SENIOR ASSOCIATES

Bruce Arnold is a registered Architect with a diverse professional background as designer, project manager, and project architect on several large, multi-disciplinary projects.   Since joining the Jones & Jones in 2000, he has led teams for major museum and cultural center projects including Agua Caliente Cultural Museum in Palm Springs, California, the Southern Ute Museum and Cultural Center in Southwestern Colorado, the Hanford Reach National Monument Heritage and Visitor Center, Richland, Washington and the New Wanapum Heritage Center, Desert Aire, Washington.

Bruce approaches projects like spirited conversations amongst friends, each sharing their expertise with the common goal of informing and inspiring the public. Whether museums, libraries, landscapes, classrooms, collections, galleries, or archives, his work provides a forum for discourse among the constituent elements of community: individuals, culture and our shared environment.

Bruce believes that by engaging people in experiential, place-based design, new ways of thinking about the world around us can emerge, promoting greater awareness of how our actions affect the environment and how the environment affects us.  These interactions between a people and their place form the bedrock of culture and make beautiful, meaningful places possible.

Mark Johnson is a designer who strives to make architecture inspired by natural processes, while expressing different scales of human experience.  With undergraduate degrees in architecture and sculpture and a master’s degree in architecture from Savannah College of Art and Design, he brings a site sensibility to his work. By peeling away intertwining layers of site history and ecology, his work exhibits concepts rooted in and expressing the essence of place. For Mark, architecture does not end at the doorway, but is reciprocal with the landscape, integrating forms and natural forces to create shelter, focus, a stage, a place for life, and a place to learn.

Jennifer Knauer is landscape architect and planner with over 15 years of experience providing leadership for complex land and water conservation initiatives. Her primary focus is identifying how public spaces can be designed and managed to maximize long-term public benefits.   Jennifer’s portfolio includes an array of open space conservation, environmental planning, river and floodplain management, ecological economics and citizen participation projects. 

Over the course of her career, Jennifer has been a seasonal park ranger for the National Park Service, a university professor, social science researcher, a landscape architect for the Presidio National Park in San Francisco, California, and a private trail planning consultant.  Prior to joining Jones & Jones, Jennifer was the special projects manager for King County, Washington, where she managed planning projects including the King County Greenprint, a land acquisition and conservation strategy.    

Jennifer is currently managing Jones & Jones’s work for the Puget Sound Partnership, managing the Partnership’s working groups devoted to Land Use and Habitat and Quality of Life and Human Well-Being.

Kai Kazuto Mikami has amassed a wealth of zoological experience since he began work in zoo design at Jones & Jones over 30 years ago. He spent 18 years with Jones & Jones before opening his own firm, Sherman -Yañez - Mikami, known for its work on major zoological projects in Mexico and Southeast Asia.  Kai returned to Jones & Jones in 2007, and is currently working on premier zoo and wildlife park projects in the U.S. and the Middle East.  He believes that a close working relationship between the client and designer is crucial to excellence in design.   Kai received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967, and has been a registered architect since 1975. 

Greg Murphy utilizes collaborative planning and design to foster human connection with the natural and built environment.  Fluent in the language of urban, rural and natural environments, he has applied innovative design solutions to overlooked and neglected spaces to create healthy and inspiring landscapes.  A listener, he unites diverse interests into collaborative solutions that grow from the unique human and ecological needs of each place. 

Through his 15 years of experience, Greg has gained a deep knowledge and understanding of urban park and open space design, zoo and museum campus development, and the enhancement of natural environments.  Since joining Jones & Jones in 2004, Greg has served as project landscape architect on projects including the Jefferson Memorial Forest Master Plan in Louisville, Kentucky and Miami Metrozoo Tropical America exhibit.   In all of his work, he strives for honest use of the land and its resources, encouraging natural storm water management and energy and water efficiency. 

As an experienced landscape architect and project manager, Greg serves as a trusted advisor from project conception throughout design and construction.  An advocate for public open space and a healthy environment, he volunteers his time to the American Society of Landscape Architects Government Affairs Committee and the Architects and Engineers Legislative Council of Washington.

Charlie Scott is a registered landscape architect with more than 25 years of experience in complex planning and design projects, including parks and recreational facilities, botanical gardens, zoo exhibits, transportation facilities, corporate and university campuses, and learning centers and museums.  He has held project management and landscape architect positions from master planning through construction administration phases of projects.   He has managed a wide array of multi-faceted projects requiring the involvement of various public agencies and community-based organizations and the coordination of diversified teams of consultants and environmental specialists.

Charlie specializes in the planning and design of highways that require the careful integration of the road into sensitive landscapes and community settings.  He has developed visual quality assessments and aesthetic design guidelines for several highways, and has reconciled community concerns and objections to several controversial highway projects.  His work on the Paris-Lexington Road in Kentucky has been nationally recognized as the benchmark for context-sensitive highway design—now known as “context-sensitive solutions” by state and federal highway departments throughout the U.S.—and a superlative example of effective public involvement.

David Sorey is a landscape architect with more than 15 years of experience on a wide variety of planning and design projects, including parks and recreational facilities, interpretive centers, urban sports stadiums, zoo master plans and exhibits, museums and cultural centers and transportation facilities.  He has extensive experience in site analysis and site design at a broad range of scales, and is also skilled in visual resource assessment, transportation corridor analysis, GIS mapping, development of visual guidelines, roadway design, wildlife crossing design, and the creation of simulations.  David has developed expertise in the design of roadways in environments where visually and culturally sensitive issues require careful integration and optimal fit with the land. He is experienced with AutoCAD, Microstation, Roadworks (a roadway design and simulation program), ArcGIS, Rhino, SketchUp and Photoshop.

Osama Quotah is a registered architect with a diverse background and a strong commitment to connect architecture to culture and place.  His professional career has included a wide range of projects in the U.S. and abroad that have focused on cultural sensitivity, sustainability and community based design solutions.

Osama has served as project manager and project architect on several multi-disciplinary projects at Jones & Jones, providing programming, planning, architectural, and urban design services, including a number of museums and cultural centers.  Prior to joining Jones & Jones in 2001, Osama worked for the Amar Center, an architecture firm with offices in Jeddah and Boston.  During his tenure with Amar, his work focused on integrating traditional Hijazi and Middle Eastern Architecture with large contemporary projects and campus plans.  Osama holds a graduate degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where his thesis focused on working with Islamic communities in Brooklyn, New York to conceptualize and design a cultural and educational center.  Osama is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Seattle Chapter, Committee on the Environment.