Anne Schopf FAIA
Design Partner
A dedicated champion of design excellence with environmental stewardship, Anne provides inspired leadership in her role as Design Partner at Mahlum. An award-winning architect, teacher, speaker, critic and mentor, she pushes for work that expands design dialogue, cross-pollinates ideas, enriches communities and integrates approaches to green design. Anne is widely recognized for advancing sustainable design knowledge and practice, and was honored with the 2008 Puget Sound Better Bricks Award for architecture. Her projects and professional activism highlight the inextricable links that bind our lives and our buildings to the environment — enhancing the discourse on design and place. She recently served as the 2011 Chair of the AIA national Committee on Design (COD) Advisory Group and a peer reviewer for the General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program. She is a frequent juror for awards programs, including AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Green Awards, AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) healthcare design awards and the 2009 AIA National Honor Awards for Architecture. With over five years serving on the AIA Seattle Board, including one as AIA Seattle President, Anne has advocated on behalf of the profession for design solutions that represent significant cultural and environmental value.
Gerald [Butch] Reifert FAIA
Managing Partner
An engaging and visionary leader, Butch guides the practice in pursuit of values-based work that enriches community. His inclusive style encourages an integrated approach to design with shared responsibility — together with subconsultants and peers — to push for the best work possible. An impassioned advocate for learning environments, Butch leads projects for K-12, college and university clients. He is a gifted communicator who is often called on to help educational institutions pinpoint program needs, articulate ambitious goals and create a seamless design process that delivers excellent architectural solutions with a high degree of community engagement. Butch speaks frequently at AIA national conventions and organizations focused on school facilities planning and administration. He serves as a frequent juror for AIA awards programs at the state and national levels, including the 2008 and 2009 Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) Educational Facility Design Awards. In 2007, he chaired the AIA CAE Fall Conference and serves on the AIA CAE Leadership Group, applying his knowledge of design innovation trends to advance educational and environmental priorities. He was also a founding member of the governor-appointed Washington State Capital Projects Advisory Review Board.
Diane Shiner AIA LEED AP
Operations Partner
Diane leads the Portland office, spearheading some of the firm’s most complex assignments. With close to 30 years of professional experience, her project reach is vast, from facility long-range planning projects to facility assessments and improvement plan development for school districts, universities and healthcare clients. Her command of technical master planning and space programming is unmatched, which she shares generously through her involvement in such organizations as the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI), and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). A steadfast advocate for sustainable design, Diane has assisted clients with dozens of post-occupancy evaluations to measure building performance and extend knowledge for future projects. A frequent presenter at industry conferences — including the 2008 ASHE Planning, Design and Construction Conference; American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) 2009 Congress on Healthcare Leadership; and Oregon School Boards Association 2007 Bonds & Ballots Conference — she reinforces feedback loops to ensure that innovative strategies and lessons learned reach a broad audience and have impact within the built environment. She currently serves on the board of the Innovation Partnership, an Oregon-based non-profit focused on sustainable solutions for communities.