designer  |  associate AIA  |  rita.saikali at gmail.com

professional experience

09.2011 - present   |   HMC Architects. Ontario, CA | design leader

12.2010 - 09.2011  |   Pfeiffer Partners Architects. New York, NY | intermediate designer

09.2009 -09.2011   |   Architecture for Humanity New York. New York, NY | director of outreach & advocacy

09.2008 - 12.2010  |   Samoo Architecture PC. New York, NY | intermediate designer

08.2005 - 05.2007  |   HMC Architects. Ontario, CA | junior designer

02.2003 - 06.2005  |   Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, CA | master planner & designer

09.2000 - 08.2006  |   Donald L. Davidson. Studio City, CA | drafting consultant

02.1998 - 12.2000  |   Habitant Development Corporation. City of Industry, CA | cad operations manager

academic experience

2011   |   Center for Architecture Foundation, Design Expo IS 220 | guest design critic

2011   |   Pratt Interior Design Graduate Studio | guest design critic

2010   |   Parsons The New School of Design, Continuing Education | guest design critic

2009   |   Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Design Directions | guest design critic

2008   |   Parsons Pre-College Academy, Architecture Studio. New York, NY | teaching assistant

2008   |   Stickballs Print Media Arts. New York, NY | teaching artist, architecture studio

2007   |   College Bound. Los Angeles, CA | sustainable design project facilitator, eighth grade

education

2008   |   Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation | MS AAD | class representative

2005   |   California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | BArch | AIAS president ’04 | TSD president ’05

affiliations

2010   |   FlyNY, kite design competition, showcase, and fundraiser. New York, NY | director

2010   |   Young Social Women Entrepreneurs, GOOD design panel discussion. New York, NY | invited panelist

2010   |   Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. New York, NY | invited judge

2009-2010   |   Hoops 4 Hope. New York, NY and Cape Town, South Africa | lead designer

2009-2010   |   Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Teen Design Fair. New York, NY | invited designer

2009   |   Pioneers of Change, exhibit on Governor’s Island. New York, NY | volunteer docent

2006   |   Habitat for Humanity. Placentia, CA | construction volunteer 

exhibits, publications, awards

12.2010   |   13.3% exhibition - WUHO School of Architecture Woodbury University | selected submission

07.2008   |   Abstract 07/08 - GSAPP publication | architectural photography 1293

06.2007   |   Columbia University | scholastic scholarship 

06.2005   |   Cal Poly Pomona | senior thesis project, design honor award

08.2003   |   AIA California Council | portfolio scholarship

07.2003   |   William Ciao Architects | design competition scholarship

07.2003   |   AIA Inland California Chapter | design scholarship

07.2002   |   National Association for Women in Construction [NAWIC] | scholastic scholarship

biography

1. ‣ story
   

2. ‣ curriculum vitae
   

architecture

1. ‣ BC  master plan
   

2. ‣ SEAHQ  interior
   

3. ‣ reNEW-TS  urban
   

4. ‣ GARAK  master plan
   

5. ‣ HAC  cultural
   

6. ‣ NEI  master plan
   

7. ‣ LITMUS  institutional
   

8. ‣ M&G  institutional
   

9. ‣ G-hotel  hospitality
   

10. ‣ LACHSA  educational
    

11. ‣ LaMEV  institutional
    

12. ‣ ACCD educational
    

for humanity

1. ‣ youth clubhouse  design
   

2. ‣ Design DEYS  education
   

3. ‣ FlyNY  event
   

4. ‣ EHTP  interior
   

creative

1. ‣ photography
   

2. ‣ graphics
   

connect

1. ‣ e mail
   

2. ‣ linkedin
   

prose

1. ‣ small | twitter
   

2. ‣ medium | tumbr