Carly Gertler has been a key leader in the design and delivery of Herzog & de Meuron’s institutional and cultural projects around the world. Beginning with the firm in 2015, she relocated from Basel, Switzerland to San Francisco to help launch the firm's West Coast studio in 2021. Carly has been an Interior Team Lead and a key member of the donor support group on the UCSF Health Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco for the last four years. A beginning member of the project team, Carly has been involved from concept design to implementation design, with a focus on interior coordination and design implementation. She has also been a key partner to UCSF’s community & government relations teams, helping UCSF gain community support and Regents approval for the project in 2022. Previous experience includes project design on some of HdM’s best known healthcare and institutional projects, including the path-breaking New North Zealand Hospital in Denmark, the newly completed National Library of Israel and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art now in construction in Tennessee. Carly received her Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and her Master’s in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. A registered architect in California, she is a frequent guest juror and lecturer.