Principal
Alan Jesse Cuteri, AIA, LEED AP
Alan has over twenty-five years of planning and design experience working with institutional, corporate and private owners. Alan entered private practice in 1987 and is a founding principal of Strada.
Alan believes that his clients' money needs to buy more than bricks and mortar. Architects are tasked with the opportunity to create places that will do more than support the indoor environment. Creating places that inform and support the activities and endeavors of the user can also incorporate sustainable design concepts without increasing the construction budget. The benefits of this design approach are a heightened morale and performance of the building users, increased learning, higher operational efficiencies, and increased building value. In 1998, when Alan was president of AIA Pittsburgh he coined the phrase "Good design is good business." This phrase embodies the value of good design as an important catalyst for creating places for people.
Alan has completed hundreds of educational projects for primary, secondary and post-secondary education clients. His expertise in educational planning, programming and project management has resulted in many long term contracts for services with institutional clients.
Alan has recently led comprehensive master plans for the West Virginia University, College of Law and the University of Pittsburgh, Law School. Alan was the principal in charge of the design teams for implementation of various parts of these master plans for both Universities.
Award winning projects include the Mifflin School Expansion/Renovation, a K-8 school for Pittsburgh Public Schools, the Barco Law Library Renovation at the University of Pittsburgh, George K. Cupples Stadium and the Bio-informatics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.