Quattrocchi Kwok Architects (QKA), a leading education planning and design firm serving Northern California and the Rocky Mountains, is opening a Colorado office at 610 Jerry Street in Castle Rock. Headquartered in Santa Rosa, California and operating an East Bay Area office in Oakland, the nearly 80-person firm now has three employees in Colorado who will support projects across the company and look to build a strategic pipeline of opportunities in the region. The office will be led by Studio Director Joel Williams and he is joined by new Project Designers Joseph Puyot and Spencer Robinson.
Joining QKA in 2020, Williams has more than 18 years of experience in education design, from small classroom renovations to large-scale campus master planning projects. With a leadership style rooted in collaboration and communication, he will build on his established client and partner relationships to grow QKA’s presence in the Rocky Mountains. Williams is a LEED Accredited Professional and an Accredited Learning Environments Planner (ALEP) through the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE), where he is active in its Rocky Mountain chapter.
Puyot and Robinson both join QKA as project designers and bring more than a decade of design experience across industries. Puyot has managed the design of hospitality, residential and education projects through all phases from pre-design through construction administration. He has particular technical expertise in the area of accessibility compliance, ensuring projects meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. Robinson’s design, documentation and project management experience includes large-scale government and civic projects. He has also managed teams working on several education projects with an emphasis on sustainable design…