EVERALD COLAS, AIA, NOMA

FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL

Everald Colas is an award-winning Haitian American architect, educator, and storyteller with design experience in hospitality, aviation, multifamily, and institutional buildings. He has led a variety of internationally acclaimed projects during his time as a practitioner. As a designer, Everald specializes in projects that require a sensitive approach to integrating mixed-use buildings in a historical context. He is skilled in guiding clients through finding their project’s identity within numerous constraints, helping to ensure that complex projects are distilled to their design essence. He is motivated to find solutions for designing equitable spaces for the voiceless and believes that design is a tool for social change.

Everald is the owner of Storyn Studio for Architecture, a practice that uniquely balances its work at both the local scale and the international scale, providing meticulous research of the client’s ethos and project parameters to create unique spaces that tell a project’s sole story. Currently, Storyn is the design architect for Morimoto Wynwood Miami; Marriott Moxy of St. Petersburg, FL.; and corporate architect for Buya Restaurant brand in Europe.

Before creating Storyn, Everald was a senior architect for Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and co-led the mixed-use E126 Gotham Residential project in New York City.

Everald holds both a Master of Architecture degree and a Master of Science in Architectural Pedagogy from The University of Florida. He has been a guest critic at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Florida, Marywood University, the University of South Florida, and the University of Cincinnati. In 2018, he co-founded and organized the annual University of Florida School of Architecture COMING HOME Alumni Lecture Series.

Everald is a board director for Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts, The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, and an advisory council member for the University of Florida School of Architecture.