Raker
Architects is a medium size professional service firm
of architects, interior designers, and related specialists
with offices in Marin County. Project history ranges from
individual to public scale with a concentration on commercial,
institutional, high end residential, and public sector
work. Clients include public utilities, corporate and
development organizations, institutions, individuals,
and a variety of government entities. The organization
consists of a core staff of professionals and a resource
group of contract employees. Members of the core include
senior design and technical personnel who are also experienced
project managers. Contract employees are specialists in
programming, interiors, cost estimating, CAD, and construction
administration, whose skills can be used to supplement
those of the core group as required for a particular project.
A long-standing working relationship of approximately
ten years exists between the core and resource groups.
The advantages of this organization are two fold: Fees
tend to be competitive since resource staff are not carried
when unassigned. Project teams can be customized to specific
project requirements, making highly specialized and experienced
personnel available as needed. Client contact and project
management are provided, however, by a single Principal
or Project Architect throughout all phases of the work.
Firm Principals have over thirty years of experience,
the last twenty as Raker Architects. Founder, Christopher
Raker, also acts as an expert legal witness in cases involving
ADA accessibility or architectural practice & standard
of care.
The Firm is a member of the American Institute of Architects
and licensed to practice architecture in the state of
California. |