Team - Mayes Office

MO | MAYES OFFICE is an award-winning, interdisciplinary design studio, with projects ranging across a spectrum of type and scale.

Each project we accept presents a different set of challenges and opportunities. Therefore, the design process must be flexible enough to accommodate and adapt to those conditions to achieve the best possible outcome. At the center of this process are drawings, models, and prototypes, which evolve and inform the work. We believe in the active involvement of our clients throughout the process of design, and seek to create a final product, which reflects this. Our work is focused on improving the lives of our clients as well as the communities and environments in which they exist.

Colby was raised in Paducah, Kentucky. He earned a 5 year-Professional Bachelor Degree from the University of Kentucky, College of Architecture in 1997. During his studies, he participated in a study abroad program with architect Daniel Libeskind in Berlin- Germany and worked for Studio Daniel Libeskind on "Stonebreath"- a memorial in Berlin commemorating the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

From there Colby moved to Southern California to work for Frank O. Gehry and Associates (FOGA) |from 1998-2004. During Colby’s tenure at FOGA as Associate Designer, he participated in many of the firm’s most innovative and award-winning projects both nationally and internationally. Most notably was Mayes’s design and technical contributions on the Marques de Riscal Hotel in Elciego, Spain, which has become Frank Gehry’s most recognized international hotel to date. Other national and international projects Mayes was involved in during his tenure at Frank O. Gehry’s include: the New Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); Canada; Astor Place Hotel, New York City; Maggie’s Cancer Center in Scotland; and The Art of the Motorcycle Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City.

In 2005, he started MAYES OFFICE | MO in Santa Monica, CA which focuses on a variety of small to large scale contemporary projects and urban design. Based in Mayes Office, MO Development | MOD was established in 2016 to provide a home for the development projects of Colby Mayes. MOD is a development firm counterpart to the design studio of Mayes Office. Currently, the firm is developing the Lowertown Courtyard Homes in Paducah, Kentucky; Prefab Lofts in Los Angeles; and Old Hickory Homes in Brentwood Tennessee.

Timothy Walsh was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He pursued his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah before moving to Eugene, Oregon to attend a graduate program at the University of Oregon. Upon completion of his undergraduate work, he moved back to Salt Lake City and specialized on residential projects. Timothy joined Mayes Office in 2018 and brings to MO focus on sustainability and has been instrumental in organizing MO’s virtual reality department. He is currently a project designer for the Blue Jay Way residence project.

Erika was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain. She graduated from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia with a degree in Building Engineering. Upon graduation, she relocated to Argentina where she worked as a teacher specializing in sustainability and environment in the Architecture faculty at the University of Buenos Aires. She is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Erika joined MO in 2017 as an assistant project designer.