Jacob Hartzell is an Architect born and raised in the Los Angeles area. He graduated with a Master's of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelors in Environmental Design with an Architecture emphasis from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Jacob received multiple scholarships and awards throughout his educational career. His thesis project at SCI-Arc was given a merit award, selected to be exhibited, and landed him in Wallpaper* Magazine's Graduate Directory for "hottest new talent in Architecture" for 2016. Jacob has over six years of professional experience. The first two years of his career began prior to graduate school with a boutique firm in Shanghai China called RED Design. There he was engaged in an array of projects types spanning Retail, Commercial, Resort, and Hospitality. While attending SCI-Arc, he took an internship with Perkins + Will in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There his focus was on Mixed -Use and Residential towers in the city. After graduating from SCI-Arc, Jacob took a position with Gensler in the Los Angeles office working in the Sports studio. His main project in that office was the LAFC stadium that he worked on from SD through the CD phase. He worked on a number of other stadium and arena projects in addition to a commercial office building. He transferred to the NY office in November of 2017 and has worked on a variety of project types including single family residential, adaptive reuse of an coal power plant, and the ground up design of a 1,600 foot tall tower.