(l-r) Valya Trupos, Cristina Zupcu, Sampada Pulekar, Kara McGuane, Sarah R. Farrell, Matthew Simon, Mark Diethelm, and Shannon Ponce
Boston – Margulies Perruzzi Architects (MPA) recently welcomed eight new design professionals to the firm.
Joining MPA as a senior interior designer, Valya Trupos, IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C, is a seasoned and highly creative interior designer with more than 18 years of experience working on corporate, healthcare, and hospitality projects.. Prior to joining MPA, she was a designer for several Boston-based architecture firms where she was known for the use of elemental colors and schemes in her designs.
Kara McGuane joins the firm as an interior designer, bringing experience working on a variety of projects for corporate, retail, and higher education clients. Previously, she worked as a project designer for two design firms in Boston.
Joining MPA as an interior designer, Shannon Ponce is a recent graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Her academic design work included commercial, residential, educational, and hospitality projects, including work on the National Parks Lodge in Quincy.
An architectural designer at MPA, Mark Diethelm, LEED AP, brings eight years of experience working on institutional, laboratory, mixed-use, and hospitality projects. His experience includes concept development and schematic design through construction documentation and administration.
Sarah R. Farrell, assoc. AIA, NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C, is an architectural and interior designer with more than 10 years of experience working on a diverse range of projects for commercial, healthcare, multifamily residential, and retail clients. Her experience includes design for the renovation or new construction as well as the development of standards and facility management through building information modeling for clients.
Sampada Pulekar, LEED AP BD+C, joins MPA as an architectural designer with experience in all project phases from design development through construction administration. Prior to joining MPA, she held architectural designer roles at several architecture firms in Boston.
An architectural designer at MPA, Matthew Simon previously worked as a draftsman for two architecture firms in New York, as well as a contractor’s assistant for roofing and contracting projects.
Cristina Zupcu brings 10 years of design and project management experience to her role as architectural designer at MPA. Her portfolio includes a variety of projects for corporate, institutional, laboratory, mixed-use, and residential clients.
