Bernhard Karpf, the 30-year veteran of Richard Meier & Partners who helped take over the firm after Meier was accused of sexual misconduct by five women in 2018, has left the office to start his own practice, Karpf Khalili Architects. 

Karpf departed Meier & Partners in July of 2019, The Real Deal reports, and took Parsa Khalili, an associate and director of visualization, with him to start the new practice. In an email, Khalili tells The Real Deal, "Karpf Khalili is a collaboration of two architects with complementary skills and expertise. We are interested in all types of ambitious projects with architectural significance.” 

According to the Karpf Khalili website, Karpf studied architecture and literature at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland, and at the Technical University Darmstadt, also in Germany. He earned a Master of Architecture and Urban Design from Cornell University. He was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2018. 

Khalili studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Versailles in France, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and earned a Masters in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. He is a licensed to practice architecture in New York. Khalili is also the director of Wazeone, "an experimental studio for developing architectural ideas through teaching, writing, competitions, and speculative proposals," according to the firm website. 

Karpf and Khalili are not the only upper level workers to leave the firm, The Real Deal reports. Reynolds Logan, who ran the firm's daily operations alongside principals Vivian Lee and Dukho Yeon and Karpf, left in January 2020 as well. The site reports that Meier "remained a regular presence" the firm's New York City office in the months following an announcement that he would step back from firm operations.