My goal is to achieve the highest possible level of design quality and responsiveness while providing services tuned specifically to my Client's individual needs.
Prior to starting my own design consulting practice in 1992, I worked as a design architect with architectural firms in New York City, San Francisco and on the Peninsula. My architectural experience is wide-ranging and includes institutional, R&D, industrial, high-technology, medical research, retail, commercial interiors and ADA accessibility projects. I also have extensive residential architecture experience in San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, and Alameda Counties. I have had primary responsibility for the design and execution of new single and multi-family housing as well as additions, remodels and restoration projects.
From 1996 to 1998 I acted as Director of Green Building Services for GTek, a San Francisco based consulting firm specializing in improving the environmental and financial performance of buildings. Services provided spanned a broad spectrum from planning for sustainability in large projects, to detailed evaluation of building materials and systems.
I earned a Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York City (1983) where my studies focused on architecture, urban design, and real estate economics. I studied as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley's College of Environmental Design where I graduated with honors in Architecture (1978).
Ellis A. Schoichet AIA has been a licensed Architect in the State of California since 1985, and in the State of Illinois since 2006.