J A Grant has a diverse background and brings a strong understanding of client needs, visitor experience and architecture to projects.

Through working with innovative architecture offices such as Mark Cavagnero Associates in San Francisco; Diana Balmori Associates

Landscape Architect in New Haven, Connecticut and Atelier Volker Giencke in Austria; her experience has evolved to include designs for corporate

offices, school renovations, multi-family housing and public buildings, landscape architecture and urban planning.

Ms Grant has served as designer, architect, and construction administrator for projects ranged in size from 5,000 to 500,000 square feet. 

Her architecture and interior projects have included private and corporate clients, as well as merchandizing display and store design for international

and local retailers.

Civic life and participation is both an ethical and aesthetic concern for Ms. Grant.  As a result, she lectures at high schools in an effort to encourage

young minds to undertake steps towards their own involvement in the future development of their environments.  Most recently, Ms. Grant participated

in an all-day urban design charette for the City of Pittsburg, CA where she brought to the forefront  the cultural potential on the urbanscape of that city's

large hispanic population. 

Throughout, her prior career in Investment Analysis has been indispensable in grasping economic influences and its impact on design.  It is this ability to

incorporate social, financial and aesthetic components which makes her approach to the architectural inquiry unique.

Education

Yale University, School of Architecture -  Masters in Architecture, 1999