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Peter Martinka

Peter Martinka

New Haven, CT, US

 
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About 

Interested in integration into driven, socially and environmentally involved projects.

Design experience from handhelds to high-rises, pencil to parametric, concrete to conjecture.

LEED Green Associate

Elsewhere:

Employment 

ZGF Architects LLP, Portland, OR, US, Architect I

+ Worked with the firmwide Project Performance Team on internal timber procurement standards.

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
 

Yale University, New Haven, CT, US, Teaching Fellow

+ Teaching fellow for Core 1 Studio under Prof. Mike Szivos
+ Teaching assistant for "The Chair" under Prof. Tim Newton

Sep 2023 - May 2024
 

Yale Building Project, Fair Haven, CT, US, Construction Intern

+ Built a two-family coliving house from foundation to finishes over the course of
three months with a dozen peers. Worked daily to translate plans, sketches, and
shop drawings into built detail.

May 2023 - Sep 2023
 

Tobi Adamolekun Design Agency, San Francisco, CA, US, Designer

+ Worked on over two dozen boutique residential and commercial projects at various scales, designing buildings and interiors from sketches and producing supportive documents.
+ Took a primary stake in the design and presentation of two major single-family residences.
+ Used Enscape to quickly arrange and render project options for presentation.
+ Researched and communicated with local vendors for information, estimates, and scheduling.
+ Templated project documentation and streamlined CAD workflows for easy design production.
+ 3d printed and hand-fabricated physical models

Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
 

Prof. Andrew Atwood, Berkeley, CA, US, Research Assistant

+ Followed an abstracted modular methodology to design houses
and ADUs for current and potential clients.

Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
 

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA, US, Architectural Intern

+ Involvement in an international commercial project from concept through
development. Master planning, facade studies, structural canopies.
+ Diagrams and presentation materials for client approval.
+ Enscape elevations for a winning HK competition submission.
+ Feasibility studies in Revit and SD-level building plans in CAD.
+ Full-scale physical mockup presented to SF city commissioner.

May 2019 - Dec 2019
 

Reed Madden Design, Berkeley, CA, US, Construction Assistant

+ Residential interior and exterior construction experience on a large-scale home renovation, including work on foundation piers, wall assemblies, structural steel, and inspection preparation.
+ Fabrication work on a 15’ steel sculpture at Point Richmond.

May 2018 - Sep 2018
 

Education 

University of California, Berkeley, Bachelors, Architecture

Graduated with high honors.
Founder, DEZINO student cooperative

Aug 2016 - May 2020
 

Awards 

Thomas Church Landscape Competition, 1st Place

2020
 

CED Circus Student Exhibition, Other

2020
 

CED Circus Student Exhibition, Other

2018
 

Raymond L. Watson Best Project Prize, Grant

2016
 

Ehmann Scholarship for Excellence in Leadership, Scholarship

2016
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills