ALEX BERGTRAUN
Alex is a Bay Area native where he began his architectural career after graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a one-year Rotary scholarship studying in Denmark. His international experience additionally includes three years working in a studio in Milan, Italy where he designed a wide variety of projects in Milan, Tuscany and Sardinia. These experiences greatly influenced his architectural sensibility and continued worldly travels augment and enrich his design vocabulary.
Upon his return from Italy, Alex established Studio Bergtraun, Architects in 1988. Alex and his wife Michelle thoroughly enjoy the Bay Area cultural life and natural wonders while trying to stay ahead of their two sons.
JANLEE WONG
Janlee Wong, a San Francisco native, received her architectural degree from UC Berkeley and has practiced architecture for over 20 years. Prior to joining Studio Bergtraun, Janlee worked at an array of local firms where her responsibilities included a 3-block mixed use project in S.F.; new single and multi-family housing around the Bay Area; the new Monterey Plaza Hotel on Cannery Row; renovations of SRO housing in S.F. Chinatown and Tenderloin districts with Asian Neighborhood Design; Cafés and Film production studios, as well as new urban town and sustainable suburban planning in California and Florida.
Janlee is a devoted parent to her two daughters and this experience, in turn, weaves well into her understanding of the function and spirit of residential architecture.
