Welcome to the Team
We have three new Integrated Architecture team members to introduce!
Anastasia Spyratos joins the team as an Interior Designer. She has a Bachelor's degree in Interior Design and a certificate in sustainability from the University of Northern Iowa. She is a LEED Green Associate with experience working on a variety of project types in the Pacific Northwest, focusing on commercial office and civic & public safety. Her area of expertise is in the early phases of design – programming, space planning, and conceptualizing. Anastasia is also knowledgeable in BOMA calculations, lighting specifications, and is passionate about sustainability and trauma-informed design.
Outside of work, Anastasia enjoys backpacking, camping, birdwatching, and playing disc golf.
Esther Christian joins us as a Senior Project Architect & Senior Project Manager. While raised in Kalamazoo, MI, her architectural journey has taken her to Florida and Washington, DC before returning to Michigan. In her 20 years of experience, she has worked on everything from a dance studio to a beer garden to multifamily projects with hundreds of units. Esther brings over a decade of national experience working on multifamily and student housing projects.
Balancing a dual degree in engineering and dance her freshman year of college, Esther was unsatisfied with the trajectory of her degree paths. She wanted to find a way to combine her artistic and scientific interests, and it was that following summer she discovered the architecture profession and switched schools and majors to continue her education.
Every project is unique, and she thrives on the process and collaboration with colleagues. Her range of experience in both project and construction types complements the many practice areas at Integrated Architecture. Esther has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Lawrence Technological University and is a licensed architect in Michigan and LEED AP with USGBC.
When away from her profession, Esther has a wide range of interests and enjoys watching baseball, being with family, and going to the symphony.
Patrick Jackson is a designer with an array of creative and technical strengths that manifest into spatial solutions through renderings, models, sketches, and technical drawings. He is fueled by a passion to create artifacts that help clients, team members, and governing officials understand and visualize design ideation.
Having lived most of his life in Southern California, Patrick earned his Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and spent time studying architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark. Both locales infused an appreciation for timeless built forms that are thoughtfully detailed to dissolve the boundaries of the inside and out.
Professionally, Patrick has worked on high-end single-family residences along the California coast along with expansive multi-family developments and a range of mixed-use project types of educational, spiritual, and commercial backgrounds. In each exploration of design, he has evolved conceptual ideas, generated 3D models, created development and constructions drawings, while aiding in approval and permitting stages.
Patrick’s hobbies include: lifting heavy things repeatedly with minimally terrible form in hopes of attaining functional fitness, listening to Hall & Oats, loving his beautiful wife as best as possible, and trying to re-live his childhood without getting injured with his two amazing young sons.
