Amanda DICARLO
Amanda DiCarlo is an interior architect and senior design leader with more than 32 years of experience shaping complex environments across corporate, educational, cultural, and workplace sectors. She currently serves as Interiors Lead at Robertson Loia Roof, PC in Atlanta, where she directs interior design strategy, oversees a team of designers, and leads interior discussions across multidisciplinary project teams. Her work focuses on defining the full interior experience within buildings—ranging from performance art centers and K–12 schools to higher education campuses and corporate offices—while guiding design direction in collaborative, often male-dominated meeting environments.
She began her career in Atlanta before spending a formative decade in Los Angeles, where exposure to high-end residential interiors sparked her interest in design. Early internships in commercial architecture shifted her path toward large-scale public and workplace environments, leading her into roles at firms including Smallwood, Business Environments LLC, and Facilitec, Inc.. She later advanced into leadership positions, including Workplace Intelligence Designer and Interior Architect at Avison Young, where she led corporate office design initiatives across the United States and Canada. One of her defining achievements includes developing workplace environments that integrated biophilic design, flexible seating strategies, and modern, agile planning models aligned with evolving corporate culture.
Her academic path includes interior design studies at the Design Center at Santa Monica and additional technical training at Southern Polytechnic State University, supplemented by extensive hands-on experience gained through early professional entry via internship. She is currently pursuing NCIDQ certification through the Council for Interior Design Qualification while continuing to expand her leadership within the field. Beyond her professional practice, she is also engaged in community service and creative work, including long-term volunteer involvement with Atlanta-area initiatives and a personal passion for welding and designing custom furniture, reflecting a career grounded in both technical expertise and hands-on craftsmanship.
• Southern Polytechnic State University
Computer Science- AutoCad
• The Design Center at Santa Monica
Interior Design
• Atlanta Commercial Realtors Group (past membership)
• Girl Scout Troop Leader for 17 years with Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta
• Serving as Gold Award mentor
• Career day speaker at elementary
• Middle
• And high schools to inspire students about interior design and architecture careers
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to my mentor Diane Ruff, who was my mentor when I was at Wakefield Beasley & Associates, an architectural firm in Atlanta. She is the one that inspired me to bring me to where I am today. She worked at an architectural firm where I worked, which was mostly male-dominated with very few women, and she was just so strong. She could handle all the men because we walk into meetings with contractors and owners of buildings, and they're typically all men, and she just fit right in. I was so impressed with how she handled the presentations and won the work for the firm. She was super stylish, still is, and she's a very strong woman who inspired me in many ways. I also learned through experience, working my way up. I only went to 2 years of college because my first internship hired me right away. When I've interviewed for different firms, they've always said they require 4 years of experience, but with my background and designs, they look past that. I've been able to learn many things and grow without having that degree.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say to definitely learn specific software programs that we use in today's age, which is called Revit, to help draw the designs. And to think outside the box and put together presentations that will wow people in order for the client to want to hire them back. Just be strong, be who you are, and take all your inspirations out of life and put them into your designs.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Mentoring is incredibly important to me, both professionally and personally. I oversee two designers currently in my role, one male and one female, and I mentor them. They're learning so much from me, and I really enjoy mentoring. I also go to a lot of elementary, middle, and high schools on career days, and I try to inspire the students to want to become interior designers and interior architects. I show them different presentations of different buildings and projects I've worked on, and bring all the samples for them to touch and feel. Every single time, everyone just asks lots of questions, and they leave super happy, and they say that that's what they want to do in life as their career, and it makes me feel so good. I'm also a Girl Scout troop leader, and I've had troops for the last 17 years. I mentor those girls, and they're currently, both troops are working on their Gold Award, which is the highest award a Girl Scout can achieve. Less than 4% of girls earn their award nationally. I have two daughters in Girl Scouts. One completed her Gold Award in August, and the other one is working on hers now.
Locations
Robertson Loia Roof, PC
4710 dudley lane, Atlanta, GA 30327