Michael Craig Smith

Michael Craig Smith, AIA, will serve as director of Hastings+Chivetta Architects’ new California office in Irvine, bringing with him 25 years of design and construction experience at California universities. Smith comes to Hastings+Chivetta from California State University at Fullerton where he completed more than 20 major capital projects worth a combined $500 million as the director of Design and Construction. Smith also created design standards for the Fullerton campus, as well as the university’s LEED baseline. The largest project during his tenure – the $142.6 million Student Housing III project – earned LEED Platinum in 2011. Smith earned both a Bachelor of Science in environmental design and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of California-Berkley.