Stuart Silk
Founding Partner
Craft, art, imagination, and functionality merge into one, in the making of lasting architecture. The process requires patience, a great team, and an extraordinary client who is as engaged and as committed as we are.
~ Stuart Silk
Stuart Silk, a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, founded Stuart Silk Architects in 1981. Under Stuart’s direction, the firm has received local, regional, and national recognition for its innovative and high-quality residential designs.
Amanda Cavassa
Partner
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Amanda has a passion for residential architecture and brings creativity and a keen eye for detail to all of her work.
David Marchetti
Partner
When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
~ Christopher Alexander
David has a well-balanced understanding of the technical, environmental, and cultural aspects of residential architecture.
Lisa Behringer
Lead Interior Designer
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent van Gogh
Lisa creates enduring interiors. Her creative ideas are grounded by questions about both people and place.
Jamie Blackard
Project Manager
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
~ Glenn Murcutt
Jamie is a Project Manager at Silk Cavassa Marchetti with previous experience in firms around the greater Seattle area designing buildings in higher education, science and technology, civic, and residential realms.
Erik Bredberg
Associate
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
~ Renzo Piano
Working for a number of firms in the greater Seattle area, Erik has developed his experience in commercial, ecclesiastical, mixed-use, and custom residential work.
Curtis Carlson
Controller
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Muhammad Ali
Curtis facilitates the service and retail billings for our clients, manages the payroll and benefits for our employees and maintains records and accounts with day-to-day bookkeeping tasks.
Katie Carrasco
Office Administrator
Start by doing what is necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
Katie is the Office Administrator at Stuart Silk Architects, with over 10 years of managerial and administrative experience.
Benjamin Emery
Staff Designer
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett
Benjamin has experience developing master plans, U.S. embassies, civic and commercial buildings but has recently recognized his love for residential and found a home at Stuart Silk Architecture.
Milica Golic
Staff Designer
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Milica joined Stuart Silk Architects in the spring of 2019 as a Staff Designer with international experience in residential and non-residential projects. She established her foundation as a student of architecture when she worked with a world-renowned Italy-based architect.
Ivona Hagerty
Interior Designer
Creating never happens in those big gestures that the final product suggests in the end.
~ Christoph Niemann
Ivona is assisting the Interior Design group at Stuart Silk Architects as an Intern.
Kristin Hensley
Interior Designer
Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
~ Alvar Aalto
Kristin’s passion for Interior Design started at a young age and was inspired by her love of art, which grew into a meaningful career path.
Eric Henyey
Project Architect
In the end, when the building becomes part of living, it evokes unmeasurable qualities, and the spirit of its existence takes over.
~ Louis Kahn
Eric works on a range of traditional and contemporary projects, including both new construction and renovations.
Iris Rilling
Staff Designer
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
~Zaha Hadid
Iris Rilling is a Staff Designer with Stuart Silk Architects. Her background includes work in residential, commercial, transportation, and mixed-use buildings.
Hilary Rose
Project Manager
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
~ Yoshio Taniguchi
For over 15 years, Hilary has worked on custom residences in the Greater Seattle Area. Her work includes a wide range of design styles including Modern, Mediterranean, Northwest Contemporary, and Rustic Mountain Homes.
Natalie Schultz
Interior Designer
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
~ Eero Saarinen
Natalie embraces the notion that design and space reflect the clients’ needs in an elegant manner. Her mission is to create meaningful spaces that please the client and stand the test of time.
Gabriel Vargas
Project Manager
He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification, shall find disappointment. He who considers himself a servant of his fellow beings, shall find joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression, shall fall to the pit of arrogance. Arrogance is incompatible with nature. Through nature, the nature of the universe and the nature of man, we shall seek truth. If we seek truth, we shall find beauty.
~ Moshe Dafdie
Gabriel’s passion has always been excellence in creative design while being conscious of any impacts to the environment.
Sean Wilson
Project Manager
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
~ Steven Holl
Sean’s architectural experience has included single family residences, multi-family communities, commercial tenant improvement, and public parks projects located in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.