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With our origins in Oregon, attention to craft and beauty is elemental to the ZGF culture. A deep respect for the built environment evolved from reverence for the surrounding natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest landscape and a commitment to stewardship of the natural environment. Rather than reflecting a signature style, our work is derived from the particulars of the climate, context, and the human experience. The instinct to build community, making places where people come together for a common purpose, is central to our work. Evolving from a single office with strong regional roots to a firm with seven offices across North America and 750+ staff, ZGF's national reputation was honored with the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Firm Award, recognizing the firm’s “high standards, humanistic concerns, and unique ability to capture the spirit of a place and the aspirations of its inhabitants.”

Mithun is an integrated design firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives. As a national practice with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, we are a unified design studio with an open and collaborative spirit founded on a process of inquiry and listening. Our team of Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior Designers, Urban Designers and Planners creates seamless experiences that are unique expressions of each client, community and place. We work in a wide range of typologies and scales – with a focus on urban environments and places where people live, work, and learn. Mithun is an internationally recognized leader in sustainability, combining exemplary design with a focus on building and site performance, human health and social equity. Since the inception of the practice in 1949, our work has been recognized with hundreds of peer and industry awards including six AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten project honors as well as ranking among the nation’s top design firms.

Portland, OR + Oakland, CA SERA is a firm of dynamic thinkers, collaborators and creators who want to shape the world through smart planning and enduring design. Our mission is sustainable placemaking. As an integrated team of architects, interior designers and urban designers and planners, we work holistically to create places that enrich lives and inspire positive change. SERA was founded in 1968, in Portland, Oregon, during the city’s inspired era of downtown renaissance. Today, we continue building upon that passion for urban revitalization and continue to take a progressive approach in our practice. Our exciting work now extends to active clients in Silicon Valley, where we are growing our presence with a new San Mateo office. As a 100% employee-owned firm, we know our employees move our company forward. We offer staff a full suite of benefits, from multiple retirement plans and continuing education opportunities to flexible work schedules and free monthly transit passes. Learn more at seradesign.com/careers