Our People
Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA
Principal
Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA, is a founding Principal of Arquitectonica. He studied architecture and urban planning at Princeton University and received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he later taught. He first came to Miami in 1975 to teach at the University of Miami. By 1977 he founded Arquitectonica with a group of young architects and set up a studio in Coconut Grove. Within two years Arquitectonica’s work was appearing in magazines around the world. Today Arquitectonica has designed buildings in forty countries from eleven offices around the world.
Mr. Fort-Brescia’s designs have won more than a hundred design awards. His work has been featured in three thousand national and international publications, and been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Fort-Brescia is the recipient of the 1996 AIA Florida Honor for Design Award and the 1998 AIA Silver Medal for Design Excellence. He was honored as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1992 and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1999. Mr. Fort-Brescia was honored by the Salvadori Center in New York with the 2000 Founder’s Award.
Laurinda Spear, FAIA, ASLA
Principal
Laurinda Spear is a founding principal of Arquitectonica. She studied fine arts at Brown University, received her Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and later a Master of Landscape Architecture from Florida International University. She has taught at Harvard and the University of Miami.
Laurinda designed many of the firm’s signature projects, and her designs have won over a hundred design awards. She was also instrumental in the expansion of Arquitectonica into design fields beyond architecture and planning. She first established the interior design practice, ArquitectonicaInteriors, which earned the firm its place in the Interior Design Hall of Fame. She also created the design products group, Laurinda Spear Products, which has over 150 products on the market under dozens of global brands.
Laurinda established the landscape architecture practice ArquitectonicaGEO, focusing on environmental land planning and landscape design.
Laurinda is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a LEED Accredited Professional. She is the recipient of the AIA Silver Medal and the Rome Prize in Architecture. Laurinda is active in community affairs and sits on the Board of Architecture and Arts at Florida International University, as well as the board of the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
Leadership
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Timothy Reedy – Chief Executive Officer Jorge Jimenez – Chief Financial Officer Sherri Gutierrez, AIA, LEED AP – Miami Office Director Samuel Luckino, AIA, LEED AP – New York Office Director John Conley, AIA – Los Angeles Office Director Peter Brannan – Hong Kong Office Director Raymond Chu – Shanghai Office Director Washington Fiuza – Sao Paulo Office Director Enrique Chuy – Lima Office Director Yves Berranger, DPLG – Paris Office Director David Zaballero – Manila Office Director |
Sergio S. Bakas, AIA, CSI, LEED AP – Senior Vice President Anne Cotter, AIA, LEED AP – Vice President John Curtis, AIA – Vice President Nan Doelling, AIA – Vice President Alejandro Gonzalez, AIA, LEED AP – Vice President Katia Robreno – Vice President Edward Leyva, AIA, LEED AP – Vice President Alfonso Jurado, AIA, LEED AP – Vice President Jooyeol Oh, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP – Vice President |
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