Jon Drezner was raised in Princeton, New Jersey and attended Princeton Day School. He received a Bachelor of Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1981 and continued his education at Southern California Institute of Architecture where he earned a Masters of Architecture in January of 1990. Jon began his professional career in 1989 with the firm Frank O. Gehry & Associates, Inc. in Santa Monica, California. For the next eight years he worked as Project Designer and Project Architect on a number of high profile projects including the 10,000 square foot Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, the renovation of the 250-seat Merrifield Lecture Hall, a library, and a 850 car parking structure at Los Angelesí Loyola law School; and the widely published re-design of Frank Gehryís own residence. In the role of visiting Instructor, Jon Drezner has participated in a number of architectural workshops at Canadaís University of Montreal and University of Waterloo. In 1997, Drezner established DREZNER GROUP, INC and began applying his talents to the design of various building types. A number of ice rink / sports arena proposals for ICE SPECIALTY ENTERTAINMENT, INC and the design of identity signs for hockey rinks in Texas and California led to a commission to design the 156,000 square foot Los Angeles KINGS / LAKERS TRAINING CENTER recently completed. His retail experience includes the 2,500 square foot DARYL K clothing store in West Hollywood completed in the summer of 1999. Drezner has earned an impressive reputation in residential design through an impressive number of completed remodels and additions throughout the United States, as well as a 4,000 square foot new residence in Quebec, Canada.