People

Bringing together a diverse pool of talent around a single shared table, our company is built on an open, ongoing conversation. Founded in 1992 by Trey Trahan, the firm is intimate in size but broad in its scope. We engage in a collective questioning of how our process and work can contribute to the health of our ecologies, cities, and economies. Each member of the Trahan team is an integral part of a collaborative process that enriches our company culture and improves the quality of our work.

Ethos: Collaboration

Team

Digital Practice Manager

Ciarán Conlon

Senior Design Architect

Managing Principal, New York Studio

Liza Feoli

Director of Marketing & Strategy

Manuela Hiches

Business Development Specialist

Margaret Jankowsky

Director of Urban Design

Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Designer

Trey Trahan

Founder

Gabriela Calzada

Associate AIA

Designer

Gabriela first joined the New Orleans office in June 2021. From a young age, she had an interest in various forms of artistic expression which included drawing, photography, and dance. Gabriela’s training in modern and classical ballet helped her form a distinct spatial understanding of movement, rhythm, and balance.

A Puerto Rico native, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico before moving to Brooklyn to pursue a Master in Architecture at Pratt Institute. Through her academic work, she has explored issues of climate resilience as well as the intersections between nature and the built environment. Her interests outside architecture include thinking she can play pool like a pro and finding pocket-sized books. She also makes a really good coquito. She is a proud Puerto Rican who hopes to one day use all her acquired knowledge to make a positive impact back home.

EDUCATION
Master in Architecture, Pratt Institute, 2022
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 2018

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Graduate Assistant, Pratt Institute
Design Intern, Fiedler+Frias Architects

Careers

The quality of our work reflects the collective commitment of a diverse and engaged team. Build your career with us.

New Orleans

Business/Administrative Manager

The full-time Business/Administrative Manager position offers the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative architecture practice. The role is based in the firm’s New Orleans office. The ideal candidate will have applicable experience in a professional office environment; a positive, can-do attitude; time management skills; and the agility to pivot from one assignment to the next and back again. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Manages office administrative support activities and identifies solutions for process inefficiencies Provide ongoing bookkeeping...

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Marketing Manager

The full-time Marketing Manager position offers the opportunity to engage in challenging work within an award-winning, collaborative architecture practice in search of design excellence. The role is based in the firm’s New Orleans office. The ideal candidate will have applicable experience in an architecture or engineering firm, or related industry; a positive, can-do attitude; time management skills; and the agility to pivot from one project to the next and back again. The role manages and coordinates the firm’s marketing efforts....

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Design Architect

Trahan Architects is an international award-winning architecture firm based in New Orleans, LA, that focuses on cultural, educational, assembly, and mixed-use projects throughout the United States and overseas. The firm strives to fulfill the aspirations of clients while being mindful of the impact on both natural and social environments. Trahan’s globally recognized projects demonstrate a high level of technological sophistication coupled with a quiet sense of beauty. Notable projects include The Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta,...

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New York

Design Architect

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