A highly collaborative team with award-winning multidisciplinary expertise.
Over the last 35 years, we have built a highly collaborative team with award-winning multidisciplinary expertise: urban design, architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. By providing the highest level of client service, creativity, and a think-global, act-local mindset, we help our clients and partners take their projects to the next level. Whether it is city and regional planning; new public works infrastructure; a transit or transportation project; a civic, institutional, or recreational project; or a mixed-use, residential, commercial, or industrial facility, we apply a clear vision, positive energy, and a client-centric focus to every project we touch.
In 1981 Otak’s founders set out to create the region’s premier multidisciplinary architecture and urban design firm.
Otak’s name comes from the initials of its three founders: Nawzad Othman, Ralph Tahran, and Greg Kurahashi. Otak quickly grew into a firm with a presence around the entire western United States and the Middle East, with a strong reputation for excellence in smart growth planning, sustainable design and development, and innovative transportation solutions. Creativity, integrity, and skill have guided Otak’s efforts as an award-winning architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and construction project management firm.
In 2011, Korean firm Hanmi Global acquired a majority share of Otak. Since Hanmi Global’s involvement, profitable growth, through both organic growth and acquisition, has been a focus. In 2017 DAY CPM joined Otak and expanded our services to include comprehensive project management and owner’s representative offerings. In the same year Loris and Associates strengthened our design capabilities in Colorado. In early 2019 we added an architecture firm, V3 Studios, to bolster our capability in hospitality, mixed-use, and residential high-rise design. Growing rapidly, today we are operating out of eight offices in three states.
