Sally Zambrano-Olmo

Sally received her Bachelors of Architecture from City College of the City University of New York in 2000. The School of Architecture at City College has proudly exhibited her Housing project for the Redevelopment of the 116th Street Corridor in Harlem. During her undergraduate studies she interned at DASNYThe Dormitory Authority of New York. In 1998 she interned at CR Studio Architects, PC, where she worked on various projects and continued doing so after graduation. She assisted during site construction on The Discovery Center for children at the Museum of Natural History, worked on the renovation of the West side Brownstone and The Alice and Olivia Store to name a few. Currently she is working on the restoration of the Bryant Park Studios building facade and lobby renovation while completing the final stages of the Pier 62 Carousel construction documents. In addition to collaborating on multiple current office projects, Sally is the mother of two wonderfully energetic preschool children.

Sam Roberts, II

Sam received his Bachelor of Science (Architecture) from the University of Virginia in 1998 with a second major in 20th Century Literature. During his final semester at Virginia, his studio work on the Fifeville Community Design Workshop in Charlottesville lead the City Planning Commission to rewrite the zoning ordinances for that area of the city. In May of 2001, Sam received his Master of Architecture, also from the University of Virgina. Prior to joining CR Studio Architects, PC, in the summer of 2001, Sam worked for Niles Bolton Associates in Washington, D.C. and William McDonough + Partners of Charlottesville, where he was engaged in a variety of projects including Nike’s European Headquarters and Heritage 2000 for Ford Motor Company.

Gloria Kim

Gloria received her Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University in the fall of 2001. Her interest in architectural illustration led her to dbox for several years where she produced and managed award winning images, developed innovative computer rendering techniques, and collaborated on new design and technology projects. At dbox, she was also involved in teaching a digital illustration design class at Princeton University in the graduate architecture department. Her interest in teaching led to an appointment at New York University between 2003-2005, where she taught an architecture class in the STEP program, which brings talented underprivileged New York city high school students together through a pre-college science and technology development curriculum. Gloria returned to architecture and joined CR Studio Architects in the fall of 2005. She is currently working on a ground up house upstate in Hillsdale, New York.

Anke Roggenbuck

Kelly Barlow

Kelly graduated from the University of Virginia in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. Her final semester at Virginia was spent working extensively on the second phase of ecoMOD, a collaborative design/build/evaluate project focused on generating ecological, modular and affordable housing prototypes. The prototype established in this phase, preHAB, is a prefabricated alternative to disaster relief and Habitat for Humanity. The multi-year project is the first to have received the NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy, the American Institute of Architects National Education Honor Award and the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award within the same year. Prior to joining CR Studio Architects, PC, in October, Kelly worked as a research assistant, planning and evaluating the integration of teaching practices and collaborative technology at the University of Virginia.

Leah C. Davis

Leah has lived throughout the United States as well as in France, Denmark, Mexico and Argentina. Leah holds a Masters of Architecture with honors from the University of Texas at Austin where she developed and managed the digital fabrication laboratory. Her undergraduate thesis on manufactured housing in Modern Architectural Theory won her a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities with honors also from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to graduate school she worked in Washington DC in politics and public policy for several years. She has won a number of design competitions and public art projects which have resulted in commissions. She and a group of artists received a 2006 commission to design, fabricate and install artwork and signage for the Lance Armstrong Bikeway in Austin Texas. The City of Austin previously commissioned her and a group of textile designers to build a large scale installation on a downtown riverbank using over one million linear feet of polypropylene string. A 2003 collaboration with an artist resulted in the design and fabrication of a large scale steel installation in a fountain funded jointly by the University and The Fund for Risk Taking in Architecture. She has also worked on a library in the city of Mt Angel, Oregon as well as custom concrete and stone design for a Design Build company in Austin. She joined CR Studio in March 2007.

Kate Feather

Kate graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2007 with a Masters in Architecture. Before attending graduate school, she worked as an environmental consultant for EPA-run programs and as a museum assistant at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.. She received her BA in 2001 from Yale University, where she studied World and American History as well as studio art. Her architectural experience ranges from private residential homes to large-scale developments in the Middle East. Kate joined CRStudio in the fall of 2007, and is happily absorbed in the ground-up construction of a marine firehouse for the FDNY on the Gansevoort Peninsula.

Alana Anderson