By Daily Press staff
Rey III Viquez and Gretchen Wahab, who collectively have more than 20 years of experience in the architecture and interior design fields, have joined Widom Wein Cohen O’Leary Terasawa (WWCOT) as directors in the firm’s interior design group, announced Interiors principal Ben Levin, AIA.
Viquez joins WWCOT as director of interior design. Prior to joining the firm he was with Gensler, where he worked with numerous corporate and entertainment clients, including BMW, KB Home, 20th Century Fox, Disney and Dreamworks. After receiving BA degrees in interior architecture and fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Viquez earned his MA from UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1995.
Gretchen Wahab, who is an accredited certified interior designer with more than 10 years experience working with some of the nation’s largest architectural firms, joins WWCOT as director of strategic planning. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Wahab was with Gensler, where she was responsible for strategic and tactical planning, programming and interior design. Previous to Gensler, Wahab was an interior designer for Johnson Fain Partners, working on projects for Amgen, NBC and the state of California. Wahab earned a BA in interior design and MA in interior preservation and conservation from Michigan State University.
Also joining the firm’s interior design division is Lisa Munoz. Munoz who spent the majority of her career with American International Group in New York and then was with ISI ’s Los Angeles office, where as a project designer she worked with McDonalds and numerous educational facilities. Munoz is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, with degrees in architecture and interior design.
Recognized as one of the fastest-growing architectural firms in the nation, Santa Monica-based WWCOT is a more than 100-person, firm with offices in Riverside, Santa Monica, Moorpark, Palm Springs, and Shanghai, China. A full-service firm, WWCOT provides programming, strategic and master planning, architectural and interior design, architectural forensics, and construction support services for a wide range of healthcare, governmental, educational, senior living, multi-family residential and corporate clients. Santa Monica Fairmont gets new GM
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 17, 2005. Read the original PDF.