Anita Delgado

At 7 years old, Anita knew she would be an architect, spending her first late night preparing floor plans, elevations, and perspectives to showcase what she wanted to be for a “show and tell” in elementary school. For playtime, she asked her parents to buy architectural stencils and house plan books, appreciating the functionality and beauty of design. After visiting a friend’s house designed by her parents who were both architects, she was awestruck and knew she had chosen the right career. “After that, there was never a question on the professional path I would follow – I wanted to recreate that feeling of functional beauty for others,” she says.

Today, she is fulfilling her lifelong dream as a leader in the Commercial Studio after starting as an intern with Corgan 15+ years ago. Every single project of Anita's has been a source of pride for her for different reasons -- some are so complex and far-reaching on the societal impact that they take a special place. One such project was Parkland Hospital, her first large project that took approximately 5 years, starting as an intern, building conceptual diagrams and physical models, and then moving to the core design team co-located with our partners HDR in a trailer village adjacent to the site. This project is where she spent over 2 years of her life making her dent in the construction documentation of the project and then serving as one of the architects on site full-time architects during construction.