24 Kristina O'Neal Partner AvroKO In the summer after fifth grade, AvroKO partner Kristina O'Neal read an eclectic group of books, including Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking and Lewis Carroll's classic Through the Looking-Glass. "If you combine the thinking behind those two books, they make up a portion of the creative DNA at AvroKO today," she says. "[We] continue to be interested in designing hospitality spaces with a balance of psychology and fantasy." Raised in suburban California in the late 1970s and early '80s during a time when Bay Area culture thrived on pop-psychology, O'Neal spent much of her life attempting to merge those ideas of environmental psychology and conceptual Aster Hall, Chicago