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For people ranging from the young child to the frail elderly, from the former homeless to the affluent, from the sick to the fit, each project presents unique explorations for an enhanced quality of life. Each project happens at the intersection of various competing aspirations: functional, political, financial, promotional, aesthetic, poetic, etc; the firm is dedicated to gracefully integrating and resolving them until they rather inform and illuminate each other. Our repeat clients attest to the ingeniousity, resourcefulness and efficiency with which we consistently design projects that articulate with sensitivity each specific place, resonate each nuance of program, while imbued with meaning and a sense of elegance. Aviva Litman Cleper founded the firm in 1989 in San Francisco, with the premise that each project frees up a space for creating, at every appropriate scale, a place that repairs, engages and enriches the life fabric of its occupants. Her abilities were forged on projects of very complex functions, in urban, congested settings, with challenging issues usually associated with multi-headed clients with often-divergent interests, where the facilities had to be kept operational during construction and exposure to dust, noise or vibration had to be minimized. |
While holding leading roles with Anshen + Allen and KMD Architects, she had a solid schooling in cost-effective building practices and cost control which achieve the difficult task of satisfying an ambitious program on the most meager of budgets. On the background of very complex building programs, she acquired special skills in the orchestration of different minds and talents. Prior to arriving in San Francisco in 1980, she worked in New York and Paris. |