Type | Private |
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Industry | Architecture |
Founded | 1949 |
Founder | Omer Mithun |
Headquarters | , United States |
Website | http://www.mithun.com/ |
Mithun is a multidisciplinary design firm headquartered in Seattle with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company provides integrated design services including architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, urban design and planning.
The firm was founded in 1949 by Omer Mithun, a professor of architecture at the University of Washington [1] as a private practice in Bellevue, Washington. Mithun incorporated in 1953, and became Mithun Partners in 1988. The practice moved into the historic Times Square Building in 1990, after the firm outgrew the space they moved again in 2000, after renovating their present-day headquarters on Pier 56. Mithun is now led by a board of directors, presided by Bert Gregory, FAIA, who also serves as CEO. [2]
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