Category: Principals

Mary Kate Young

Mary Kate Young

Mary Kate is a versatile architect with extensive experience planning and designing educational, government, healthcare, and commercial projects across New York State. Since 2001, she has focused on educational projects for colleges, universities, and independent schools. Her experience includes dining, residential, and student life facilities, and academic buildings including science laboratories. She is an experienced… Read more >

Sara Wengert

Sara Wengert

Sara has served as Principal-in-Charge as well as Interior Designer for numerous healthcare projects throughout the United States since joining the firm in 1994. In addition, she oversees interior design for all our projects. Sara has collaborated with countless manufacturers of healthcare furniture on the development of products appropriate for use in therapeutic milieus and… Read more >

Francis Murdock Pitts

Frank is the founding partner of architecture+. He is nationally known for psychiatric healthcare facility planning and design for special populations, long term care, and secure institutions. He has been involved in a broader range of psychiatric healthcare projects than anyone in North America over the past 40 years. He is an instrumental member of… Read more >

Arien Cartrette

Arien Cartrette

Arien’s hands-on experience as a carpenter and metal work early in his career, influenced his thinking on design as an expression of the art of building — the understanding of how a building comes together, which itself informs its essential aesthetic nature. He brings this design sensibility along with technical expertise and humanity to create… Read more >

Valerie Bok

Valerie Bok

Since joining architecture+, Valerie has been involved with a wide variety of projects. She has provided design services for healthcare facilities, colleges and universities, libraries, and senior housing facilities. In addition to architectural design, her experience includes master planning, feasibility studies, project management, construction documents, and construction administration. Valerie is a strong advocate of environmental… Read more >

J. Michael Bergen

J. Michael Bergen

Michael has worked on a variety of building types although the majority of his projects are for higher education and healthcare clients in the public sector. Michael’s experience ranges from the design of new administration and academic buildings to minor renovation projects. Michael is also responsible managing our term contract assignments with the State University… Read more >

Brian Barker

Brian Barker

Brian has been part of the growth of the firm since its early days. His professional experience includes programming, planning, design, contract documentation, and construction administration for a large variety of institutional projects with a focus on multi-family housing, higher education, and special populations healthcare. For over 35 years, Brian has acted as Principal, Project… Read more >