A state of mind.
Shared by a culturally diverse team
based in Salem, working internationally.
We believe architecture is a cultural act before it is a technical one. The buildings we make carry many voices: clients, builders, neighbors, and the people who will inhabit them. Our role is to honor those voices in materials, form, and space, and to leave each place better than we found it. Design, for us, is how we build belonging.
The team behind Flow comes from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Kenya, Ukraine and Salem. Different languages, different references, different ways of seeing a wall, a window, a street. What we share is the conviction that buildings are better when more voices shape them.
The names below are the people who hold this state of mind in the work, every day.
Darguin Fortuna
Co-Founder, Principal & Senior Project Architect. AIA, NCARB, NOMA
Marcos Severino
Founding Principal. Assoc. AIA
Nicolle Villa
Director of Interior Design
Whandy Martinez
Senior Designer. Assoc. AIA
Timeus Mulinge
Senior Designer. Assoc. AIA, NOMA
Natalie Villar
Branch Manager – DR
Rai Ramirez-Barbosa
Interior Designer. Assoc. AIA
Yirkelys Santana
Interior Designer. Assoc. AIA
Juliana Pinceli
Designer. Assoc. AIA
Alexa Valentine
Interior Designer
Stephany Queiroz
Designer. Assoc. AIA
Gean Rodriguez
Designer. Assoc. AIA
Patrick Grant
Field Surveying Lead
Peter Souhleris
Consultant
Jefry Castillo
Designer
Edwin De La Cruz Torres
Director of Media
Christian Nielsen
Architect – Specifications Consultant
Dave Towle
Cost Estimating Consultant
Architecture, for us, doesn't end at the drawing board.
We teach, we publish, we show up for the next generation of architects — especially those who don't see themselves in the profession yet.
The work below isn't separate from Flow; it's part of how we understand the practice. A studio is also what it gives back to the field that holds it.
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Our principals are educators. Darguin teaches at the Boston Architectural College, where he once studied. Marcos has worked with YouthBuild Boston's Designery, introducing high school students to architecture. We believe the profession changes when more people get to enter it — and that change starts in the classroom, not the boardroom.
Teaching
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Darguin's YouTube channel reaches over 20,000 architects, students, and people curious about design and the craft behind it. He speaks at schools, podcasts, and industry events about practice, equity, and what it takes to run a small firm with conviction. The work travels further when the lessons travel with it.
Speaking
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In 2026, Darguin chairs the AIA Small Firm Exchange, advocating nationally for the small practices that make up most of the profession. His film The Change We Seek won the AIA People's Choice Award in 2022. Flow is 100% MBE-owned and operated — and proud to say it.