Experience

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  H4Designworks

  • Washington DC and Dallas TX

  • Partner

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • Washington DC and Dallas TX

    H4Designworks is a joint venture of HotelStudio and Ortega Design

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  HotelStudio

  • Washington DC and Dallas, Texas

  • Partner

    • Jan 2017 - Present
    • Washington DC and Dallas, Texas

    HotelStudio is a pure hospitality design firm. Led by Stephen Perkins and Mendy Winkler, HotelStudio is centered in creating deeper connections between the guest and the place as embodied in the hotel or resort. We are confident that these connections create more powerful memories and bonds bet...

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  3north

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Principal

    • Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
    • Washington, D.C.

    Stephen Perkins, AIA, ISHC served as Principal in 3north's Washington, D.C. office.

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  Stephen Perkins Architect

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Principal

    • Jun 2012 - Dec 2016
    • Washington, D.C.

    As an architect and consultant, Stephen Perkins provides guidance, design and design management to owners, operators and developers of hospitality, multifamily, entertainment and institutional facilities.Engagements included the creation of the headquarters for The American Enterprise Institute i...

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  ForrestPerkins

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Co-Founder and Principal

    • Nov 1998 - Dec 2012
    • Washington, D.C.

    Stephen Perkins founded ForrestPerkins in 1998 with Deborah Forrest. ForrestPerkins conceives and designs luxury hotels, resorts and multifamlily development worldwide. From offices in Washington, D.C., Dallas, Texas and San Francisco, California, our staff of architects, interior designers, li...

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  Ernst & Young

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Director

    • 1996 - 1998
    • Washington, D.C.

    Managed the relationship between E&Y and Parsons Engineering in the development of the US Department of Defense' predictive Econometric Model that would eventually become the blueprint for the Privatization of Military Family Housing. The model sought to pair advantaged real estate with ...

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  Gensler

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Senior Associate

    • 1993 - 1995
    • Washington, D.C.

    As Director of Architecture and on the Gensler firmwide Hospitality and Entertainment Commitees, developed new approaches to entertainment retail in conjunction with the Mills Corporation. These prototypical models became the model for the national roll-out of the Mills Corporation's new ent...

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  Projects Pacific

  • Palo Alto, California

  • Senior Design Architect

    • 1991 - 1993
    • Palo Alto, California

    Worked with a small team to develop the Master Plan for the $US5.0 billion addition to Tokyo Disneyland. Working closely with Dentsu on the social problems faced by the loss in Japanese society of lifetime employment, the team developed an educational leisure model that prefigured the larger lei...

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  Perez Associates Architects

  • New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Architect

    • 1980 - 1985
    • New Orleans, Louisiana

    Worked as a project architect for hospitality projects including the Natchez Eola Hotel, the continuity of a project begun with Charles W. Moore FAIA and Allen Eskew FAIA while in graduate school at UCLA. Notably, Deborah Forrest was the interior designer for this project which led to the foundi...

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  Michael Graves Architect

  • Princeton, New Jersey

  • Intern Architect

    • 1979 - 1980
    • Princeton, New Jersey

    Worked as an intern architect on residential and commerial design, but also on concepts for consumer items for Alessi, Sunar and others.

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  MRDC and Meta Systems

  • Jackson, Mississippi and Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Research Associate

    • 1973 - 1975
    • Jackson, Mississippi and Cambridge, Massachusetts

    As Research Assistant to the Director of the Mississippi Research and Development Center, worked with Dr. Ken Wagner and Meta Systems' Dr. Robert Burden and Dr. Bernard Muller-Thym on economic development issues including poverty, housing and water systems in Mississippi and modular housing p...