Studio O+A is pleased to announce the promotions of Grace Eun to Design Director + Principal and Maryam Batouli to Senior Designer.
Grace Eun, ASID, LEED AP – Design Director + Principal
With more than 20 years of experience and five years at O+A, Grace has been instrumental in shaping the firm’s creative direction. Known for her ability to balance complex stakeholder needs with bold, practical design solutions, she has delivered high-profile projects across workplace, institutional, mixed-use, and hospitality worldwide. Prior to O+A, Grace served as a Senior Associate at Clive Wilkinson Architects in Culver City, CA, and before that at NBBJ in Seattle, WA, where she led large multidisciplinary teams and complex international interior projects.
Her diverse portfolio at O+A includes global offices for Google, the adidas NAM Brand Center, and expansive international workplaces for Hyundai Motor Group and Allstate clients. Projects range from agile 3,000-square-foot spaces to multi-hundred-thousand-square-foot campuses across the U.S., India, Japan, and South Korea.
Grace’s leadership and design excellence have been widely recognized. She is a 2019 “One to Watch” Award winner by ASID, a 2018 “Hot List” Honoree by Metropolis Magazine, and a 2015 “Most Influential Interior Designers in the World” Honoree by Monthly Chosun. Earlier in her career, she received the International Interior Design Association’s “Emerging Professional Award”, setting the stage for two decades of achievement.
In addition to her project leadership, Grace serves as an adjunct professor and mentor and is passionate about guiding the next generation of designers. She also volunteers for organizations such as CIDA and ASID. She brings clarity, empathy, and decisiveness to her role, earning a reputation as the go-to problem solver for even the most complex challenges.
Grace holds an M.A. in Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.F.A. in Interior and Environmental Design from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. As Principal, she will continue to strengthen O+A’s global impact and drive the firm’s mission to create spaces that inspire creativity, wellness, and community.
Maryam Batouli – Senior Designer
With nine years of design experience, Maryam has cultivated a wide-ranging portfolio that spans workplace, education, healthcare, mixed-use developments, multifamily residential, lobbies, amenities, and airports.
Before joining O+A in 2024, she held roles with HGA, IA Interior Architects, SCB, and HOK, where she developed strong skills in client coordination, design execution, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Since arriving at O+A, she has contributed to transformative workplace strategy and design projects for global clients, blending functional clarity with biophilic integration and cohesive design language.
Her work has been honored with some of the industry’s most prestigious awards, including the IIDA Honor Awards, IIDA Calibre Design Awards, and AIA Awards, recognizing her ability to craft environments that elevate user experience and innovation.
Maryam’s project contributions include Phantom.app headquarters in San Francisco, 555 Clay Street, Baywood TI, Allstate Connection Pod in Dallas-Fort Worth, Confidential corporate headquarters in Osaka, Japan, as well as large-scale campuses for Hyundai Motor Group, spanning the U.S. and India.
Her academic background—holding a B.F.A. in Interior Design and an A.S. in General Biology—uniquely informs her design approach, inspiring her passion for biophilic elements and human-centered spaces. Outside the studio, Maryam draws creative inspiration from travel, cultural exploration, and family life.
About Studio O+A
Studio O+A is an award-winning San Francisco-based interiors firm with over 30 years of experience in workplace design. Our creative office solutions for companies such as Google, Meta, McDonald’s, adidas, Slack, Hyundai Motor Group and many others have established the firm as one of the country’s leading design innovators.
O+A began as a two-person space planning company in Silicon Valley in 1991. It quickly grew into a nimble interpreter of a new corporate aesthetic that saw design as a vehicle for stimulating creativity and productivity in the office. Today, O+A is recognized around the world as a leader in this field. Combining large-scale, multi-floor interiors with experimental popups and pro bono projects, O+A continues to explore new paths and make new discoveries in the relationship between space and behavior.