Nerin Kadribegovic’s passion for navigating complex design problems, especially where economy is of paramount importance, captures an eye for beauty and design, notably in social cause, that results in unconventional, award-winning solutions. Obsessed with artfully directing natural light to create nuanced, playful moments, he ushers a spirit of dignity into places, where least expected, through the aesthetic design opportunity.

A third-generation architect who endured displacement as a refugee of the wars in Yugoslavia and Bosnia, Nerin has directly experienced the impact of chaotic social and environmental disruption on people and society. This alert awareness evokes deep empathic connection to critical issues facing metropolitan urban centers around the world; those gripped by environmental or socio-economic crises.

The wartime reality imposed a fragility on life and shelter, that ignited his resolve in dissolving obstacles. Protecting a broken community, Nerin developed the uncanny ability to transform whatever material was at one’s disposal into something of functionality, beauty and meaning. Instilling hope and safety during hardship has become second nature, embedded into his mindset, both in design and leadership for social cause.

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Judith is a Senior Project Manager at KADRE. She is a licensed Architect with 20 years of experience in all project phases of the architectural practice. During her fourteen-year tenure at Frank Gehry’s office, she worked on cultural, residential, and commercial projects ranging in size from 150,000 to 1.2M square feet. Highlights of her career include successfully managing the Facebook Headquarters Masterplan in Menlo Park and designing the façade of the Beekman Tower in New York City.

She brings to the office a sophisticated sense of design, management skills, and a wide range of technical knowledge of the construction process.

As a Senior Project Manager at KADRE, she manages projects, oversees the project delivery, and serves as day-to-day contact for clients, consultants, and other stakeholders.

Kadre Design Partner

Brian has over 20 years of past experience working with Frank Gehry as a senior project architect on a wide range of typologies and scales. Notable projects include serving as the project architect on Frank Gehry’s new personal residence in Santa Monica, the LA Grand and Santa Monica Ocean Avenue residential mixed-use projects, and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum. Brian has been a licensed architect in the state of California since 2008.

Brian endeavors to find an inspiring and unique design approach and solutions specific to each and every project. He believes in balancing design goals with technical development, strategic procurement strategies, and value driven sensibilities. He values a process of iteration and continuous dialogue with clients and users that can communally strengthen the ideas and design goals for every project.

Founder – Ashle Fauvre Architecture Inc

Ashle is a licensed architect in the state of California where she has practiced for over a decade. With a background in contemporary art history and social practice, Ashle is driven by design opportunities that bring phenomenal and impressive experiences of place into everyday life.

Her work has been awarded and published by the AIA, LA Business Council, LA Times, New York Times, Dwell magazine, JA, and others.

Ashle is an exhibiting artist with design collectives including Bitter Party, the Metabolic Studio, the Queer Spa Network, and Movable Parts. She is a 2023 grantee of the LA Contemporary Exhibitions for the project Community Care in Times of Drought with QSN. She is active civically as a member of SPA, a citizen advocacy group promoting therapeutic hygiene services for the unhoused populations of Skid Row.

Prior to joining Kadre Architects, she led project management for a spectrum of residential project types at Lehrer Architects, and a variety of civic project types at Johnson Favaro. She has also contributed to the residential work of Atelier BowWow in Tokyo and the making of participatory urban places with Gehl Architects in Copenhagen. She has studied art and architecture in Mexico extensively.

Ashle received her BA from UC Berkeley and her M.Arch from the University of Washington, where she was awarded a research fellowship to study post-tsunami disaster recovery in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake.

Alicia Amos is a fifth-generation native Californian who has a passion for designing projects that serve the public realm and promote equity in the built environment. While working for the Los Angeles-based non-profit organization LA Mas, she gained experience developing community projects aimed at supporting low-income neighborhoods.

Alicia has expertise in emergency housing projects and is intimately familiar with the specific codes and state requirements for temporary shelters. She has successfully implemented designs for Magnolia Safe Parking in San Diego County. As an integral member of the Emergency Housing Plan program team, she helped design a range of solutions, including safe parking, sleeping cabins, tiny homes, RV parking, and safe camping.

Alicia holds a BA from UCLA, where she graduated with honors and an M.Arch from Yale School of Architecture.

Throughout her career, Amanda has oscillated between custom interiors and urban planning, shaping her holistic approach to architecture. No design question too small nor too large. This mindset paired with the experience of working on complex projects across continents, often displaying substantial environmental and social sustainability components, has honed Amanda’s skill to implement design strategies that bridge typologies and disciplines.

Having an inherent interest in culture and history, Amanda appreciates and understands a myriad of architectural styles, drawing on them to reimagine existing spaces and create unique design concepts. With one foot in Los Angeles and the other in her native Sweden, Amanda brings additional perspectives on preservation and longevity for our built environment alongside new collaborative technologies to achieve successful projects.

Amanda holds a dual Master of Architecture from Lund University, Sweden and Southern California Institute of Architecture. Prior to joining Kadre Architects, she spent several years in custom residential and hospitality architecture in Los Angeles before setting off for Gothenburg to work for award-winning architecture office Wingårdhs. Amanda has also participated in the Chalmers University of Technology mentorship program and has been a reoccurring jury member for the architecture program at University of Colorado Denver.

Jagger Jiageng Chen is a designer who holds passion for architecture both for academic discourse and social responsibility. Originally from Harbin, China, he brings global view through vernacular origins and believes that great architecture comes from normal solid buildings.  

Jagger has experience in housing, educational, cultural and commercial projects. He holds a broad range of interests from housing development, architectural design, furniture design to art installations.  

Jagger holds a B.Arch degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, exchange degree with UC Berkeley and Tamkang University, and an M.Arch degree from Harvard GSD.  

Tara graduated magna cum laude with her Bachelor’s of Architecture with a concentration in Design Studies at the University of New Mexico. Pursuing an Architecture degree allowed her creative energy and interest in design to form harmoniously.  Originally from Las Cruces, Tara was strongly connected with her upbringing- constantly inspired by the complex natural landscape surrounding her. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, she spent her first year working in her community to support the growth and development of small businesses, non-profit organizations, and creating affordable design concepts. Tara has since relocated to Los Angeles and is eager to continue growing in the field and challenge herself with new ideas, concepts, and technologies. Her background also includes studying Psychology, Gender Studies, and American Studies that helped her form a strong insight on the human experience in everyday society.

Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture with a minor in Urban Studies at Woodbury University, Saad stays active in the architecture field to achieve social justice. Originally from Pakistan, he participates in a lot of minority-oriented design work and is president of his university’s student chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. Winner of the 2022 AIA San Fernando Valley Portfolio Award, Saad’s design work aims for formal and technical excellence through sustainable means.

Andrew Davis is an architectural designer, visual artist, and scholar. All his work is animated by a sense of social practice and engagement. In the museum field, he assisted the curatorial staff of The Clark Art Institute with their major campus expansion. He has provided advisory services to art museums and galleries. He teaches criticism and theory at Woodbury University. He has researched such diverse topics as the water footprint of construction materials, the mini mall as a vernacular type of suburban sprawl, and overlooked architects of Southern California.

As a visual artist, he has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Miami, Akumal, and North Adams, among other locales. With his partner, Claire Fox, he operated the Avalon Seafood Gallery and Grass Gallery in North Adams, MA. He continues to stage alternative exhibitions of art and experimental music.

Andrew received his BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York, and his M.Arch from Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where he studied under Paulette Singley, FAIA.

Jay has deep knowledge, skills and experience in the areas of strategy development, financial analysis, valuations and transaction management.

As such, he plays a critical role as managing partner in Kadre’s development arm, KADRE Group. Working together with Nerin, they successfully developed half a dozen properties  in Southern California and continue to look for investment opportunities.

Jay has a Masters degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Pune. Jay worked with clients in sectors as diverse as high-tech, financial services, government, health care, and media & entertainment. He led clients to realize value through the development of new product and service initiatives, and the alignment of operations to support these initiatives. His work includes the definition of a new diagnostic product for a bio-medical device manufacturer with revenues in excess of $300M, delivery of a $250M vendor realignment strategy for a pharmaceuticals company, and the fair market valuation and TCO estimation of an operational division with a $50M+ asset base for a government entity.

Jay’s skills and experience spanning small businesses and large corporations, strategy and operations, and business environments in the US and India position him uniquely to deliver advice to that enables executives to realize their goals.

With nearly 20 years of project control experience, Jackie has cost estimated a variety of project types, including residential, higher education, government, laboratories, K-12 schools, hospitality, hospitals, and industrial facilities with budgets ranging from less than $1 million to more than $200 million.

She assists Clients in project risk management through early feasibility cost studies, GMP buyout, negotiation change order review, value engineering and construction claims estimating. The intent is to capture, analyze and present data in a readily understandable way allowing the client to respond to any challenge quickly and with complete confidence of having real-time information.

Her primary passion is in real estate investment and development.