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Elina Cardet is an award-winning architect and designer with extensive global experience, and is renowned for her integrative approach to civic, cultural, workplace, hospitality, residential, and education projects. Her designs are not only socially and environmentally innovative but also crafted to create truly immersive and unforgettable experiences. Cardet’s work is recognized for her thoughtful balance of applied technology and artistic execution, and is characterized by a timeless sense of modernity, meeting the diverse needs of clients with visionary solutions that embrace the future. As a design leader and Principal at Arcadis, Cardet brings a collaborative approach to generating future-ready solutions. With a focus on Workplace’s design excellence, Cardet is continuing to grow the business and helping lead the design across other practice areas. Her relentless commitment to human-centric design, innovation, regenerative design, sustainability, and socially responsible solutions, position her as an inspiring force for positive change within the architecture and design industry. As Design Director, Interiors, Perkins&Will, Cardet led and expanded teams across multiple studios, earning accolades for design excellence and securing awards in all practice areas. At Gabellini Sheppard Associates, her leadership in sustainable brand-driven designs reshaped luxury retail, commercial spaces, hospitality venues, and public areas through new construction and adaptive reuse projects. Cardet’s commitment to environmental stewardship earned her an Aveda Global Stewardship Award. As the Design Director for Aveda, she demonstrated her talent for sustainable interior architecture, creating international retail design prototypes and revisioning over 45 retail stores worldwide.
Notably, Cardet played a pioneering role in implementing the Cradle-to-Cradle (Circular) Design Strategy as Architectural Design Director at The Moderns, collaborating with esteemed experts in the field. With a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania, Cardet’s influence extends even further as a member of the Mentorship Board at FIU Interior Architecture Master’s Program.
Elina Cardet is an award-winning architect and designer with extensive global experience, and is renowned for her integrative approach to civic, cultural, workplace, hospitality, residential, and education projects. Her designs are not only socially and environmentally innovative but also crafted to create truly immersive and unforgettable experiences. Cardet’s work is recognized for her thoughtful balance of applied technology and artistic execution, and is characterized by a timeless sense of modernity, meeting the diverse needs of clients with visionary solutions that embrace the future. As a design leader and Principal at Arcadis, Cardet brings a collaborative approach to generating future-ready solutions. With a focus on Workplace’s design excellence, Cardet is continuing to grow the business and helping lead the design across other practice areas. Her relentless commitment to…
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