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"While diversity is the cornerstone of MVE & Partners' expertise and portfolio, there is one common principle that defines our practice - the creation of contextual solutions for improved quality of life and the advancement of community."
Parking lots can become urban villages, and decaying streetscapes can be revitalized to frame urban places, if the right urban design and master planning is applied - so contends Ernesto Vasquez, AIA, Founding Partner of MVE & Partners.
Far from begrudging the political process attendant to urban revitalization, Vasquez embraces interaction with tenant groups, voters and homeowners, housing and transportation authorities, redevelopment agencies and school districts, to bring the goals of the community to fruition and improve the final product. Vasquez deeply honors the principles of smart growth, promoting the use of public transit, sidewalk communities and mixed-use developments. He creates environments that are socially and environmentally responsible, as well as economically viable - and his enthusiasm is usually the best ambassador from developers to community.
Since joining with firm founder Carl McLarand in 1976, Vasquez has led design teams on more than 900 projects, many of which have won national or regional design and planning awards. Vasquez and MVE & Partners have been active internationally as well, with projects in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, Australia, United Arab Emirates, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Korea.
Bachelor of Architecture, with Honors, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
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