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3 Benefits 4 About AWA+D 9 Programming 12 Sponsorship Opportunities 19 Symposium

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▷ Members Discounts and Exclusive Event Offerings: ▷ Educational Presentations ▷ Conferences ▷ Symposiums & Panel Discussions ▷ Architectural Tours ▷ Services Information ▷ Bi-Monthly E-Bulletin with member only information and announcements ▷ Discounted Classes at UCLA Extension for Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design ▷ Networking, Referrals & Job Posting Opportunities ▷ Mentoring and Mutual Support ▷ Students and emerging or returning professionals can gain valuable skills and experience by volunteering for our board or committees; manage projects or manage people, create presentations, organize events, or hone your public speaking and gain exposure to the architecture and design community ▷ ARE and LARE Study Groups ▷ AWA+D Salon: a Monthly Member Gathering of Lively Topical Discussions ▷ Opportunity to list your business in the AWA+D “Find a Professional” Directory

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ About OUR MISSION To advance and support Women in the allied fields of architecture and design. We encourage and foster high levels of achievement by providing ▷ Educational programming ▷ Mentoring ▷ Illuminating career opportunities for professional and students in these fields

The Association for Women in Architecture and Design is a Professional Society dedicated to supporting career and educational endeavors for women in these fields for almost one hundred years.

ABOUT AWA+D History

From Four Women to a PAST PRESIDENTS 2015–16 Kishani De Silva National Movement 2014–15 Anna Harris The Association has a rich history 2013–14 Nicole Davis Tinkham dating back to 1915. The Founders 2011–13 Pamela Leone 2010–11 Alissa Kauffman were four female architectural 2009–10 April Sakai students at Universi- 2008–09 Pamela Domingo ty in St. Louis: Mae Steinmesch, at that time, it was apparent that women in similar 2007–08Mehrnoosh Mojallali Helen Milius, Angela Burdeau and 2006–07Kara Newmark fields were experiencing the same professional chal- 2005–06Kate Svoboda-Spanbock Jane Pelton. After being denied lenges, thus they expanded the name to additionally 2004–05Kate Svoboda-Spanbock entry into the men’s architectural represent landscape , interior designers, 2003–04 Gina Najm fraternity, these pioneering and engineers. 2002–03 Rochelle Mills The “Her- organized their own society, called 2001–02 Nina Briggs By 1950 there were nearly twenty student and profes- 2000–01 Stephanie Reich story” of the La Confrerie Alongine. Upon 1999–00 Isabelle Duvivier discovering interest from female sional chapters across the country. The pressures of Association maintaining a national Association, including funding 1998–99 Diane Lee for Women in architectural students at other 1997–98 Mary Werk campuses, in 1922 a national stu- annual conventions and publishing a newsletter the 1996–97 Barbara Elwood Architecture Keystone, precipitated a re-organization in 1964 and 1995–96 Ethel Rubio dent association was formed that 1994–95 Seraphima Lamb they called, Alpha Alpha Gamma. thus the national organization dissolved. Professional and student chapters continued in cities and univer- 1993–94 Anne Zimmerman Mae Steinmesch recounted the 1992–93 Joanne Jackson forming of the organization, “In sities across the nation. 1991–92 Lian Hurst Mann 1915 there were four in the 1990–91 Candida Burke League The Los Angeles Area Association 1989–90 Jan Muntz School of Architecture at Washing- The Association for Women in Architecture – Los 1988–89 Alicia Rosenthal ton University. Apprised of the fact 1987–88 Virginia Tanzmann Angeles (AWA-LA) was one of the largest and contin- there were other women enrolled 1986–87 Katherine Diamond ues to be the only surviving original chapter of AWA. 1985–86 Katherine Diamond at other Universities in the same In 1975 we wanted to better reflect the broadening of 1984–85 Margaret R. Goglia field, we organized…”. our membership to include anyone interested in sup- 1983–84 Catherine Cunningham 1982–83 Vickie Carter Between the years of 1924-1948 as porting women in the professions, including men, so 1981–82 Koje Shoraka female students graduated, they “for Women” was introduced to replace the original 1980–81 Koje Shoraka formed professional chapters to “of Women” in our name. Our organization’s legacy 1979–80 Doris Power provide support for the challeng- has had a significant national impact as its mem- 1978–79 Elsa Leviseur 1977–78 Robin Jaffe es they faced as women entering bership has always included incredibly renowned 1976–77 Nada Borsa the workforce. The professional practitioners and leaders. Among our notable “firsts” 1975–76 Virginia Tanzmann society flourished and in 1948 at is Norma Sklarek, credited with being the first Af- 1974–75 Bett Marriott their National Conference in San rican-American to receive her architectural 1973–74 Tanya Desmari 1972–73 Dorothy Gray Harrison Francisco, they voted to rename license in New York and the first woman in our coun- 1971–72 Peggy Cochrane the professional chapters “The try to be elected a Fellow in the American Institute of 1970–71 Peggy Cochrane Association of Women in Architec- Architects (FAIA). In 1985 Ms. Sklarek joined the Mar- 1969–70 Lorraine Rudoff ture and Allied Arts (AWA).” Even got Siegel AIA Architecture firm, established by our 1968–69 Lorraine Rudoff

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ About PAST PRESIDENTS (continued) 1967–68 Marjorie (Mikki) Killen 1966–67 Dorothy Gray Harrison 1965–66 Dorothy Gray Harrison 1964–65 Anne Warren Knowles 1963–64 Anne Warren Knowles 1962–63 Barbara Elwood 1961–62 Lillian Herman member, Margot Siegel, in 1971. Along with fellow need for and benefit of greater col- 1960–61 Barbara Elwood 1959–60 Betty Gardner AWA-LA member, Kate Diamond, the union of these laboration and exchange. In 2012, 1958–59 Edith Shoor three members created the largest woman-owned to emphasize our commitment to 1957–58 Laura Tedesco and operated firm of its time in the western United furthering the cross-pollination 1956–57 Elizabeth Boyter States: Siegel, Sklarek, & Diamond. Each of these of a range of design disciplines 1955–56 Jean Driskel 1954–55 Edith Shoor women are a great inspiration to young women en- and to refocus and refresh the 1953–54 Olive Chadeayne tering the profession. Sadly, Norma Sklarek passed organization’s programming goals, 1952–53 Lucille Bryant Raport away February 6, 2012. AWA-LA formally became known 1951–52 Olive Chadeayne as the Association for Women in AWA+D Today Architecture + Design (AWA+D). Distinct in its equal inclusion of professionals from We offer innovative programming across the architectural and design fields our pro- not found elsewhere, as well as fessional membership currently includes: Architects, the time and space for women Interior Designers, Graphic & Product Designers, Ur- to contribute more to the design ban Planners, Environmental Designers, Landscape profession while becoming more Architects & Designers, Building Engineers, Contrac- successful individuals. tors and students enrolled in these fields. We rec- ognize the tremendous advances and rapid changes impacting all design disciplines and we embrace the

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OFFICERS

President Vice President Parliamentarian CFO Secretary

DIRECTORS

Programs Systems Mentorship Communications Development Membership

CHAIRS Education Community Programs Systems Mentorship Social Media Outreach Membership

Salon Licensure Blog Editor 50/50

Symposium Graphic Designer Advocacy

Tours Newsletter Editor

WikiD/Archivist

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Yearly membership is over 200 consisting of approximately:

Diverse Fields Leaders Over one third of the membership are Principals, Business Owners, Partners and Senior Leadership 15% Landscape Architecture Professionals

15% Others including 45% Architecture Professionals engineers, urban planners, educators, artists, sustainability consultants, product representatives

25% Interior Design Professionals

Location 95% of Members are located in LA County In diverse communities ranging from the Valleys to South Bay, Santa Monica to Pasadena

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ About PROGRAMMING Events (2013-2018)

Community Engagement Advocacy Committee (monthly) Womens March Volunteer Days (series) dwell (annual) Salon (monthly) Educational ADA and the Law Webinar BIM: An honest conversation Building Seagram Cocktails + Cocktails + Leadership Cocktails + Cash Cocktails + CEUs: Health, Safety + Wellness Cocktails + Codes Cocktails + Construction BIM Meetings Cocktails + Copyrights Annual Meeting Cocktails + Credentials CEU: WELL Board Meeting (monthly) Code Update Seminar Symposoium (annual) See pgs XX-XX Conversation with Clarke Knight Mentoring Cultural Frameworks in Indigenous Lunch Mentoring Architecture Mentoring Event: Family and Design – Can Femmes Fatales Pecha Kucha Night We Have it All? (with LA Forum) (annual) Mentorship Event: Mid-Career Salon Deux Conversations Women of Design: Breakfast with Inspiration Mentorship Forum (series) (with WiA, SoCalNOMA, AAA/e) Speed Talks Mentorship Matchmaking Event (series) Speed Talks: Ripple Effects Round Table Mentoring (with WiA) Speed Mentoring Stand Out From the Crowd Portfolio Review

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ About Tours Abramson Teiger Architects, Office + Project Tour Ace Hotel Theater Architecture of Cuba + Office Tour, MGS Architecture Columbia Square Elevon Campus Emerson College Gable House Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Mixers Safdie ARE(2) / LARE Launch Party Gulmac LA Office AWA+D Leadership Mixer Natural History Museum - North Campus Cocktail + Fundraiser for Nina Briggs’ Santa Barbara: City’s Public Market, County Documentary “Practitioners” Courthouse, the historic Mission, Cocktails + Headshots El Encanto + unique newer projects Workshops Dekton Wine + Cheese Event Sheats-Goldstein Residence Architectural Photography Legacy Event Studio Argente Coffee + Concrete Holiday Mixer (with WiA, ASID Pasadena, and SWA Group Studio NAWICLA) Face Your Fears: Harnessing THE REEF Your Inner Public Speaker Member Mixers Wilshire Boulevard Temple Triple Mixer: A Night of Speed Talks Face Your Fears 2: Proposal Writing Workshop (with WiA, SoCalNOMA) Study Groups Spring Member Mixer ARE Weekly Study Group – Overlap Study: Herstories (series) 95th Anniversary Summer Soiree Structural Urban Draw (series) LARE Study Group Understanding the WELL Building Standard – Full Day Workshop #wikiD (series) #wikiD with Guest Speaker Julia Donoho, AIA, Esq Writing for Visual Thinkers

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ About SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities Benefits: premium sponsorship package, which includes: ▷ Listing on AWA+D Website for fiscal year ▷ Recognition in all printed materials and in the AWA+D Newsletter, feature on AWA+D social network postings ▷ Full paid membership for five persons ▷ $75 professional membership (vs $95 original price) for all the new members ▷ Free admission for all AWA+D events for five persons ▷ Complimentary job posting for 6 months ▷ Special mention (via signage) at all sponsored events ▷ Optional company-supplied promotional materials for display at all sponsored events

DIAMOND Donation amount per year: $5,000

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities Benefits includes ▷ Full paid membership for two persons ▷ Full paid admission for five tickets to the Annual Conference ▷ Special mention (via signage) at all sponsored events and AWA+D social network postings ▷ Listing on AWA+D Website for fiscal year ▷ Optional company-supplied promotional materials for display at all sponsored events ▷ $75 Professional membership (vs $95 original price) for up to 20 new members ▷ Complimentary job posting for 3 months

PLATINUM Donation amount per year: $3,000

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities ▷ Benefits: Recognition in all printed materials ▷ Full paid membership for one person ▷ Full paid admission for two tickets to the Annual Conference ▷ Special mention at all sponsored events ▷ $75 Professional membership (vs. $95 original price) for up to 15 new members ▷ Listing on AWA+D Website for fiscal year (size appropriate) ▷ Optional company-supplied promotional materials for display at all sponsored events

GOLD Donation amount per year: $1,500

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities ▷ Benefits* ▷ Recognition in all printed and electronic materials relating to the event ▷ Full paid admission for six tickets ▷ Special mention at the sponsored event ▷ Optional company-supplied promotional materials for display at all sponsored events

EVENT SPONSOR Donation amount per event of: $1,200

* Benefits for the annual symposium are slightly different

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities ▷ Benefits ▷ Recognition in all printed and electronic materials relating to the event ▷ Full paid admission for three tickets ▷ Special mention at the sponsored event ▷ Optional company-supplied promotional materials for display at all sponsored events

Donation amount CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR per event of: $500

* Benefits for the annual symposium are slightly different

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities ▷ Benefits ▷ Recognition in all printed and electronic materials relating to the event ▷ Full paid admission for two tickets ▷ Special mention at the sponsored event ▷ Optional company-supplied promotional materials for display at all sponsored events*

Donation amount CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR per event of: $250

* Benefits for the annual symposium are slightly different

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Sponsorship Opportunities SYMPOSIUM

awaplusd.org ▷ p 310.534.8466 ▷ Symposium Career by Design: Choose Your Adventure

2019 AWA+D SYMPOSIUM & AWAF SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Contemporary architects and designers have unprecedented choice regarding how to practice. While such an open field allows for more personal freedom, finding an SATURDAY inspiring career model—or creating your own—can be challenging. This year’s AWA+D TH SYMPOSIUM aims to showcase different paths to professional practice, as well as MAY 18 , 2019 highlight some of the considerations involved in shaping a career that feels both authentic and fulfilling. One panel discussion will address what it is like to practice in small, medium, and large architecture firms, and to sometimes find yourself jumping between them. Another will focus on design-oriented practitioners navigating alternative career paths. Following the panels, breakout sessions led by the panelists 960 E 3RD ST and other industry representatives will continue the conversation on a more intimate LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 level.

PANEL DESCRIPTIONS

S/M/L: Different Scales of Architectural Practice Navigating “the Swerve” in Design Practice At a time when “being an ” has a more In her autobiography Becoming, Michelle Obama diverse definition than ever, it is no surprise that describes transforming herself from a lifelong “box- one size does not fit all. The scale of practice in checker” into a “swerver,” someone who gave herself which we choose to work has tremendous impact permission to take risks and shift her professional on our exposure to different kinds of projects, trajectory away from one based on abstract notions responsibilities, learning processes, and firm of achievement in favor of more personal satisfaction. cultures. In our first panel, women leading Many of us in the architecture and design industries architecture firms of varied sizes will compare and have also found success and fulfillment in deviating from contrast their different paths and perspectives. traditional practice. In our second panel, we will hear from a few of these “swervers” about what it takes to forge a unique career path, and what they learned along the way.

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Hsinming Lise Audrey Fung, FAIA KEYNOTE SPEAKER Bornstein, AIA Sato Partner and Design MODERATOR MODERATOR Director Partner, Killefer Principal Architect Mithun | Hodgetts + Fung Flammang Architects Sato Architects, Inc.

Hsinming Fung’s design practice is energized by As a partner at KFA, Lise is in charge of project Audrey is the principal architect at Sato Architects, her lifelong commitment to the arts and education. concept and design; incorporating a love of art Inc. and host of the XX|LA Architects Podcast. As Partner and Design Director of the newly and community while developing client goals Audrey founded Sato Architects, Inc in 2010, and merged Mithun | Hodgetts + Fung, Hsinming brings and vision. Focused on creating projects with a she specializes in residential projects ranging purpose, creativity and high production standards big design idea, Lise has managed projects with from single-family remodels to small multi-family to an architectural practice widely admired for complex entitlement packages, multiple funding housing developments. Additionally, Audrey has innovation and experimentation. Among her recent sources and significant community outreach while experience working with notable historic buildings, projects are a new performing arts center at working collaboratively with clients, consultants, and has inspected over 100 properties on behalf of CalArts and the design of the Chapel of the North contractors and in- house teams. the Mills Act program for the City of Los Angeles. American Martyrs in Sacramento. In addition, Ming For Lise, the ever-evolving LA cityscape is Audrey’s love of architecture has increasingly led was the recipient of the Prize Fellowship reimagining itself yet again amidst a new era of her toward roles in which she can impact the future in Design and was appointed by President Clinton transformation in communities and the way people of the profession. She has served as a lecturer in as Council Member of the National Endowment live and work. She believes this growth will lead the Architecture Department at Cal Poly Pomona of the Arts. In 2016 she was elected to Fellow by KFA to new and exciting projects with creative for five years, and advocates for a more equitable the AIA, and has served as President of the AIA/ partners, while offering new opportunities in urban profession through her work as Vice-President Los Angeles and President of the Association of infill development. She serves on the board for Step of the Association for Women in Architecture Collegiate Schools of Architecture. As a leading Up on Second and the board for the Association for and Design (AWA+D). Her show, the XX|LA figure in architectural education, she has lectured Women in Architecture Foundation. Architects Podcast, features honest and in-depth internationally, and has held twice the Eero conversations with leading women in architecture, Saarinen Chair at Yale University and the Herbert to present a well-rounded view of leadership Baumer Distinguished Professorship at Ohio State in and around our field. Besides architecture, University. Currently, Fung teaches at SCI-Arc and Audrey’s interests include surfing, sogetsu ikebana, serves as Director of International Programs. Past gardening, and her dog, Charlie Brown. positions at SCI-Arc include Director of Academic Affairs and Director of Graduate Programs.

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Anne

Fletcher, AIA, Emmanuelle LEED AP Monika Managing Principal, Bourlier Board Member, and Haefelfinger, SIA Co-Founder, CEO Management Board President Panelite HOK, Los Angeles XTEN Architecture

Emmanuelle Bourlier is the co-founder and CEO of Anne Fletcher leads HOK Los Angeles as Managing Born in Basel, Switzerland, Monika Haefelfinger’s Panelite. Having pioneered first translucent composite Principal, where she is responsible for the interest in art and design deepened during an in 1998, Emmanuelle’s focus is on material innovation, strategic direction and overall performance of the apprenticeship with her father’s architecture specifically on the energy-saving, net-zero potential multidisciplinary practice and sits on the board of firm in Sissach, Switzerland. Shortly after, she of honeycomb technology through daylighting, solar directors of the 1700+ person firm. An architect moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of shading and greenhouse gas reduction. Panelite with over two decades of project management and Southern California, and graduated with a Bachelor works with leading firms including OMA, Herzog & design experience, she has led teams for many of Architecture Degree and Robert Allen Rogaff de Meuron, Gensler, HOK, and Diller Scofidio Renfro, significant projects including dozens of mixed-use, Award in 1992; two years later, she completed her for clients such as JetBlue, Google, Garmin, and Audi. hospitality, residential and transportation projects. Master of Science Degree in Advanced Architectural Applications include corporate offices, hospitals, Before relocating to Los Angeles in late 2017, she Design from Columbia University. Following her schools, transit hubs and universities. ran the HOK New York mixed- use practice and led studies, she worked for Basel architectural office Prior to founding Panelite, Emmanuelle was a The New LaGuardia Airport Masterplan, guiding the Herzog and de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, designer at Groves & Co in New York and Christian complex design and implementation of over $9.5 and played a key role in the building several Biecher Architectes in Paris. She holds a B.A. in billion of simultaneous redevelopment. award-winning buildings including the Institute for Architecture from UC Berkeley, an M. Arch from Hospital Pharmaceuticals Rossettiareal in Basel, Columbia University and a Certificate in General Switzerland. Monika returned to the US to work Management from UCLA’s Anderson School of for DMJM/ Keating on notable high-rise building Business (Executive Program). Emmanuelle is projects in Asia before establishing her own design a creative, driven and collaborative leader who seeks opportunities for growth and positive impact. studio. In 2000, XTEN Architecture was born in She has worked in Europe and the United States, partnership with her partner and late husband demonstrating a forthright approach to leadership and Austin Kelly. Monika Haefelfinger currently lives in an ability to balance visionary thinking with business Los Angeles where she leads the firm with XTEN fundamentals. She lives and skateboards in Los Principal, Scott Utterstrom. Angeles with her 9 year old son Nicolas.

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Leslie Patricia Terri J Sydnor, AIA Rhee, FAIA Director Moore Partner Cumming Corporation Principal Ehrlich Rhee Yanai Director moore+friesl Chaney at AIA|LA

Terri Moore is a Principal at moore+friesl, a design Patricia Rhee, FAIA, is a Partner at Ehrlich Yanai Leslie is a Director at Cumming Corporation and is and fabrication consultancy based in Los Angeles. Rhee Chaney Architects, and has been practicing currently a program project manager at Long Beach The firm specializes in projects with complex architecture for 20 years. Patricia received her Unified School District. She has been interested material and fabrication requirements at all scales. Master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard’s in making better places for the underserved since To produce their projects, the firm works closely Graduate School of Design and received her beginning her career in architecture in the late 80s. with a network of fabricators in the USA, Canada, Bachelor’s degree from the University of After graduating from Yale with a B.A. in Architecture, and Europe who specialize in a wide variety of Pennsylvania. Patricia was elevated to the AIA College her first job was designing housing for homeless materials. Their work has been featured in various of Fellows in 2019, one of 21 women of nationally. She families for the City of New York Department of recently completed USC’s Ross Minority Program Housing Preservation and Development. After publications, including Contract Magazine, Interior in Real Estate. She is currently on the Board of the receiving her M.Arch from UCLA, Leslie has spent Design Magazine, and Surface & Panel. Culver City Chamber of Commerce as well as the most of her career involved in the design and Terri Moore co-founded moore+friesl with her Economic Development Committee and recipient construction of public schools. As a product of a New husband Marcus Friesl. Terri Moore holds a of the 2017 Culver City Council York City public school education she is very invested Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc and is Visionary Award. Patricia was also a Founding Co- in the improvement of learning environments that a licensed architect in California. Terri’s prior Chair of the AIA Los Angeles Women in Architecture can serve disadvantaged and impacted communities. experience includes high-profile healthcare, civic committee. She was recently a panelist for In 2013 after over 20 years practicing architecture and institutional projects. “Groundbreaking Women in Construction” with the in both small and large architecture firms Leslie National Association of Women in Construction. In left traditional practice to work on the owner’s side, 2015, her firm received the 2015 National AIA Firm working for community colleges and urban school Award, one of the industry’s highest honors. Her districts. project experience ranges from civic to institutional Study after study proves that diversity improves and commercial developments of all scales and the bottom line. Leslie believes that viability and multiple delivery methods including design- build. mentorship are keys to the diversification and Patricia believes that architecture should facilitate future strength of the architecture profession. She community gathering, bringing people together in currently serves as a mentor to several developing daylit spaces, encouraging dialog and exchange. professionals and is a director on the board of AIA LA.

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1329 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033

AWA+D’s 2018 symposium event INTERSECTIONALITY aims to catalyze the potentials of intersectional within the Los Angeles design community. The curated panel discussion will strive to identify intersectional methodologies for professional and creative work, set new ambitions for collaborative models of practice, and advance the implications of inclusion in our field.

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LORI BROWN Co-founder Archite XX, Professor of Architecture Syracuse University

Lori Brown’s creative practice ex- inist Practices: Interdisciplinary Ap- ture with Dr. Karen Burns She is the co-founder and leads amines the relationships between proaches to Women in Architecture. ArchiteXX, a New York City based women and architecture architecture and social justice. She Her two current book projects include group working to bridge the academy and practice. She is the author of Contested Spaces: Birthing Centers, Borders and Bodies is Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University and a Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and co-editing the Bloomsbury Global licensed architect in New York state. Photo Credit: and Hospitals and the editor of Fem- Encyclopedia of Women in Architec- Peter Bennetts GABRIELLE

BULLOCK, FAIA, NOMA, IIDA, LEED AP Principal, Director of Global Diversity Perkins+Will

Gabrielle oversees Perkins+Will’s ing on complex and socially signifi- Medical Center, and one of the largest building projects Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement cant projects in the US and globally ever completed for the University of California system. program, which works to support including healthcare and university and strengthen a firmwide culture projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Ara- Gabrielle graduated in 1984 from the Rhode Island School that embraces a diversity of peo- bia. Her passion is centered on the of Design with degrees in fine arts and architecture, be- ple, colors, creeds, credos, talents, planning and management of socially coming the second African-American woman in history to thoughts, and ideas. Her unique role responsible and culturally responsive earn an architecture degree from that university. In 2014, as an award-winning principal and the architecture. she was elected by her peers as a Fellow of the American firm’s Director of Global Diversity en- Gabrielle has been a key player in Institute of Architects (AIA), and served on the AIA’s Equity ables her to combine her passion for Perkins+Will’s success for nearly in Architecture Commission. She is a member of the Na- architecture and social justice to effect three decades. She’s worked in both tional Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), a past positive change at a micro and macro the New York and Los Angeles offices, board member of the Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, level. Gabrielle is regularly sought out and became the first African-Amer- and the AIA LA Center for Architecture and Urban Design around the world for her leadership ican and first woman to rise to the Los Angeles. Gabrielle was recently named International and expertise in issues of social equity position of Managing Director of the Interior Design Association (IIDA) President-Elect 2017- in architecture, including race, ethnic- Los Angeles office. Over the course 2018. ity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, of her career, she has led numerous and physical and mental ability. complex and high-profile projects, Gabrielle has spent her career focus- including the Ronald Reagan UCLA

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DANA CUFF Professor of Architecture UCLA, Director of cityLAB

Dana Cuff is a professor of architec- ceiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from of a State bill to encourage accessory dwelling units. She ture at the UCLA where she is also Berkeley, Cuff has published and lec- is author of several books, including The Provisional City Director of cityLAB, an award-winning tured widely about urban design, the about housing in Los Angeles, and Fast-Forward Urban- think tank that explores design inno- architectural profession, and afford- ism. She heads a major program at UCLA called the Urban vations in the emerging metropolis able housing. Working with California Humanities Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation. (www.cityLAB.aud.ucla.edu). Since re- legislators in 2017, she was co-author MILTON S. F. CURRY Della & Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair University of Southern California School of Architecture

Milton S. F. Curry holds the Della School of Design and Arizona State aesthetic underpinnings and imaginings—including mod- and Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair University. He was Associate Profes- ern architecture/urbanism, social constructions of identity, at the University of Southern Califor- sor of Architecture at Cornell from and notions of the enlightenment and egalitarianism. nia School of Architecture. He was 2002-2010, and Assistant Professor associate dean for academic affairs from 1995-2002. Dean Curry has In 2008 he founded CriticalProductive Journal, to focus on and strategic initiatives at the Univer- coordinated graduate and undergrad- issues of architecture, urbanism and cultural theory; and sity of Michigan Taubman College of uate design studios at all levels, and published two issues in 2011 (V1.1: Theoretic Action) and Architecture & Planning from 2010 to has taught theory-related seminars 2013 (V2.1: Post-Capitalist City), with new issues forth- 2017, a tenured Associate Professor of on architecture and cultural theory, coming starting in 2018. Dean Curry lectures widely and Architecture and an affiliate faculty in urbanism and housing throughout his is currently at work on two book manuscripts that explore the Department of Romance Litera- 24-year academic career. architecture race theory and contemporary urbanism, in tures and Languages. Dean Curry was addition to other creative projects. also project director of the Michigan/ With a consistent interrogation of Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and urbanism, modernity, and racialized the founder/director of the Michi- thinking, Dean Curry has amassed a gan Architecture Prep enrichment body of work that sets out to imagine program for high school students in an ‘architecture race theory.’ His writ- Detroit. ings and lectures, edited volumes, and creative works address race as part of Dean Curry has held teaching posi- the project of modernity and thus in- tions at Harvard University Graduate terconnected to its philosophical and

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SARAH

LORENZEN, AIA MODERATOR Partner TOLO Architecture, Professor of Architecture Cal Poly Pomona, Resident Director Neutra VDL Studio & Residence Sarah maintains one foot in practice and M.Arch II in Metropolitan, Research & De- one in academia. She is a partner at TOLO sign from Sci-Arc. During her early career, Architecture (previously Peter Tolkin Sarah worked on the design of research Architecture), architecture professor and and technology buildings at Lord, Arch and former chair at Cal Poly Pomona, and Sargent Architecture in Atlanta and at MBT resident director of the Neutra VDL Studio Architecture (now Perkins + Will Architec- and Residences. ture) in . Sarah has taught ur- ban design and architecture courses at Cal Sarah spent her first eighteen years living Poly Pomona (2005-present) and at Georgia in . At 18 she left Mexico to Tech (in 2000). In 2011-12 Sarah spent a attend college in the U.S. to pursue a BFA sabbatical at TU Delft in the Netherlands in Drawing at Smith College and at the conducting research on the influences of Atlanta College of Art. After graduating technology on mapping and urban develop- art school, she broadened her interest to ment. In 2015 Sarah was honored by AIA LA architecture, receiving an M.Arch I from with educator of the year. Georgia Institute of Technology and later an IRMA RAMIREZ Professor of Architecture Cal Poly Pomona

Irma Ramirez is a Professor of Architec- and China while developing working and ture at California State Polytechnic Univer- teaching relationships with North China sity, Pomona. Her expertise is in the areas University of Technology in Beijing. She of housing and Urban Design focusing on has published work in the area of urban social and cultural factors and community housing and urbanism with a focus on so- based design. Professor Ramirez holds a cial constructions of space and vernacular Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the sustainable systems. She dedicates much University of California, Berkeley, a Master of her practice and teaching to developing of Architecture and a Master of Urban housing and urban methodologies for Planning from the University of California displaced communities in Mexico and to at Los Angeles. Professor Ramirez has teaching interdisciplinary urban design won national planning awards from the studios in China and Japan. American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners, and has lectured internationally in Mexico

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TOAST & JAM NNOVATION + SUCCE NNOVATION Women at the Forefront of Innovation I OF S PRIL 27, 2014 | 10:00AM – 2:00PM A ROUND: STORIE G THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE SUNDAY, PRESENTS... INTERSECTIONALITY

BREAKING 2018 AWA+D Symposium & AWAF Scholarship Awards

INTERSECTIONS AND

SHARED IDEALS ACROSS rd Brunch Symposium 1329 East 3 Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033 Saturday 4.28.18 9am–1pm What causes moments of insight? When do you feel most “in the zone”? As creative professionals, we strive to learn from each other and glean inspiration from those DESIGN DISCIPLINES truly operating outside of the box. The Association for Women in Architecture + Design’s Toast & Jam brings together five cutting-edge design thinkers practicing in California. Their work is progressive, interdisciplinary, and often revolutionary. Please join us as they share their stories at A SERIES OF SHORT TALKS this celebratory symposium. BREAKING GROUND LORI DATE: Sunday, June 9, 2013 Stories of Innovation + Success BROWN

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LOCATION: Elysian, 2806 Clearwater St. Los Angeles, CA 90039 C Peter Bennetts Professor of Architecture Syracuse University As reported in the recently released 2013 Otis IUM D AWA+D Members: $50, Non-members: $70 SATURDAY Report on the Creative Economy, California S + REGISTER NOW! www.regonline.com/Toast-and-Jam ulver is home to virtually all artistic disciplines and AWA+D’s 2018 symposium event C INTERSECTIONALITY aims to catalyze APRIL 14, 2012 MORE INFO: www.awa-la.org/events or [email protected] a focal point for innovation. The Los Angeles MEDIA INQUIRIES & SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: [email protected] the potentials of intersectional region has one of the highest concentrations GABRIELLE feminism within the Los Angeles

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IMAGINING LA - 2017 AWA+D SYMPOSIUM, 2012 AWAF Awards Ceremony & Luncheon 2018

AWA+D is thrilled to to announce speakers for this year’s symposium, entitled IMAGINING LA. We’ve engaged a range of LA’s visionaries who will not only speak about those who have imagined LA in the past, but where our City is headed in the future.

Gail Goldberg: Executive Director of ULI Los Angeles (former Director of Los Angeles City Planning Department and Planning Director of the City of San Diego) Denice Wint: Senior Project Manager, Innovative Housing Opportunities Andra Hoffman: Los Angeles Community College District Trustee and California Community College Trustees Board member Ellen Wright: Director of Terminal Planning at Los Angeles World Airports Dora Epstein Jones (Moderator): Executive Director A+D Architecture + Design Museum

Saturday Woman’s Club May 13, 2017 of Hollywood 1749 N La Brea Ave 10am–2pm Los Angeles, CA 90046

Early Bird (Before April 19, 2017): $55 members/$80 non-members Regular (April 17-May 13, 2017): $75 members/$100 non-members Ticket + AWA+D Membership: $150 Student (Valid Student ID Required): $40

More information: awaplusd.org Fellowships, to apply: http://awaplusd.org/fellowships/ FELLLOWSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3:00 p.m. on Friday, March 31, 2017 Scholarships, to apply: http://awaplusd.org/scholarships/ SCHOLARSHIPS APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2015 2017

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