OUR TEAM

Tak Katsuura, AIA

Principal, Project Design Director

Tak Katsuura has over 17 years of experience designing a range of projects, including retail, residential and master planning. Since joining TCA in 2014, Tak has been the lead designer on numerous multifamily and mixed-use projects, taking them from concept, to entitlements, to schematic design. He was responsible for the design of 1950 Addison, a seven-story infill building located in downtown Berkeley; Modera Rincon Hill, a high-rise in San Francisco; and Sand City, a master plan with two hotels and two residential buildings. Tak enjoys designing urban sites to support the revitalization of cities and communities.

Before joining TCA, Tak worked as a design director at JRDV Architects in Oakland, CA. At JRDV, he led the design of both international and local projects including Suzhou Village (Suzhou, China), Shanghai Village (Shanghai, China), the Oakland Coliseum Specific Plan (Oakland, CA) and San Pedro Market (San Jose, CA.) The San Pedro Market project was awarded the AIA Santa Clara Valley Chapter Design Merit Award and the San Jose Business Journal’s Community Impact Award.

Tak is a Bay Area native and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently lives in Oakland and enjoys building furniture and Japanese woodworking.

ARCHITECTURE LICENSE

C-37673

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Arts in Architecture

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA