AIA Awards and Architecture Lecture

AIA Awards and Architecture Lecture

October 29, 6–7:30 pm

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The AIA Fort Worth Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural, urban design, and unbuilt projects by architects practicing in the Fort Worth chapter to promote public interest in design excellence. Award announcements will begin at 6:00 pm, followed by a lecture by awards juror Rebecca Rudolph from Los Angeles-based architecture and design studio, Design, Bitches.

ABOUT REBECCA RUDOLPH AND DESIGN, BITCHES 

Rebecca Rudolph is a principal and co-founder of the firm Design, Bitches. Founded in 2010 with fellow architect Catherine Johnson, the Los Angeles-based integrative studio is known for its bold and irreverent designs, creating significant spaces for daily life. Recognized as rebellious pragmatists, the duo collaborates with leading creative and entrepreneurial clients on commercial and residential architecture and interiors, brand identities, and experiential installation design.

With a background in philosophy and architecture, Rudolph leads the studio’s concept design work, partnering with innovative retail startups including Modern Animal and Breeze Dental and spearheading the firm’s City of Los Angeles ADU Standard Plan contribution, a model for accessible multi-generational dwellings. She has directed numerous award-winning projects, including the Atwater House and Midnight Room residences, Button Mash, the Lodge Room music venue, Counter Culture training centers, and 9 Dots, a STEM education space. Deeply passionate about storytelling and narrative, she explores transdisciplinary work by integrating graphic design and branding into architectural projects such as Superba Food + Bread and Fatty Mart.

We explore human psychology and our relationship to the physical world, embedding psychological references and building in moments of joy through the use of color, surface textures, playing with scale and proportion, the qualities of light and negative space. Our love of the environment instills in our work a sense of responsibility and desire to bring people closer to nature. We firmly believe that our work must draw from, respond to and improve the life of the neighborhood in which it is located. It is created to be lived in, and as such improves with the experiences each occupant brings to the space. —Design, Bitches

Design, Bitches is recognized as one of AN Interior’s Top 50 Interior Architecture firms in the US for the past six years running, and was recently named Best Small Firm in the West by The Architect's Newspaper; the studio is also a worldwide finalist for Architizer's A+Awards’ Best XS Firm designation. In 2017, Design, Bitches received the prestigious Emerging Practice Award from the AIA Los Angeles chapter. In 2016, The Architectural Review short-listed Design, Bitches for the Women in Architecture Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. The studio claims over ten AIA Los Angeles Design Awards as well as numerous other local and national awards. Their work has been featured in publications including Architectural Record, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, Metropolis, The New York Times, Surface, Vogue, and Wallpaper.

Rudolph and Johnson co-taught as distinguished visiting faculty at the University of Oregon in 2016 and have taught graduate and undergraduate design studios at Woodbury University in Los Angeles. They have lectured at institutions across the nation including California Institute of the Arts, Columbia University, George Washington University, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California, and Yale University. Internationally, they have lectured at Delft University of Technology’s Berlage Center and headlined the New Zealand Festival of Architecture. Rebecca received her MArch from SCI-Arc and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Paris 8 .