Cesar Arturo Vasquez del Mercado, AIA

Arturo is an accomplished architect, urban designer, and educator with exemplary experience in practice. Arturo brings a rigorous design vision and a collaborative team-based working spirit. He has over thirty-five years of experience merging design practice, master planning, and urban design solving complex sites and programs in mixed-use, transit-oriented development, multifamily, healthcare, and education. Arturo has worked with private and public-sector entities, developers, institutions, community-based organizations, and city regulatory agencies leading teams on projects that involve a variety of alternative delivery methods including Design-Build, P3, Design Assist, and Big Room IPD.

Throughout his career, Arturo’s design work, built projects, and design competitions have received numerous national and international honors and awards recognition. A life-long educator and mentor, he has taught, lectured and spoken at prominent colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Arturo is a registered architect in New York State and NCARB Certified.