SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Design and consulting firm Arup has added Felicia Cleper-Borkovi, AIA, to its San Francisco, California office. She is an architect with specific expertise in medical planning and in orchestrating inter-disciplinary healthcare design teams.As a principal and expert medical planner, she will play a pivotal role in the firm’s healthcare business, strengthening its ties with the healthcare community and advising owners, designers and operators on synchronizing strategic operational improvements with innovative design.
Cleper-Borkovi’s healthcare projects integrate architecture, clinical planning, landscape, interior architecture, lighting, art and environmental design. Her past projects include Li Ka Shing Foundation Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Laguna Honda Replacement Hospital in San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Meyer Children’s Hospital in Florence, Italy, the New Acute Hospital for the SouthWest in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Prior to joining Arup, she held leadership positions at Anshen+Allen in San Francisco and London and Aditazz.
She has a Master of Architecture degree from Ion Mincu Academy of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest and post-graduate degrees from the Royal College of Art in London, Domus Academy in Milan, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Said Business School at Oxford.
