Jerri Holan & Associates, AIA, is a nationally-recognized architectural firm with an old-fashioned mission: to create buildings connected to their context and to express these connections gracefully. The firm emphasizes buildings that resonate with tradition, celebrate building crafts, and create a bridge to today’s lifestyles. The company has received awards from the National Trust, the California Preservation Foundation, the Art Deco Society of California, the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, and the Oakland Heritage Alliance while many of the firm’s projects have appeared in international publications.

Design specialties include custom home and residential remodels; restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings; small-scale commercial construction and tenant improvements; religious structures; and educational and cultural buildings such as theaters, art galleries, dance spaces, studios, and classrooms. A portion of the firm’s services are dedicated to public interest and non-profit groups and the firm promotes sustainable building practices and encourages the use of 'green' building materials.

Client involvement is an important component of the firm’s architecture. This approach matches the client’s needs with an appropriate aesthetic language – sensitive attention to detail is a trademark of the firm’s work. Careful programming, thoughtful planning, and economic considerations are addressed early in design phases. The results are high-quality, affordable projects based on a user-oriented approach to the design process.

The firm was established in 1992 and the principal, Jerri Holan, has over 20 years of design experience in the San Francisco Bay area. Ms. Holan has worked with a number of firms in the Bay Area, most notably Christopher Alexander’s Center for Environmental Design; Christopherson & Graff, Architects; Abrams/Millikan & Associates; Servais Design & Construction; Kirk Peterson & Associates, Architects; and Lerner + Associates, Architects.

Jerri Holan and Associates’ preservation expertise exceeds the Secretary of the Interior’s Historic Professional Qualifications Standards for historical architects and architectural historians. The firm is listed with the State of California as an official historical resource consultant. Many of the firm’s projects involve compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and are subject to review by the California Office of Historic Preservation, the National & California Park Services, local historic review boards, and other agencies.

Jerri Holan is a Certified Green Building Professional as well as a State-Certified Postearthquake Assessment Volunteer. She has served on the Board for the Fulbright Alumni Association and the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association and is currently the Chair of the American Institute of Architects’ Historical Resources Committee (SF Chapter). With a minor in environmental studies, Ms. Holan completed her Masters degree at UC, Berkeley. As a Fulbright Scholar, she conducted postgraduate work at the Arkitekturhøgskolen in Oslo, Norway, which culminated in her book, Norwegian Wood, A Tradition of Building. In 1989, she was inaugurated into the “Who’s Who in American Women” and “Who’s Who in Professional Women.” Her projects are frequently exhibited in “Small Firms, Great Projects,” sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jerri Holan, Principal
Jerri Holan & Associates, AIA
The MacGregor Building
1393 Solano Avenue, Suite B
Albany, CA 94706-1811

Phone: 510.528.1079
Fax: 510.528.2079
Email: info@holanarchitects.com