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Perkins Eastman Continues International Growth With Expansion of Mumbai, India Office
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Principal and Executive Director Aaron Schwarz FAIA to Lead New Fully Staffed Architecture and Planning Office
The Board of Directors of top international planning and design firm Perkins Eastman is pleased to announce that
Principal and Executive Director Aaron B. Schwarz FAIA will relocate full time to the firm's Mumbai, India office as of
September 2010. Schwarz will act as the managing director for the office while still maintaining his firm-wide executive
director responsibilities. In Mumbai, Schwarz will build on the firm's local presence by expanding the office opened in
2008 with an international staff of at least 20 over the next year.
Perkins Eastman has an international reputation for expertise in education, healthcare, urban design, senior living, and
mixed-use developments. With exciting opportunities in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Chandigarh, the firm's current
projects in India include the new Indian School of Business (ISB) Mohali Campus and the Saifee Burhani Bhendi Bazaar
Master Plan in Mumbai.
Once in Mumbai, Schwarz will join Associate Principal Smita Rawoot, who permanently relocated to Mumbai in 2008 to
support the firm's local business development efforts. As director of business development, she will continue to act as a
client liaison while helping to build the office's capabilities. The management team expects to swiftly build an international
architectural staff who will be fully engaged with the local architectural community.
"We are working with many fine local architectural firms in India, and still plan to work with these and other firms in the
future. Our investment in India will enable us to provide the services we are already providing more
intensely and expediently," comments Schwarz.
Schwarz has led design teams on award-winning projects and has experience managing and designing projects of
various types and complexities. Additionally, he and the Mumbai office will have the firm's global program and planning
experts at their immediate disposal. Having traveled extensively between Mumbai and New York City over the past 18
months, Schwarz says of the expanded office, "After many opportunities to support superb clients in India through our US
offices, the time is right for us to build a full service design team in Mumbai. We believe that our present and future clients
will benefit from our ability to more seamlessly provide design expertise and
project management with our international team in India."
About Perkins Eastman
Perkins Eastman is among the top architecture and design firms in the world. The firm prides itself on inventive and
compassionate design that enhances the quality of the human experience. Because of its depth and range, Perkins
Eastman takes on assignments from niche buildings to complex projects that enrich whole communities. The firm's
practice areas include education, housing, healthcare, senior living, corporate interiors, cultural institutions, public sector
facilities, retail, office buildings, and urban design. Perkins Eastman provides award-winning design through its domestic
offices in New York, NY; Boston, MA; Arlington, VA; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Oakland, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; and
Stamford, CT; and internationally in Dubai, UAE; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Mumbai, India; Shanghai, China; and Toronto,
Canada.
Contact:
Steven Yates
Director of Communications
115 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
+1-646-250-6830
s.yates@perkinseastman.com
SOURCE: Perkins Eastman
CONTACT: Steven Yates
Director of Communications
+1-646-250-6830
s.yates@perkinseastman.com
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