Azadeh Zanjani
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Architecture began as a practical way to remain close to art.
What held me there was its complexity, the long process of resolving a puzzle whose effects are lived. A building may alter a cityscape, but it also shapes quieter things: how a person moves, gathers, works, heals, or feels within a space.
Design taught me that the physical world is never passive. It participates in experience. That understanding follows me into everything else I make.

APPROACH

My practice is grounded in the belief that strong design depends on both imagination and structure. I am most effective where creative thinking, technical rigor, and clear project leadership need to work together.
I enjoy helping teams move from ambiguity toward a shared direction, bringing decisions forward, keeping communication clear, and translating complex requirements into environments that feel coherent, useful, and intentional.
Across workplace, healthcare, hospitality, mixed-use, residential, retail, and education projects, I have worked closely with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal teams from early concept through construction. I approach each project with curiosity, accountability, and close attention to how people will actually experience the space.

RESUME

Licensed architect and project leader with more than 15 years of experience delivering workplace, healthcare, hospitality, mixed-use, residential, and education projects from early concept through construction.

Experience

Perkins&Will

Senior Project Manager · Seattle · 2026–Present

Leading architectural projects and multidisciplinary teams across workplace, retail, healthcare, and hospitality.

ZGF Architects

Senior Architect, Associate Principal · Seattle · 2015–2026

Led design and project delivery across workplace, healthcare, hospitality, mixed-use, and residential projects, with responsibility for design leadership, project management, client relationships, technical coordination, and construction delivery.

  • Served as primary client liaison, facilitating stakeholder alignment, decisions, and approvals.
  • Managed project scope, schedules, staffing, budgets, deliverables, and milestones across complex, multi-phase efforts.
  • Directed design strategy, interior and exterior planning, material exploration, and concept development.
  • Led multidisciplinary consultant coordination across structural, MEP, lighting, landscape, and specialty disciplines.
  • Oversaw documentation, permitting, technical quality control, and construction administration.

DIALOG

Architectural Designer · Calgary · 2011–2015

Contributed to design development, documentation, consultant coordination, permitting, and early planning for healthcare, residential, education, and mixed-use projects.

Selected Projects

  • Expedia Headquarters
  • Microsoft Campus Modernization
  • Sound Transit Return-to-Office
  • Seattle Children’s Hospital Clinic Expansion
  • Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Tower Expansion
  • F5 Tower
  • REN Tower
  • Grande Prairie Hospital
  • Vancouver Island Hospital
  • Evanston Assisted Senior Living
  • Rundle School

Core Expertise

  • Project leadership and delivery
  • Client and stakeholder engagement
  • Integrated team leadership
  • Conceptual design and planning
  • Scope, schedule, staffing, and budget management
  • Consultant and contractor coordination
  • Construction documentation and detailing
  • Code compliance and permitting
  • Quality assurance and quality control
  • Construction administration

Education

University of Calgary

Master of Architecture · 2011

Bachelor of Music · 2007

Professional Development

  • Designing the Creative & Collaborative Workplace — Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Supervising with Impact — NCARB
  • Data Decision-Making & Communication for Leaders
  • Agile Foundations

Software

Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, Smartsheet, Deltek Vision, Microsoft Office, Teams, Grasshopper, ArcGIS, and 3ds Max.

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