higher education

DLR Group

DLR Group is an integrated design firm. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. With offices around the globe housing specialized design expertise, your integrated design team is backed by the more than 1,200+ design professionals and the resources of the entire firm. Core areas of design expertise include Civic, Courts, Detention, Energy Services, Federal Markets, Higher Education, Hospitality, Housing, K-12 Education, Museums, Performing Arts, Retail/Mixed-Use, Sports, and Workplace. DLR Group is a passionate advocate for sustainable design. We are an early adopter of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, and an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment and the China Accord.

KDA Architects

KdA is a boutique-sized firm with an established reputation of applying artfully conceived and research-based solutions to our clients’ projects, combining technical expertise with inspired and enduring design.

The firm’s portfolio ranges in scale from civic institutions to detailed custom homes and furniture. In every project, emphasizing a meaningful connection to place, the optimal selection of materials, common-sense sustainability, and a strong visual presence.

Kevin deFreitas, FAIA | Principal

JCJ Architecture

JCJ Architecture is a diverse planning, architecture and interior design practice that offers comprehensive services to clients in the public and private sector. Our engaged design process brings together our experience as professionals with a methodology of active and alert advocacy. Balancing owner/client goals, functional objectives and physical context alongside project scope, constraints and opportunities, we strive to resolve and manifest project qualities into built form.

he firm's portfolio of experience, comprehensive services and collective knowledge are captured in two overall categories – commercial (gaming, entertainment, hospitality, hotel, retail, workplace) and institutional (K12 education, higher education, civic, community, arts & culture, public safety/justice). 

Pacific Cornerstone Architects

Pacific Cornerstone Architects Inc. (PCA) is a full-service design firm offering integrated design services to our clients since 1994. PCA offers planning, architecture, interior design, and sustainable design services to a diverse base of clients in all areas of architecture.

PCA is regarded for strength in design, development, entitlement, and the approval process. We strive to develop creative solutions that simultaneously consider program, market, and codes, with context to provide sensitive and environmentally conscious designs.

Sprotte + Watson

Our passion and strength? Creating sustainable learning environments based on your specific program needs and goals. For the last 22 years, Sprotte+Watson’s architectural solutions for education not only support the curriculum needs of today, they’re designed to meet a wide-open future of unknown possibilities. Through the use of adaptive space, integrated with the latest technology, we create powerful, flexible learning environments. The results? Greater levels of learning, stimulating, healthier educational environments, and lower operational costs. All based on S+W’s core values: responsive architecture that enriches educators and learners, while enhancing and protecting the natural environment.

M.W Steele Group

M.W Steele Group

As an award-winning architecture & planning firm, M.W. Steele Group’s portfolio reflects a vision built upon our clients’ needs and our extensive experience. With projects based around the world, we are best known for the contextual quality of our work and the level of sensitivity to site evident in each completed project. We are also recognized for design and planning that is simultaneously innovative and based in reality. Our staff of professionals includes architects, certified planners, and urban designers.

PGAL

PGAL

Legacy. Design. Service. Founded in 1946, PGAL is an international design firm specializing in architecture, interiors, engineering, and planning for a diverse portfolio of public and private sector clients.

Studio E Architecture

Studio E Architecture

Based in San Diego, California, the firm works throughout the Southwestern United States and has built a varied body of work ranging from private residences to affordable housing, mixed-use, civic, and urban planning projects. The firm has received numerous design awards, including three National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards. The California Council of the American Institute of Architects named Studio E one of California's Emerging Talents in 1999. Studio E's collaborative approach extends to its successful use of client and community workshops in the design process. The work of the office is noted for its understanding of place, its authenticity and its inventive optimism.