//Sameena Sitabkhan|Principal CA Registered Architect | NOMA
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Sameena Sitabkhan is a California licensed architect deeply committed to empowering the next generation of architects through an emphasis on spatial justice. As the assistant undergraduate director at the Academy of Art SF, she has served in the roles of Licensing Advisor, AIAS faculty advisor, and NOMAS faculty advisor.
Since 2018, she has been directing and teaching at B.Lab, the undergraduate department’s community-based design initiative. The student-designed and constructed projects have won numerous awards using creativity, listening and empathy to meeting the needs of underserved communities in the Bay Area. The program relies on a robust participatory model with neighbors, local youth, city agencies, and nonprofits.
Over the past 19 years, she has designed and led projects spanning a range of public serving building typologies from schools and affordable housing to urban/art installations. She has held leadership positions at local firms including David Baker Architects where she focused on housing for the formerly homeless. Additionally, she has designed and managed complex charter and public school buildings throughout California.
Sameena has a Masters degree in Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and a BA in urban planning from UC San Diego. She is an honoree of the 2023 Community Alliance Awards // Sandra I. Vivanco Education Award and a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellow.
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Sameena Sitabkhan is a California licensed architect deeply committed to empowering the next generation of architects through an emphasis on spatial justice. As the assistant undergraduate director at the Academy of Art SF, she has served in the roles of Licensing Advisor, AIAS faculty advisor, and NOMAS faculty advisor.
Since 2018, she has been directing and teaching at B.Lab, the undergraduate department’s community-based design initiative. The student-designed and constructed projects have won numerous awards using creativity, listening and empathy to meeting the needs of underserved communities in the Bay Area. The program relies on a robust participatory model with neighbors, local youth, city agencies, and nonprofits.
Over the past 19 years, she has designed and led projects spanning a range of public serving building typologies from schools and affordable housing to urban/art installations. She has held leadership positions at local firms including David Baker Architects where she focused on housing for the formerly homeless. Additionally, she has designed and managed complex charter and public school buildings throughout California.
Sameena has a Masters degree in Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and a BA in urban planning from UC San Diego. She is an honoree of the 2023 Community Alliance Awards // Sandra I. Vivanco Education Award and a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellow.
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//Tammy Ho|Principal
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Tammy is a second-generation Chinese American from the San Francisco Bay Area. With over 19 years of experience, she has worked across a wide range of project types and scales, including cultural, hospitality, and residential projects throughout the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Her work centers on shaping meaningful experiences, where space, visual identity, and storytelling come together. She is particularly interested in exploring how design can shape the way people move through and connect with a space.
In 2009, she co-founded Kupa Studios, an architecture and design practice based in Beijing, China, and Oakland, California. Working internationally, she played a key role in delivering numerous commercial design projects in Beijing. Her work has been featured in publications such as Dwell, Casa Abitare, Los Angeles Times, Brutus, and New York Magazine.
Tammy holds a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and a BA in History of Art and Visual Culture from UC Santa Cruz. Across all projects, her approach is guided by curiosity and experimentation, thriving at the intersection of creativity and collaboration.
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Tammy is a second-generation Chinese American from the San Francisco Bay Area. With over 19 years of experience, she has worked across a wide range of project types and scales, including cultural, hospitality, and residential projects throughout the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Her work centers on shaping meaningful experiences, where space, visual identity, and storytelling come together. She is particularly interested in exploring how design can shape the way people move through and connect with a space.
In 2009, she co-founded Kupa Studios, an architecture and design practice based in Beijing, China, and Oakland, California. Working internationally, she played a key role in delivering numerous commercial design projects in Beijing. Her work has been featured in publications such as Dwell, Casa Abitare, Los Angeles Times, Brutus, and New York Magazine.
Tammy holds a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and a BA in History of Art and Visual Culture from UC Santa Cruz. Across all projects, her approach is guided by curiosity and experimentation, thriving at the intersection of creativity and collaboration.
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