About ARK

Founded in late June 1987 by its president Faramarz Jabbari AIA, NCARB, an Iranian American architect as “ARK Architects & Planning”; ARK  Architects Inc., a greater San Diego firm has provided professional services as the architect of record in the preparation of design and construction  documents as well as master planning, and in some cases neighborhood  planning for many large-scale multifamily residential developments, mixed use projects and commercial retail developments in California as well as the states of Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Washington and Oregon, some of which have received various accolades and acknowledgement.

A native Iranian, Mr. Jabbari received his Bachelors of Architecture and Masters in Architecture from Tehran University in 1973. From 1972 to 1974, Mr. Jabbari held a position with the government of Iran at the Building Department of Red Lion & Sun (the Iranian equivalent to the Red Cross). In 1974, he started his own company. Upon his migration to the United States in 1979, Mr. Jabbari became affiliated with Hope Architects and Engineers (formerly the Hope Consulting Group), Dale Naegle and Associates, Inc. in La Jolla, California, and the M.W. Steele Group, Inc.