Partners

Pedro Jaramillo
Principal Architect, AIA

Pedro Jaramillo is a leader in every sense of the word. Fun, engaging, and involved, he mentors staff through every phase of a project. His repertoire includes extensive institutional and educational experience on projects both large and small. Detail oriented, his exceptional abilities with computer graphics has been instrumental in visualizing dynamic environments to be enjoyed by future generations.

Pedro holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Woodbury University and is a licensed Architect in the State of California. His knowledge, dedication, and enthusiasm anchor every firm effort and enhance every design team.

Education extends into the Jaramillo household. Pedro's wife Kathleen is a Resource Specialist at a High School in the Inland Empire and a son who is perusing his Professional Engineering license in civil engineering while their daughter looks at attending a local university next year.

Rick Arias
Principal Architect, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Rick has been a licensed California architect since 1993 and holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

A versatile professional, having over 30 years of experience in designing non-prototypical, elementary schools from concept to construction as well as possessing experience in K-12 modernization, community college, university, retail, concrete tilt-up industrial, civic design as well as small-project Department of Defense work, all earned in his native Southern California.

A “volunteer storyteller” (actor and playwright) at a live theater in Redlands, Rick is also a long-distance runner, home gardener and a long-time aquarist. Rick enjoys international travel, recently exploring his South American roots on trips to his parents’ native Colombia and Panama.