William S. Faust, Jr., AIA

William Faust is a founding member of Atelier Architects. His primary responsibilities are design, project management and the daily operations of the firm. In addition to overseeing the firm's practice, he works with each project team to develop design concepts, schedules, budgets, and procedures. His experience in taking projects from inception through completion, has given him a special expertise in creating and managing projects which fulfill the client's needs and expectations within the realities of deadlines and budgets.

In more than 25 years of professional practice Mr. Faust has handled a wide range of projects of varied scale and complexity.

Mr. Faust's professional design portfolio includes commercial, residential, retail, hospitality, and health care facilities, as well as architectural interiors. His work on behalf of clients includes, but is not limited to the conversion of Philadelphia's historic Curtis Publishing Building into "Class A" office and retail space, the development of the 165-bed Holy Cross Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, the design of a two building Apartment/Retail complex in the Historic District of Paterson, NJ which included the historic renovation of a turn of the century Mill Building, and the design of a number of major hotel complexes in urban and suburban settings from Pennsylvania to Florida.

Prominent among Mr. Faust's architectural interior projects is the recent renovation and alteration of Metropolitan Square, and the office space for SFInteractive, both are located in Washington, DC. Mr. Faust was a Senior Associate at Oldham & Seltz before cofounding Atelier Architects. He was also a design architect at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Perkins & Will, both in Washington, D.C.; LBC&W in Alexandria, Virginia and CE Maguire in Waltham, Massachusetts.

In 1981 he received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies from the University of Maryland. He is a registered architect in the states of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Faust is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He has participated in projects for Community Design Services, a program of the Washington Architectural Forum dedicated to providing professional design services to low income communities. Since 1993, Mr. Faust has been a member of the Advisory Board for St. Matthias Apostle School in Lanham, Maryland.