Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects Bio:
Mark Cavagnero Associates is a San Francisco based architecture firm focused on cultural, education, and civic projects. Since its establish-ment in 1988, the firm has completed a wide range of architectural and master planning projects, including large and small scale institutional, non-profit, commercial, and residential projects. The firm provides a full range of services, from programming, master planning, site planning and conceptual design, through construction documents and administration.
Mark Cavagnero Associates' design process begins with a careful investigation of the client's goals and the project site. These conditions generate all following steps. As a result, the qualities of program and site specificity, rather than pre-assumed tendencies, unify the firm's portfolio. The firm welcomes the constraints of program, site, and budget as frameworks within which to create engaging architectural spaces. It is in the focused response to these project elements that the essential character of each project finds its voice. The purity of response—in form, material, and relationsip to light and context—is always the firm's goal. |
Bryce Grubbs and Eli Schwartz, both seniors at Marin Academy, in San Rafael, Ca, are using their final three weeks of school to explore the career of Architecture and design. Both students of Winston Chou's Architecture and Technology class, Grubbs and Schwartz are interning at Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects, a highly-regarded firm, located in the financial District of San Francisco. The two young men will work to understand the various roles in a firm such as Cavagnero's, as well as the impact that the firm and their projects play in the greater community of the city.