ERICA OBERTELLI
Architect, AIA
After immigrating to Boston as a child, Erica Obertelli grew up with the ongoing restoration of her family's 1820's farmhouse. Throughout her life, she has been drawn to four key values: beauty, sustainability, education, and community, finding various avenues for each of these passions: sketching, sculpting, and painting from an early age; volunteering at a startup recycling station as a teenager; sharing sustainable practices and community building as a Montessori teacher. In architecture, Erica finds work that encompasses all her passions. Upon returning to school to pursue a Masters of Architecture with a focus on sustainability, Erica was awarded several teaching assistantships and invitations to exhibit her work.
Her graduate thesis proposed a 42-acre sustainable community center and park in downtown Los Angeles, providing outdoor space, classes, community gardens and pedestrian connections to one of the most economically depressed and least verdant areas of Los Angeles. After managing several high fashion retail projects, Erica joined Bildsten Architecture and Planning, where she has taken on the design and project management for a wide variety of projects. She loves finding solutions to difficult space planning problems and sharing exciting design and sustainability concepts with colleagues and clients.
Education
California Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA, M.Arch, 2011.
Loyola University, Baltimore, MD, M.Ed (Montessori Education), 2002.
University of Dallas, College of Art, B.A. (Literature and Art), 1999.
Rome Study abroad Program, 1997.
Membership & Affiliation
AIA Associate Member 2011- Present
AIA Associate Director 2017
NCARB Member