Calvin has extensive experience creating outdoor environments for LEED certified projects. Calvin is noted for his ability to transform conceptual designs into artful built forms for urban environments. He is a team player who seeks collaborations with architects, designers, artists, scientists and engineers to develop and implement innovative and technically-sound designs. Calvin Abe's landscapes and art installations have been widely published and recognized with professional awards including a 2008 Honor Award from the AIA California Council Urban Design for South Park Streetscape, Los Angeles, CA

Calvin Abe received his Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He established Calvin R. Abe Associates, Inc. (now ah'bé) in 1986 and is a registered licensed Landscape Architect. In addition to his practice, Calvin Abe also teaches design in the Department of Landscape Architecture at UCLA Extension School, is a visiting critic at many Southern California schools, lectures nationally on design and landscape architecture, and participates in a wide range of organizations. He has served on the Boards of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Southern California Chapter and the Asian American Architects and Engineers Association, Southern California Chapter. Calvin Abe currently serves on the Board of the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.

In 2005 he received the ‘Educator of the Year Award’ from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture. Additionally, he has been nominated six times for the Risser ‘Outstanding Teacher Award’ at Pasadena City College.

Prior to his current position at Pasadena City College, he worked both as a senior designer and a director of design for several distinguished firms in Orange County and in Los Angeles including LPA, Los Angeles and Dougherty and Dougherty Architects, Newport Beach. Before coming to California in 1988 he worked in San Antonio, Texas where he was first licensed. Mr. Griffith received his undergraduate degree in Architecture from The Catholic University of America and his Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Ohio State University.

Professor Millar is the Dean of the School of Architecture at Woodbury University having run the architecture program there since 1999. Prior to that, he taught at several Los Angeles institutions including the SCI-Arc, USC, Pasadena Art Center, and UCLA.

Norman Millar is a regent for the California Architecture Foundation. He also serves on the ad hoc Hollywood Design Review Advisory Board and the advisory boards for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA, and the architecture departments at several Southern California community colleges. Many of his critical essays have been published; including one on the plight of Los Angeles street venders was included in Everyday Urbanism, edited by Margaret Crawford, John Chase and John Kaliski and published by Monacelli Press of New York in 1999.

Murray joined Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects in 1989, and became an owner in 2008. She is a generalist architect with particular interest and experience on residential, mixed use, and institutional projects with complex site development and programmatic aspects including site selection and analysis, programming, master planning and design. She is currently working on several urban infill projects, including Art Stable in Seattle’s South Lake Union, the First and Stewart development in the city’s downtown, and 1111 East Pike in Seattle’s evolving Pike/Pine neighborhood.

Kirsten Murray is deeply engaged with issues of context – how a building relates and responds to its surroundings. Murray holds a deep appreciation for the natural world as well the ways that architecture and responsible stewardship can shape it. She brings this sense to many of the firm’s urban projects, exploring how economic, industrial, and environmental factors can be melded with concepts of urban design to create flexible environments that promote healthy living and community.

Murray’s project work has been published in a variety of magazines and books including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Architectural Record, and Architecture. Several projects on which she has worked have received awards from the AIA, including Tye River Cabin which won a National AIA Housing Committee Award, as well as an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.

Murray has a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado.

Tim works regularly for a variety of design and travel magazines and has published four books as both author and photographer:
“Freestyle, New Architecture and Design of Los Angeles” in 1986, and “Casa Mexicana”, in 1989 both published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang, “The Los Angeles House” and “Tropical Houses”, published by Clarkson Potter. He was the principal photographer for “Hollywood Style” with author Dianne Saeks, Rizzoli 2004. “Los Angeles”, Rizzoli, was published in October 2005, and his new book “LA Modern” in 2008.

Client list includes: Williams Sonoma, Town & Country, House Beautiful, Elle Décor, Interior Design, Architectural Digest, Western Interiors, Country Living, Metropolitan Home, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Garden Design, In Style, Martha Stewart Living, House & Garden UK, World of Interiors, Traveller UK.

Street-Porter’s recent Exhibitions and Awards:
1989 Received the Distinguished Achievement Award in the Allied Arts, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Los Angeles Chapter
2003 Received the 2003 International Lucie Award for Architectural Photography.
2009 One of eleven Los Angeles based photographers featured in the inaugural exhibit “L8S ANG3LES” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City

In addition, Sullivan is Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has presented papers and lectured at various conferences and at college campuses in Southern California. He has also made AIA chapter presentations and conducted numerous professional seminars. He co-authored “Ethics and the Practice of Architecture” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000) and has presented papers on the subject of new environments for juvenile offenders at the 2006 EBS Symposium in Sydney, Australia; and at annual EDRA meetings. Patrick has also presented ethics seminars at several AIA national conventions. A forthcoming publication includes “The Design of Juvenile Treatment and Correctional Facilities: The Role of the Building.”

Sullivan is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in architecture, including the 1977 Rotch Family Traveling Scholarship. His firm received 26 awards from the AIA/Academy of Architecture for Justice and 12 awards from local AIA chapters. In addition, PSA received Progressive Architecture Awards for applied research. As a registered architect and Fellow of The American Institute of Architects, Sullivan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Sullivan has served as chair of several design awards programs for the AIA locally and nationally. He has also been a member of the AIA Documents Committee’s Education Task Force and the AIA Case Study Work Group, both national assignments.

Prior to that he worked for Universal Studios for over 20 years. During his tenure he directed growth of Universal Creative from 1-person office to a maximum 1500-person team that designed and built all themed entertainment projects for the Recreation Division. Barry also managed the Master Planning of UNIVERAL CITY FLORIDA and a major 5-year expansion program for UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD.

From 1967 to 1977 he was president and partner at Smith & Williams, Architects and Planners in South Pasadena, a medium-sized architectural and planning firm specializing in commercial and public recreation programming, planning design and operational consulting. Typical projects included Mission Bay San Diego (planning); Disneyland Hotel Rehab/ Expansion; Kuwait National Zoo; Universal Studios Hollywood Expansion.

Barry Upson also worked as Assistant Director for the San Diego Zoological Society and General Manager San Diego Wild Animal Park. He also worked on an intensive 5-year project for the Seattle World’s Fair

Upson holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Washington. He has also been honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA)