KALI GORDON

“ you can’t serve from an empty vessel”

ABOUT KALI

Kali Gordon is a multidisciplinary designer, architect AIBC and creative director whose work moves between architecture, brand, space, and place. With a background spanning industrial and visual communication design and architecture, she brings both big-picture vision and attention to detail to projects of many scales.

With more than 17 years of professional experience in Canada and the U.S., she has worked across private, public, and nonprofit sectors and through a wide range of project types and scales.

Her work explores the connections between identity and place, how a story becomes a space, how a brand becomes an experience and how thoughtful design can help people connect with the places they inhabit. Her practice includes branded environments, creative direction, placemaking, way-finding and signage, community design and architecture.

Kali is drawn to complex projects that benefit from cross-disciplinary thinking, collaboration and a willingness to explore possibilities before defining the answer. She brings intuition, human empathy and a macro-to-micro approach to every project, connecting vision with the details that make any idea tangible.

Kali leads R/A’ s creative direction and design work across brand + identity, branded environments, place making, way-finding and signage, community and destination projects and architecture.

AREA OF FOCUS

EDUCATION + BOARDS

University of Alberta | Bachelor of Design - Industrial Design & Visual Communications

University of British Columbia | M.Arch

Licensed Architect | British Columbia, Canada

Appointed to City of Ukiah Design Review Board

KEY PAST PROJECTS

1075 Market Street Residences | San Francisco | While at Levy Design Partners

Pipelet - Parklette | San Francisco | while at YAX - Youth Art Exchange

Candlestick Park Mixed Use Redevelopment Project | San Francisco | While at G7A under Smithgroup JJR

T’it’qet First Nations Community Hall and Health Center | B.C, Canada | While at Urban Arts Architecture

UBC Engineering Students Center | Vancouver | While at Urban Arts Architecture

AWARDS

AIA SF IMPACT AWARD - YAX Lead Architecture Faculty

Woodworks! Provincial Award - T’it’qet Community Center

Merric Architecture Graduating Prize - University of British Columbia, M.Arch.

PAST PROJECT PHOTOS