Kai Broms, LEED AP
Associate Principal
San Francisco

Education

  • Masters of Architecture,
    University of California Los Angeles

  • Bachelor of Arts in Design,
    University of California Los Angeles

Registrations

  • LEED AP

Awards and Citations

  • Solutia “Doc” Design Award

  • Interior Design Best of Year Award

Kai Broms brings twenty years of professional management and design experience to the leadership of Rottet Studio. As a vital member of the Rottet Studio design team, Mr. Broms has earned a reputation for leading large-scale projects to successful completion.

Mr. Broms’ architectural and management skills are reflected in his diverse portfolio of innovative interiors projects in the U.S. and abroad. His experience as a project manager and designer provides him with detailed knowledge of the planning and building process. He is an expert in assembling a project team and ensuring that the clients’ goals and functional requirements are synthesized with the aesthetic and technical components of each project.

Mr. Broms has worked with Lauren Rottet and Richard Riveire for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Rottet Studio, Broms practiced with DMJM Rottet and its predecessor firm, Keating Mann Jernigan Rottet (KMJR). He also spent three years in the interior design studio of Audrey Alberts, working on major civic projects for the cities of Escondido, Santa Clarita and Rancho Mirage, California and residential projects in California and Arizona.

Mr. Broms’ talents also reach to the design of contract furnishings. His portfolio includes the elegant Tableau collection of casegoods for Steelcase and the versatile, wall-hung Abacus casegoods line for Halcon, both in collaboration with Lauren Rottet and Richard Riveire.

Select Awards and Publications

  • AIA / Houston Honor Award, Artis Capital Management, 2010.
  • Interior Design Best of Year Award, Artis Capital Management, 2009.
  • IIDA / Texas-Oklahoma Honor Award, Artis Capital Management, 2009.
  • IIDA / Northern California Honor Award, Artis Capital Management, 2009.
  • “Investing in Creativity,” by Edie Cohen, Interior Design, March 2009.
  • IIDA / Southern California Large Award, “Investment Management Firm,” 2009.
  • “Investment Management Firm,” by Roger Yee, Corporate Interiors, 2009.
  • Solutia “Doc” Design Award, QAD, 2005.
  • Design Journal Gold APEX Design Award, Abacus Casegoods, 2004.
  • “High Finance,” by Edie Cohen, Interior Design, May 1997.
    “Best Large Office,” by Jean Nayar, Contract, January 2003.
  • “Test Site,” by Diana Mosher, Contract, May 2005.

Select Professional Experience

  • An Investment Management Firm at 333 South Hope, 221,000 SF / Los Angeles, CA
  • An Investment Management Firm at 400 South Hope, 100,000 SF / Los Angeles, CA
  • An Investment Management Firm Operations Campus, 600,000 SF / Irvine, CA
  • Artis Capital Management, 16,000 SF / San Francisco, CA
  • TransAmerica Auditorium Remodel / Los Angeles, CA
  • CalOptima, 85,000 SF / Orange, CA
  • Deloitte & Touche Headquarters and Satellite Offices, 360,000 SF / Los Angeles, CA
  • Executive Offices for a Confidential Client, 17,000 SF / Kirkland, WA
  • FooMojo, Inc., 6,000 SF / San Francisco, CA
  • A Fortune 100 Company Asia-Pacific Headquarters, 602,780 SF / Shanghai, China
  • Great Place to Work Institute, 8,000 SF / San Francisco, CA
  • JP Morgan Chase, 141,000 SF / San Francisco, CA
  • Korea Development Bank, 1,000,000 SF / Seoul, Korea
  • MidFirst Bank, 32,000 SF / Phoenix, AZ
  • Morrison Foerster LLP, 220,000 SF / San Francisco, CA
  • QAD Software Headquarters, 80,000 SF / Carpentaria, CA
  • Sanders Morris Harris, 11,000 SF / Los Angeles, CA