Part One: David Ottavio and Jerri Smith of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates lead the architectural design team for McCord Hall. While in Tempe for a site visit recently, we met to talk about the process of designing McCord Hall. KPF is an international firm that has designed a number of business schools around the country. They’ve been involved in the McCord Hall project from the beginning of the design phase, during which the location of the building shifted a couple times. Here’s David starting off, explaining how we ended up breaking ground just east of BAC.