Steven Arthur O’Leary, Architect, and AIA member, former husband of Michele Grace Hottel, AIA, father to Kelley, John and Griffin O’Leary, was at home with his family when he passed away peacefully on June 30, 2023.
Steve graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 1989, became licensed in 1993 and worked at architecture firms in Southern California including Appleton & Associates (Appleton, Mechur & Associates), Lomax Rock Architects, Levin & Associates, HMC, MW Steele Architects and NAV/FAC SW. He was the designer of many AIA Design Award-winning projects.
While he was a student, he was on the Michael Folonis, FAIA, and Welton Beckett, FAIA, design team as a finalist for the West Hollywood Civic Center competition.
He was a docent at the Frank Lloyd Wright Barnsdall House and with another architect recreated the design of the living room furniture from photographs and built the model that would be used for the fundraising campaign that was used to rebuild the furniture for the renovation.
He was a past instructor at the UCLA extension and Mesa College and a thesis advisor at Newschool San Diego.
He will be missed not only for his great talent as an architect but for his sense of humor and engaging personality.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 29th at 1pm at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, San Diego, California with a reception to follow.
Thang Do, FAIA, 62, has passed away. He was a devoted family member, mentor, and friend. He made the profession of architecture an ever-increasing service to society and will be dearly missed.
Warren Hedgpeth, AIA leader in the design of multifamily housing passed away on April 29. A prominent leader in Sonoma County, Hedgpeth’s community service includes the 20 years he served as a member of Santa Rosa’s Design Review Board and service to the AIA at the local and state levels.
On January 27, the architecture world lost Kinya M. Matsuno.
Architect and athlete Dan Dworsky, died January 19, 2022 at the age of 94. 
When AIA California heard the news about the death of Ralph Vitiello, staff was silenced with immediate grief.
