firm, which has four architects, in 1963.

It had $1.18 million in 2005 billings for mostly Marin County projects.

Polsky-Perlstein Architects

469 Magnolia Ave., Ste. B, Larkspur 94939  415-927-1156  polskyarchitects.com

Larkspur resident and avid traveler Jared Polsky started the firm as Jared

Polsky & Associates in 1982, five years after he received his master

of architecture degree from UC Berkeley. He earned an undergraduate degree

in fine arts and math at Brandeis University in 1973. Today, Polsky Perlstein

has eight people and five architects and had $1.6 million in billings last

year.

Corte Madera resident and amateur jazz singer Richard Perlstein joined the

firm in 1989, focusing on custom homes and commercial design. He graduated

from MIT in 1978 with a bachelor of science degree in art and design and

received a master's in architecture from UC Berkeley in 1981. After that,

he worked at Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz, Jordan Casper Woodman Dobson, Tai Associates

Architects and George Miers Associates.

Quattrocchi Kwok Architects

636 Fifth St., Santa Rosa 95404  707-576-0829  qka.com

Mark Quattrocchi is president and founder of the 40-person firm he started

in 1986. Quattrocchi Kwok is the third-largest North Bay-based architectural

firm with $7.3 million in billings last year and 19 architects. It specializes

in educational and commercial facilities.

Mr. Quattrocchi has bachelor and master of architecture degrees from UC Berkeley.

He studied energy conservation in institutional and commercial buildings

as a senior research associate in the Passive Solar Group at Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory and has had papers published on energy-conscious design.

He has been president of the Redwood Empire chapter of the AIA.

Steven Kwok became a principal in 1991 and has shared his experience in construction

and contract administration for public projects with the County Schools Facilities

Consortia on Design and Construction. He was a director for the AIA's Redwood

Empire chapter.

RHL Design Group

1137 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma 94954  707-765-1660  rhldesign.com

John Johnson, John Hicks and Brian Zita are the principal architects for

the largest North Bay architectural firm with 71 employees, 13 architects

and $16.4 million in billings last year. The firm's specialties are retail,

corporate image and interior design projects for major companies, including

Chevron and McDonald's.

RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture

18294 Sonoma Highway, Sonoma 95476  707-996-8448  rdcarchitecture.com

Michael Ross, Charles Drulis and Malorie Cusenbery are the principals of

the North Bay's fifth-largest firm with $2.9 million in 2005 billings, 11

architects and a total of 22 employees.

Russell & Davis Architects

739 A St., Ste. B, San Rafael 94901  415-256-8001  rdarchitects.com

Colin Russell and Larry Davis combined each of their three decades of experience

in 1998 to form Russell & Davis, a 13-person firm with three architects

and $2.3 million in billings in 2005. The firm focuses on retail, restaurants,

custom home, multifamily, mixed-use, office, land planning and interior design

projects. Recent Russell & Davis projects include a branch for Tamalpais

Bank in Corte Madera and a major renovation of Redwood Plaza Shopping Center

in Napa.

Del Starrett, Architect

201 Concourse Blvd., Ste. A, Santa Rosa CA 95403  707-526-9645  archstarrett.com

Del Starrett started his firm in 1987, focusing on wine-related, retail and

hospitality projects in north Santa Rosa and Windsor. The firm has designed

30 buildings in the Airport Business Center near Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma

County Airport, including office and industrial buildings for the developers

and several facilities for Jackson Wine Estates. The group also has designed

25 buildings in Windsor, including the Shiloh Center regional mall and the

300,000-square-foot Beam Wine Estates warehouse.

Mr. Starrett graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1978 and spent the

next eight and a half years with local architectural legend Larry Simons,

first as a draftsman at Lawrence Simons & Associates and lastly as manager

of the architectural division of Simons & Brecht.

He sits on the Sonoma County Airport Commission, is a frequent alternate

for the Sonoma County Design Review Board and was president of the Redwood

Empire chapter of the AIA. He has lent his skills on mission trips to Central

America and designed the new Windsor Boys & Girls Club gym.

Sutton Suzuki Architects

39 Forrest St., Mill Valley 94941  415-383-3139  suttonsuzukiarchitects.com

Elizabeth Klinke Suzuki and Ron Sutton are principals of the North Bay's

eighth-largest architecture firm with $2.5 million in 2005 billings, six

architects and nine staff members focused on custom home and office projects.

She has a bachelor of science degree in design from the University of Cincinnati

and 17 years of experience. He has a bachelor of architecture degree from

North Dakota State University, a background in construction and is registered

in Hawaii as well as California.

Tierney/Figueiredo Architects

817 Russell Ave., Ste. H, Santa Rosa 95403  707-576-1557  tfarch.com

Jerold Tierney started the firm under his own name in 1980 and added Randy

Figueiredo in 1990. The firm billed $1.5 million in work in 2005. The partners

and staff of seven, with three architects, also have acted as owner and developer

of commercial and residential projects. Mr. Tierney serves on the Salvation

Army Advisory Board and has sat on the Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory Commission

and the Sonoma County Design Review Board. Mr. Figueiredo received his bachelor

of architecture degree from Cal Poly in 1983 and has an Americans With Disabilities

Act certification.

TLCD Architecture

111 Santa Rosa Ave., Ste. 300, Santa Rosa 95404  707-525-5600  tlcd.com

The initials TLCD stand for Tomasi Lawry Coker DeSilva and represent the

firm's 41-year history. Don Tomasi, Alan Butler and Robert Henley are senior

principals of TLCD, the North Bay's second-largest architecture firm with

$12.5 million in 2005 billings as well as 27 architects and 67 total employees

in Santa Rosa and Fairfield offices. Two large recent projects are Santa

Rosa Junior College's new $34 million library and Kaiser Permanente's $140

million Santa Rosa campus expansion.

Mr. Tomasi leads the firm's higher-education and health care groups. He started

as a janitor at his father's firm, Fruiht & Tomasi Architects, in high

school in the mid-1970s. He received his master of architecture degree from

the University of Washington in 1982 and became a partner of what became

Tomasi Architects in 1984.

Mr. Butler is president of the firm and leader of the group for kindergarten

to high school projects. He has a U.S. Green Building Council certification

and earned a master of architecture degree from the University of Oregon

in 1985. He joined Lawry Coker DeSiva that year and became a partner in 1993

when Tom Tomasi and M. George Lawry retired and their firms merged.

Mr. Henley has managed the Fairfield office since he launched it in 1992.

He had his own firm in the early 1980s and studied architecture at UC Berkeley

in 1997.

TWM Architects & Planners

181 Carlos Drive, San Rafael 94903  415-472-5770  twmarchitects.com

Allen Cristofani, Derek Dutton and Robert Wright are principal architects

of the 14-person firm, which dates back to the 1960s. It now has five architects

and had $2.3 million in billings last year.

Mr. Cristofani received an associate's degree in art from City College of

San Francisco in 1962, a certificate in landscape architecture from UC Berkeley

and licenses in both architecture and landscape architecture. He joined Karl

Treffinger & Associates in 1969 and became a TWM principal in 1979.

Mr. Dutton received an undergraduate architecture degree from UC Berkeley

in 1983 and a master's in architecture from Rice University in 1987. He also

has a U.S. Green Building Council certification. He joined TWM in 1991 and

became a principal in 1998.

Mr. Wright, who manages the office and handles design for major projects,

joined the firm in 1980 and became a principal in 1989. He received a bachelor

of architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1974.

Valley Architects

1560 Railroad Ave., St. Helena 94574  707-963-1466  valleyarchitects.com

Bill Bylund and Tom Faherty are principal architects of a firm with four

architects, a total staff of eight, billings of $1.5 million and a reputation

for wine-related, government, hospitality, commercial and custom-residential

projects.

Weir/Andrewson Associates

990 A St., Ste. K, San Rafael 94901  415-485-9797  waassoc.com

Architect and civil engineer Paul Weir teamed with civil and structural engineer

Roy Andrewson to form the firm in 1995. It has 18 employees and five architects

and had $1.5 million in billings last year. The firm specializes in designing

water- and fire-resistant structures, investigating building failures and

remedial work needed and providing litigation support.

The other principal of the firm is Jack Kemp, who received his master's and

doctoral degrees in architecture from UC Berkeley in 1969 and 1971, respectively.

Wix Architecture

2469 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa 95403  707-576-7766  wixaia.com

Henry Wix started his seven-person firm in 1995 after a number of years working

for local contractors and architects, including David Kingwill and Sohl &

Palmer. His firm specializes in tenant improvements.