MARK CAVAGNERO ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS, SAN FRANCISCO

PROFILE

Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects is a San Francisco Bay Area based architecture firm focused on cultural, education, and civic projects. Since its establishment in 1988 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects has completed a wide range of architectural and master planning projects, including large and small scale institutional, non-profit, commercial, and residential projects. Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects provides a full range of services, from programming, master planning, site planning and conceptual design, through construction documents and administration.

In the San Francisco architecture office of Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects, the design process begins with a careful investigation of the client's goals and the project site. These conditions generate all following steps. As a result, the qualities of program and site specificity, rather than pre-assumed tendencies, unify the firm's portfolio.

San Francisco Bay Area based Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects welcomes the constraints of program, site, and budget as frameworks within which to create engaging architectural spaces. It is in the focused response to these project elements that the essential character of each project finds its voice. The purity of response--in form, material, and relationship to light and context--is always the firm's goal.

MARK CAVAGNERO

Mark Cavagnero began his career in 1983 in the New York office of Edward Larrabee Barnes/John M.Y. Lee Architects, where he learned first hand the importance of clear and thoughtful design--ideas he carries through his work to date. In 1988 he co-founded Barnes and Cavagnero (later renamed Mark Cavagnero Associates) in San Francisco. Mark has developed an intentionally diverse practice including new construction and renovation of civil, institutional and private projects.

SELECTED PROJECTS

NEW (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

Mammoth Lakes Courthouse
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Magnes Museum
Tannery Arts Studios and Learning Center
SFJAZZ Performance Venue

CIVIC AND CULTURAL (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

Sava Pool
Clovis Memorial District Conference Center
Oakland Museum of California
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Mammoth Lakes Courthouse
Headlands Center for the Arts
San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Tannery Arts Studios and Learning Center
SFJAZZ Performance Venue

MUSEUMS (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Oakland Museum of California
Park City Museum
Hiroshi Sugimoto Exhibition at deYoung Museum
Magnes Museum
Newark History Museum
California Indian Heritage Center

THEATERS (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

Community School of Music and Arts
Clovis Memorial District Conference Center
Rafael Film Center
Brava Theater Center
ODC Theater Center
SFJAZZ Performance Venue
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

WORKPLACE AND COMMERCIAL (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

Chronicle Books
Marin Community Foundation
MC2 Restaurant
Zero Degrees Cafe
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
UC Berkeley Durant Hall
Whole Foods Chicago

MASTER PLAN (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

Marin Center Master Plan
California Indian Heritage Center
Oakland Museum of California
California Palace of the Legion of Honor

SUSTAINABILITY (Architecture, Site Planning, Master Planning)

Oakland Museum of California
Sava Pool
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
Trinity School Enrichment Center Marin Horizon School
UC Berkeley Durant Hall

CONTACT

MARK CAVAGNERO ASSOCIATES
1045 Sansome Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94111

t: 415 398 6944
f: 415 398 6943
e: info@cavagnero.com