CO Adaptive is a design and build practice founded by Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston in 2011. Within an industry highly predicated on the finished image of architecture, we seek to turn focus to the means of making and maintaining it.








Liga Brammanis
Project Manager
Associate
Carlo Cremonini, CPHT
Lead Carpenter
Peter Field
Lead Carpenter
Julie Fuchs, CPHT
Deconstruction and Fabrication Lead
Jennifer Heister
Practice Manager
Liam Higgins, CPHT
Carpenter
Will Jarrott, CPHT
Lead Carpenter
Bobby Johnston, AIA, CPHD, LEED AP
CO Founder
Principal
Kelvin Lee
Senior Designer
Ruth Mandl, AIA, DBIA
CO Founder
Principal
Miles Scanlon, CPHT
Carpenter
Dave Sidick, AIA, WELL AP
Integration Lead
Senior Associate
Sophia Strabo
Designer



All portraits by Donilee McGinnis

We are grateful for the contributions of previous team members:
Graham Billings, Henry Black, Nino Boornazian, Sam Bowstead, Andrew Brown, Virginia Brown, Jeremy Cohen, Lily Cretekos-Gross, Steve Dahlgren, Allie Fox, Leon Frazier, Seneca Gray, Paul Greenway, Sarah Gunawan, Yashil Mudaliar, Charlie Ormsby, Joshua Rosenthal, and Joanne Yau.
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