Christina Girerd Loud, Architect
Licensed Architect in the State of California since 1991. CA License #C22899
Bachelor of Architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California

I have been in private practice since 1992, focusing primarily on residential design and 3D visualization.

From 1989 to 1992, I was the CAD Manager for Spencer Associates in Palo Alto, California. In addition to developing and organizing the firm’s CAD capabilities, I worked on a variety of projects, including a new 200,000 SF Humanities Building for San Francisco State University. Other local firms I have worked for include DES Associates in Redwood City and Carter/Cody Associates in Palo Alto.

While attending Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, I participated in the early years of the CAD revolution by beta-testing CAD software and completing the Architecture Department’s first computer drafted senior project – an office park on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park.

That’s the end of the professional blurb. Here are some comments just for fun about my earlier preparations for this career.

I began with extensive block-building in my toddler years, followed by designing houses for my dolls in elementary school. As a family, we toured partially built houses on the weekends, and my contractor father would quiz me on which rooms were which, with only studs and rough plumbing showing. In junior high, I took architectural drafting and completed my first set of residential working drawings – all four pages! (And no, sorry, you can’t get your project through the city planning department with only four pages anymore.) In 8th grade, after listening to a visiting architect, I decided I wanted to be an architect and attend Cal Poly. Some summers, I worked with my father in his construction and estimating business. I continued to take architectural drafting classes in high school and doodled innumerable floor plans on graph paper during the rest of my classes. The bottom line – I really enjoy what I do and I look forward to helping you with your project!