FitzGerald Associates
Farid Zerbo is an Associate Architect at FitzGerald since August 2021, with a previous role as an Architectural Designer at Nia Architects from January 2020 to August 2021. Farid began the professional career as an Architectural Intern at Jaeger Nickola Kuhlman & Associates, Ltd Architects, contributing to senior housing master planning and client presentations. Earlier experiences include participating in a design-build project for a community pavilion in Loiza, Puerto Rico, and serving as a peer tutor in architecture classes. Farid's foundational experience includes an internship at SOL CONFORT ET DECOR, assisting with project schedules and client meetings. Farid holds a Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, along with an Associate of Arts in Architecture from the Community College of Philadelphia.
FitzGerald Associates
With roots dating back more than 100 years, FitzGerald is a national architecture, interior design, and sustainability firm committed to the creation of exemplary environments that better our world. Located in Chicago and Denver with projects across the country, the firm’s interdisciplinary design portfolio includes master-planned communities, residential buildings, commercial and industrial facilities, banks, restaurants, retail spaces, and over 100 conversions and restorations of historic structures. A key player in the multifamily market, FitzGerald has designed tens of thousands of residences in multifamily, urban-scale mixed-use, senior, and student-oriented housing developments. The firm’s approach is rooted in the combination of innovative solutions and comfortable, buildable designs. FitzGerald’s team of industry leaders knows what it takes to create good design and is skilled in navigating codes, local ordinances, and approval requirements to bring communities to life and balance health and sustainability initiatives with affordability and constructability. Its diverse community of talented people recognizes the lasting impact of the built environment on quality of life and advocates for each community’s concerns, needs, and desires. With extensive knowledge of the latest architectural and building technologies, FitzGerald’s services include architectural design, space planning and interior design, sustainable design, site planning and design, adaptive reuse, green building certifications, building systems commissioning, building condition assessment, energy optimization, consultancies on building accessibility, and tenant improvement services.