Rene Alvarez, AIA

Senior Associate, Senior Planner/Designer

Rene Alvarez has worked in the planning and design field for nearly 20 years.  At C.T. Hsu + Associates, he provides master planning, feasibility studies, programming, building designs and project management for many of the firm’s signature projects including Boone High School, Mount Dora High School, Seminole State College’s Sanford/Lake Mary campus master plan, the Orange County Convention Center West Entrance and Valencia Community College's Public Safety Institute building and campus master plan.

Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Rene served as a senior designer with Architekturbüro Prof. Harald Deilmann in Münster, Germany where he worked in the urban design department on residential, commercial, and industrial projects.  He holds a Master of Science degree in urban design and a Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and is fluent in Spanish, German and Portuguese.