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About Us
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Purpose and Aims Pontikis + Associates is an architectural and interior design consultancy firm based in Southern California. The firm is a member of the European Group CY-ARC (Cyprus Architectural Center) which started its operations in Cyprus in 1996. The main aim of our firm is to create livable and sustainable building and community environments in the United States and around the world. Kyriakos Pontikis is the principal and managing director of the firm. He is a project consultant, author, and educator with over twenty years of professional experience in Europe and the United States. He has in-depth expertise in building design and construction, interior architecture, building sustainability, art of making, and participatory processes in design and construction. His work focuses on the integration of architecture with interior spaces and his primary concern is how livable and sustainable buildings and towns are made. In his work he tries to create life and true functionality to building environments by employing fundamental principles of the “art of building”. His work, which grew out of his association with Christopher Alexander and his associates in Berkeley, focuses in the integration of architecture with structures and construction, in design build processes, and in the use of materiality, detailing, ornament, and color in buildings. The main aim of his work is to create contemporary living structures that are responsive to human needs and cultural specificity.
Short Biography Kyriakos Pontikis studied architecture in the United States and received his bachelor’s degree (B.Arch.) from Oklahoma State University and his master’s degree (M.Arch.) from the University of California, Berkeley. He also received his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley with minors in structural engineering and construction management. He is an Associate Professor at California State University Northridge. He heads the firm Pontikis + Associates in Los Angeles, which practices both in the US and Europe. He is also an associate with Integrated Structures Inc. in Berkeley, California. In 2005 he co-founded with other likeminded architects the Building Process Alliance, an organization whose goal is to create wholeness and living structures in the built world.
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