"DESIGN SHOULD CENTER AROUND THE USER AND BE EVER MINDFUL OF ITS CONTEXT. IT IS THE CREATIVE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CLIENT, ARCHITECT, AND ENVIRONMENT THAT CREATES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR GOOD ARCHITECTURE."

- BILL PETERSON

OUR FIRM

Derby Square Architects Inc. provides personalized design services for each project. With our design philosophy, we focus on the client and not ourselves. We take the time to learn about our clients and perform thorough research for each project to ensure we offer nothing but thoughtful and effective design proposals built on a foundation of the client’s expectations and the characteristics of the end user and project site. Our core values as a firm include a healthy balance of home and work life, perpetual self improvement, and mutually beneficial and financially practical business relationships.

OUR PEOPLE

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RICHARD GRIFFIN

Principal

With over 30 years of experience as an architect, Richard co-founded Derby Square Architects, a consortium of architects in Downtown Salem. Richard originally established Richard Griffin Architects in 1998 in Salem, where he began offering architectural design services for local residents and small businesses. Richard earned a M. Arch., at Clemson University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic. He also studied at Washington University, St. Louis and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

AIA

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ALEXANDRA KONSTEVIA PETERSON

Interior Designer, Project Manager

Ksana was first inspired to pursue architecture while living in Prague, Czech as a teenager. Years later she earned a B. Arch from the Boston Architectural College where she began to build her architectural skill set. Over the last eight years she has worked in a variety of settings from retail design to urban planning to comprehensive design research. With each project she offers a healthy dose of optimism supported by rigorous research and planning. Ksana has travelled extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Eastern Asia, where she soaks up all architecture, design, and culture there is available to her, which gives her a wide array of inspirations to pull from in her design process.

Assoc. IIDA

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KYLE LOFFREDO

Kyle is an aspiring architect, and an experienced designer and drafter who brings expert BIM skills to the firm. Kyle previously worked for Shepley Bulfinch of Boston where he started in their IT department and worked his way onto their design team for several large healthcare projects. Kyle earned his undergraduate degree in Communications from Salem State University and is now working on his M. Arch degree at the Boston Architectural College.

Project Designer

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WILLIAM PETERSON

Principal

Bill attained his B. Arch degree from the Boston Architectural College. In his 18 plus years of experience he has designed multi-family housing, public safety facilities, town halls, various civic buildings, and historic preservation projects. He has also been part of commercial mixed use, retail, and restaurant developments.
Bill is a comissioned officer, Captain, in the 102d Civil Engineer Sqaudron in the Massachusetts Air National Guard working on engineering, planning, and design of base facilities.

AIA, NCARB

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KARLA NIETZSCH TINKJIAN

Project Designer

Karla is an experienced and thoughtful designer and drafter and top producer at DSA. Karla previously worked for one of the firm’s predecesors, Richard Griffin Architects, from 2013 to 2016, after working at a variety of design firms in both the Boston area as well as Minas Gerais, Brazil where she was raised and educated in architecture.


Karla has her construction supervisors license in Massachusetts and is a LEED Accrediated Professional.

LEED AP, CS

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JESSICA O'NEIL

Project Designer, Administrative Assistant

Jessie is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Interior Architecture at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. In addition to her role at Derby Square, she also tutors fellow students and serves as Secretary of the Endicott College Architecture & Design Club. Through work and school, she studies and designs the built-world which has led her to make a goal of spending her free time in the natural world.