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Anderson Brulé Architects Celebrates 40 Years of Transforming Communities, Transitions to ABA Studios
San José, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 — Anderson Brulé Architects proudly celebrates 40 years of providing architectural, interior design, and planning services to communities across California. Marking this milestone, the firm is adopting a new name, ABA Studios, reflecting a refreshed identity that expresses the direction and vision of its new generation of leadership.
Founded in 1984 by Pamela Anderson-Brulé, FAIA, and Pierre Brulé, the award-winning firm has spent four decades creating places imbued with purpose and meaning that celebrate learning, community, culture, and wellness. Today, as Pamela’s and Pierre’s successors steer the firm, Anderson Brulé Architects enters a new era as ABA Studios, reflecting new perspectives while maintaining a core commitment to its foundational principle of serving the public good through strategic, community-building planning and design where both process and personal engagement enable more effective outcomes.
“Our new name signals our continued evolution as a firm as we adapt to our clients’ needs to address critical operational, environmental, and societal challenges in a holistic manner,” said President and Managing Principal Lee Salin, FAIA. “It also honors our roots and celebrates the legacy Pam and Pierre have created.”
As part of its 40th-anniversary celebration, ABA Studios is unveiling a refreshed logo, an updated website, and a strategic name change that underscore a renewed emphasis on a values-driven practice that creates not just buildings but enduring places that welcome people to interact and thrive together. These changes align with the firm’s principles of bridging the ideal and the practical, harmonizing multiple perspectives, and designing with joy and curiosity. Celebrating diversity, promoting equity, and practicing inclusion are also guiding principles for the firm, of which women comprise three-quarters of the staff.
“As we celebrate this remarkable milestone, we’re looking to the next 40 years with enthusiasm,” said Design Principal Mark Schoeman. “ABA Studios will continue to explore bold solutions, innovate thoughtfully, and play a role in strengthening California communities with environments that help people thrive both individually and collectively.”
Throughout its history, ABA Studios has earned acclaim for many of its projects, including award-winning libraries, academic institutions, and civic spaces. Notable projects include the joint-use Martin Luther King Jr. Library for the City of San José and San José State University, CSU East Bay’s CORE Library, Academic Core Buildings for Ohlone College, the City of Salinas’ El Gabilan Library, Santa Cruz Public Library’s Aptos Branch, Stanford Health Care’s Samaritan Drive Medical Office Renovation, and the UCSF-WHHS Cancer Center.
About ABA Studios
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, San José-based ABA is an architecture, interiors, and strategic planning firm dedicated to working with clients across California in the Education, Community, and Health & Wellness sectors. Since 1984, the firm has expressed its vision of design through the creation of welcoming, sustainable, and community-oriented buildings from schools and libraries to community centers and healthcare spaces. The leadership generation succeeding founders Pamela Anderson-Brulé, FAIA, and Pierre Brulé consists of principals Lee Salin, FAIA, and Mark Schoeman, AIA; associate principals Katherine Rivard, Krista Nelson, AIA, and Jason Hull, AIA; and associate JuanCarlos Fematt, AIA. To learn more, visit aba-arch.com.
