People

Sidell Pakravan is a design intensive architecture studio.  With a collaborative culture, we integrate expertise, unique ideas, and experience into exceptional design solutions.  Every project team includes a principal and creative designers working together to craft a vision and deliver your project.  As a group, our staff share a unyielding commitment to design.  As individuals, each person brings unique abilities in detailing, visualizing three-dimensional space, and selecting materials.  

The two principals, Kristen and Rudabeh, met during their graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Following graduation, they headed to locations as diverse as Paris, Denver, and Los Angeles where they worked on civic, commercial, and residential architecture.  When they found themselves both back in the Bay Area and working in academia, they were excited to found a design oriented firm focused on critical thinking intrinsic to academia and real world building. Since 2014, Sidell Pakravan has continued to explore critical ideas in architecture through speculative projects and test these ideas in buildings across Northern California. 

Our previous collaborators:

Lucas Almassy, Meg Anderson, Jaclyn Berry, Andrew Cornelis, Charles Delisle, Amelia Goldrup, Trenton Jewett, Julia Klineberg, Nana Komoriya, Ian Lai, Jina Lee, Dan Liu, Matt Palmquist, Janet Shuy, Tiffany Xu, & Jonathan Young