Chris is the founding partner of CKA Architects. A native of Saratoga, California, he has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area cultivating an understanding of local communities from the South Bay to San Francisco. He is a licensed Architect in the State of California and has earned a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Oregon. Chris’ training includes working on a construction crew and interning at two Bay Area residential design firms. When not sketching or visiting construction sites, Chris loves spending his time outdoors–playing tennis, gardening, hiking or biking with friends and family.

A lifelong learner and an avid traveler, Travis has honed his design and artistic sense while living in China, Germany, India, and New York City. He is a graduate of Harvard University and, before partnering with CKA Architects, ran his own multi-disciplinary design practice in the Bay Area, swung a hammer building custom homes on Martha’s Vineyard, and built bespoke furniture in Berlin. When he’s not at the drafting table or on the job site, you will find him in his art studio or in the kitchen cooking world cuisine and drinking great wine with his family and friends. In his design practice he loves finding the right balance between the precious and the practical.