Rajah Bose
PRESIDENT
SERVING FASF SINCE 2025
Rajah is a licensed architect and design enthusiast - originally from Santa Fe and educated in San Francisco at California College of the Arts. He has a deep interest in alternative materials, innovative building practices, and sustainable preservation and innovation regarding our beautiful city of Santa Fe. Rajah joined the FASF board in 2025, and hopes to engage with other local designers, policy makers, and visionaries to keep scrutinizing how we’ve evolved, and where to go from here.
Gayla Bechtol, AIA
VicE President
serving FASF since 2018
Gayla Bechtol, founder of Gayla Bechtol Architect, practiced deep democracy while leading the citizens of Santa Fe to the award-winning Santa Fe Railyard. GBA is a design-centered architecture/urban design/historic preservation practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico creating award-winning designs for homes, institutions and urban spaces for over 27 years in New Mexico, Colorado and Texas. She received her Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California where she developed a passion for design, theory, love of architecture, context and collaborative planning.
Robert Innis
SECRETARY
design charrettes PROGRAM co-chair
serving fasf since 2021
Always a passionate advocate for design that empowers people and places, Robert Innis applies his 28 years of experience as a designer to working for businesses and organizations committed to design strategy, social impact and cultural change. A graduate of the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP), Robert has created award-winning campaigns, branded community and statewide coalitions, has been a guest speaker, adjunct professor and mentor to design students throughout Northern New Mexico. Robert is the co-owner of Rinse Design and co-founder of the Design Corps—a place-based alliance of design professionals dedicated to cultivating projects that serve the social good. Robert dedicates nearly all of his family time to exploring, hiking and honoring every nook and cranny of New Mexico and the Southwest. (He always hopes to fill the rest with quiet time and reading books!)
Deirdre Harris
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
design charrettes program co-chair
SERVING FASF SINCE 2021
Deirdre Harris is an architect whose work is motivated by a passion for connecting people with buildings and the natural environment. She grew up on the Canadian prairies and received her education at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with degrees in architecture and landscape architecture. She has practiced in both fields for over 25 years, working on a wide range of projects in Canada, California, and New Mexico. Deirdre is a senior associate at DNCA architects, where she has focused on a number of award-winning cultural and fine arts projects.
Anthony Guida, AIA
serving fasf since 2016
Anthony Guida is an architect, educator, and sustainable design leader. He has directed design offices in Los Angeles and Santa Fe and has held faculty positions at the University of Cincinnati, Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA, and the USC School of Architecture. With non-profit think tank Architecture 2030, he developed academic initiatives, professional training, conferences, and publications to advance zero carbon building design in the US and abroad. Anthony is an architect with the National Park Service and serves on the City of Santa Fe’s Historic Districts Review Board.
Carlos Gemora
SERVING FASF SINCE 2020
Carlos Gemora is an urban planner working to facilitate creative changes in the built environment. He is focused on transformative change, specifically regarding land use, affordable housing, socio-economic justice, and long-term infrastructure planning. Carlos studied regional, community-based, facilitative planning practices at Cornell University and the Evergreen State College and has previously worked in New York and Washington State. He volunteers his time with educational non-profits like Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Telluride Association.
Lisa Gavioli
advancement and development
serving FASF since 2019
Having worked in planning, development, and historic preservation for more than 17 years, Lisa Gavioli recognizes that the importance of saving old buildings lies not just in preserving the physical fabric of place but in creating the opportunity for living people to tell their stories, to connect with the past, and to derive meanings that can shape their community’s future. Lisa received her Master’s Degree in Community and Regional Planning and Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of New Mexico, and studied Ancestral Puebloan archaeology at the University of Arizona, where she received a Master of Arts in Anthropology. Lisa is a Real Estate Development Project Director at Homewise, where she contributes her land use planning skills and strategic vision to expanding Santa Fe's homeownership opportunities.
Lila Pickus
serving FASF since 2020
Lila Pickus is a spatial designer with a passion for storytelling. Her work, which straddles disciplines, explores site-specific narratives through the reuse of buildings, landscapes, and discarded materials. Working two-dimensionally as a printmaker and three-dimensionally as an architectural designer, Lila’s research and creative practice draws on physical traces of memory to explore the intersection of architecture, fine art, history, and exhibition design.
Lila holds a Master of Design in Interior Architecture, Adaptive Reuse from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Studio Art from Colorado College. She currently works as the Head of Exhibit Services for the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Museum Resources Division.