With more than 14 years of experience, Sharif S. Kahatt has worked in a wide variety of commercial, academic and residential projects in Peru, Germany, USA, Spain, Japan and Egypt. He graduated as an architect from Universidad Ricardo Palma in 1997 and received the Rafael Marquina Award to the best thesis.  After 2 years working as part of the design team of Vella Architects, he started practicing as an independent architect and teaching at the School of Architecture at Ricardo Palma University. In 2000, after a working experience at NHM-Architekten in Hamburg, Germany, Sharif moved to Spain to obtain a master’s degree at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). Between 2001 and 2004, Sharif was part of the architecture team of SMITHGROUP in Washington DC working in the design of institutional and academic buildings. In 2004, he went back to Barcelona to start his PhD studies and work as project manager for a Shopping and Entertainment Center in Barcelona as part of SACRESA, a developer dedicated to housing and retail in Spain. In 2007 Sharif obtained a master degree in Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and collaborated with the firm Machado & Silvetti Associates as a project manager for Eastown and Westown, two urban projects in Cairo.

Sharif has taught and lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston Architectural College, Brown University, Columbia University, and Tecnológico de Monterrey, as well as Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Buell Colloquium, among others.  He also collaborates with publications on architecture and urban design for magazines in Peru, Spain and USA.

During the last 14 years, Marta Morelli has worked on different projects in Peru, USA and China. Her experience includes residential, academic and commercial buildings.  

At the beginning of her professional experience, after graduating from the School of Architecture at Ricardo Palma University, she worked for two years at Guillermo Malaga Architects developing projects in Lima and other Peruvian cities.  In 1999 she started her own professional practice with the design of the new headquarters for the Nueva Acropolis Cultural Institution in Lima. From 2002 to 2004, Marta was part of the design team of Leo A Daly Architects in Washington DC. In 2005, after getting summa cum laude at the Master Program of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB), she moved to Boston where she designed a beach house in Cape Cod while auditing classes at the Harvard Design School. From 2006 to 2009 she shared a position as a Senior Designer at Elkus Manfredi Architects in Boston with a Studio teaching position at the Boston Architectural College.

As an independent architect, Marta has designed and managed the construction of different types of projects.  She also has participated in design exhibitions, lectured and taught different courses in USA, Mexico and Peru.

In addition to managing K+M Arquitectura y Urbanimo, Marta also leads a Design Studio and teaches Theory of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru.