HMC Architects, a California-based planning and design firm, is very pleased to announce that former Studios Architecture Principal Charles Dilworth, FAIA, LEED AP, has joined them as Regional Design Director and Design Principal in their San Francisco studio. He will work with design teams across all of HMC’s markets to expand their presence and enhance their client services in the Bay Area and Northern California. This important announcement comes just 5 months following HMC’s recent merger with San Francisco-based Beverly Prior Architects.
Throughout Dilworth’s 30-year career in architecture, he has forged a reputation for bridging technology and design, resulting in award-winning, iconic buildings. Dilworth has a deep portfolio of work rooted in the public sector, which will complement HMC’s expertise in healthcare, education, justice, and civic markets. He has also held positions at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Frank O. Gehry and Associates, MBT Associates, and Tanner & VanDine.
“I have been privileged to get to know Charles over the past year, and can say that I am very much looking forward to working with him to build our growing practice in Northern California,” says HMC’s President and CEO Randy Peterson, FAIA, LEED® AP BD+C. “His experience not only aligns with our core practice areas, but he also brings an energy and collaborative spirit that is on par with the culture we have built at HMC.”
Dilworth’s notable completed projects include the Silicon Graphics North Charleston Site (now the Google Headquarters) and the Silicon Graphics Entry Site Building (now the Computer History Museum), both in Mountain View, Calif., as well as the California Department of Health Services Phase 3 in Richmond, Calif., which was the winner of a 2006 Chicago Athenaeum Award and a 2006 Business Week/Architectural Record Award of Merit. His design of the Milpitas City Hall was the winner of a 2005 Chicago Athenaeum Award. Dilworth has devoted much of his practice to public works, where he aims to invigorate civic programs with a renewed sense of openness and human spirit.
Dilworth studied architecture at Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, and a Master of Architecture. He has served as adjunct professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2007, for his contributions in Design. His work has been published in Architectural Record, World Architecture, GA Document, and Architecture magazines, as well as the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the winner of numerous awards from the AIA (California Council, San Francisco, East Bay, and Santa Clara chapters).
Dilworth is an active member of Northern California’s real estate community through his involvement with the Urban Land Institute, Lambda Alpha International (Golden Gate Chapter), SPUR (San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association) and The Bay Area Council.
