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Grace La Is Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Principal of LA DALLMAN Architects Grace La is Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Principal of LA DALLMAN Architects. La’s work is internationally recognized for the integration of architecture, engineering and landscape. Cofounded with James Dallman, LA DALLMAN is engaged in catalytic projects of diverse scale and type. Noted for works that expand the architect's agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure, public space and challenging sites, LA DALLMAN was named as an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York in 2010 and received the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal in 2007. In 2011, LA DALLMAN was the first practice in the United States to receive the Rice Design Alliance Prize, an international award recognizing exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their career. LA DALLMAN has also been awarded numerous professional honors, including architecture and engineering awards, as well as prizes in international design competitions. LA DALLMAN’s built work includes the Kilbourn Tower, the Miller Brewing Meeting Center (original building by Ulrich Franzen), the University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee (UWM) Hillel Student Center, the Ravine House, the Gradient House and the Great Lakes Future and City of Freshwater permanent science exhibits at Discovery World. The Crossroads Project transforms infrastructure for public use, including a 700‐foot‐long Marsupial Bridge, a bus shelter and a media garden. LA DALLMAN is currently commissioned to design additions to the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (original building by Harry Weese and landscape by Dan Kiley), the 2013 Master Plan for the Menomonee Valley and the Harmony Project, a 100,000‐square‐foot hybrid arts building for professional dance, which includes a ballet school, a university dance program and a medical clinic. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Harmony Project a grant in support of the design process in 2012. LA DALLMAN’s work has been featured in many publications including Architect, a+t, Architectural Record, Azure, Praxis and Topos, as well as in books released by Princeton Architectural Press and Routledge. Architect profiled the firm’s design culture in June, 2012. LA DALLMAN's work has been widely exhibited, including at the Heinz Architectural Center in the Carnegie Museum of Art. La is coeditor and author of Skycar City (Actar, 2007), featuring the inaugural Marcus Prize Studio, which was exhibited at the 2008 Venice Biennale. She is also the cofounder and three‐time editor of UWM's Calibrations and a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Architectural Education. Previously, La served as a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM, receiving tenure in 2005. She served as the Chair of the Planning and Coordinating Committee, where she led efforts in the department’s strategic planning, curriculum reform and hiring initiatives. La also served as a Design Critic in Architecture at the GSD (2010) and a Visiting Critic at Syracuse University (2011). She has delivered lectures at prestigious universities and cultural institutions including the New Museum in New York City, the National Building Museum in Washington DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. La’s teaching, research and prototype design work were funded by KI, exhibited at Discovery World, and featured in the annual Metropolis Conference at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (2010). Demonstrating a unique ability to link the profession and the academy, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has bestowed La with four Faculty Design Awards, which honor outstanding projects that advance the reflective nature of practice and teaching. Additionally, she has received numerous teaching awards including the 2005 UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. La is a member of the United States General Services Administration (GSA) National Registry of Peer Professionals (class of 2010), which is comprised of the nation's most distinguished private sector leaders in art, design, engineering and construction. She has also served as an adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Arts, the US Artists Fellowship and several AIA Design Awards Programs. Grace La received her professional MArch with thesis distinction from the GSD, winning the Clifford Wong Housing Prize. She graduated with an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in Visual and Environmental Studies. CURRICULUM VITAE 1. GRACE E. LA Department of Architecture LA DALLMAN Harvard University Graduate School of Design 225 E. St. Paul Suite 302 48 Quincy Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 Cambridge, MA 02138 www.ladallman.com [email protected] [email protected] 2. GENERAL INFORMATION 2.1 Formal Education 2.1.1 HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN M. Arch, professional degree, with thesis distinction, Jan. 1995. James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize finalist, and winner of the Clifford Wong Housing Prize. Honored as one of two students with the highest grade, Distinction, by the GSD faculty for Thesis, fall 1994. 2.1.2 HARVARD COLLEGE Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1992, in Visual and Environmental Studies. Accepted under early admission to the GSD, as a junior. Awarded the Harvard College John Harvard College Scholarship for academic achievement of high distinction, 1991 and the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Certificate of Merit for outstanding academic excellence, 1990. 2.1.3 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Architecture Studio, spring 1989. 2.1.4 PHILLIPS ACADEMY, Andover Intern under Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, Andover/Exeter Washington Intern Program; Winner of the Dakar Project Essay Competition. 2.3 Academic and Professional Positions Held Academic Positions 2.3.1 HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN Professor with tenure, 2013- present Coordinator, Architecture Core Studio entitled, “Situate.” Developed pedagogy and coordinated six sections of this required studio, taught in the 2nd semester. Member, GSD Campaign Leadership Committee Member, Joint Center for Housing Studies Advisory Group 2.3.2 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – Milwaukee Professor with tenure, 2013 Associate Professor with tenure, 2005- 2013 Assistant Professor, 1999-2005 Responsible for teaching design, construction / technology (building systems), theory of technology, and directing M.Arch theses. [See Section 4.A.3 for course detail]. STUDIOS: Grace E. La, page 2 -Director of four KI sponsored studios: “Auditoria Redux,” focuses on collective gathering, auditorium typology. “Learning Landscapes” focuses on higher education spaces. “Collegiate Cocooning” focuses on dormitory housing. “Fabrications,” collaboration with KI engineers in the development of two furniture prototypes: Drift Public Seating and I-Flip Table. -Created the curriculum for inaugural Marcus Prize Studio, “Skycar City,” co- taught with Winy Maas of MVRDV. Authored the body text and co-edited, SKYCAR CITY (Actar, 2007). -Created the curriculum for the following additional studios: “Urban Archipelagos: vessels and membranes” focuses on the projective potential of Milwaukee’s Inner Harbor. “Oneiric Space: the making of a theatre” focuses on the design of theatres and collective gathering space “Spatial Translucency: a study of thresholds in housing” focuses on housing sited in Boston, MA and Milwaukee, WI. -Developed and coordinated the 2nd semester core, graduate studio ARCH 820, focusing on projects studying relationships of scale. -Taught Undergraduate Core Curriculum studios, ARCH 410 and 420 (seniors). CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY: -Co-taught the required introductory building technology lecture course (ARCH 301), 80 students, focusing on environmental controls, day-lighting, and building envelope. I was predominantly responsible for the building envelope lectures. -Responsible for teaching the intermediate building technology course (ARCH 516) of 25 students, undergraduate seniors and graduate students, focusing on building envelope systems ranging from masonry bearing wall construction to curtain wall skin systems. This course is comprised of lectures, field visits to construction sites, and five projects in which students design varying building envelope systems at large scale. THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY: -Designed a new seminar entitled “The Aperture Analyzed: the form and phenomenology of openings,” focusing on the analysis of apertures tectonically and experientially. This seminar combined my research in construction and design, stemming from the collaboration on a patented window system developed while at Jonathan Levi’s office, as well as interests in the relationship between apertures and spatial considerations. MASTER’S PROJECT THESIS COMMITTEES: -Served as both Chair and Member of M.Arch thesis committees that have resulted in 14 thesis prizes, the majority of which I served as Chair of the committee [See Teaching Awards 4.A.5.6 for over 40 student design awards for my students, including AIA Chicago Student Design Awards]. 2.3.3 HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Cambridge, MA Design Critic in Architecture, Fall 2010 Co-taught with James Dallman an upper level Options Studio. Options Studios are taught by notable practitioners and are offered as the penultimate elective studio prior to the students’ thesis semester. STUDIO: “Poseidon’s Temple: vessels, membranes and urban archipelagos” [See Section 4.A.3 for detail of the studio]. Grace E. La, page 3 2.3.4 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY Visiting
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