For thirteen years (1987 thru 2000), I was part of the largest A&E firm in Puerto Rico, the CSA Group; the last two spent as a partner. In 2000, an old former classmate at Georgia Tech and architect-developer asked me to start a design firm for his development company. I took the opportunity to break off the multi-million-income, multi-mega-project corporation to set up Conceptos Urbanos. After two years, I let our baby go and established fournier:arquitectura csp, giving way to a life-long dream. Our firm started with just two people, Glorimar Droz (very-small-office manager!) and myself (principal-in-charge-of a-million-ideas-at-once!) and lots of unanswered questions. We were able to sign in a large account (Santa Cruz Medical Plaza) and a couple of government contracts (San Lorenzo Fire Station and several remodeling projects). Soon, we were able to engage several friends and clients into trusting our young firm with their dreams. Five years ago, AIT Amy Pérez Pouymerou (super-girl-architect) joined Glorimar and me, helping in every conceivable way and form, celebrate our early-acquired success. Seven years later, fournier:arquitectura csp is an emergent professional services corporation offering breakthrough services in Architecture, Interiors, Planing and Branding.
Currently, the firm is 6-person strong. In October 2008, we bought an old house and in February 2009, we opened our new facilities. Altogether, fournier:arquitectura csp combines the serendipitous inquisitiveness of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (NY) and the business wisdom of the CSA Group (SJ), where Jaime collaborated in his forming years.
