Fougeron Architecture

Anne fougeron Since founding her San Francisco firm in 1986, Anne Fougeron, AIA, has built a distinguished practice recognized equally for its design excellence and commitment to the common good. Honored with AIA California's 2022 Maybeck Award, Fougeron is renowned for her outstanding achievement as a humane modernist who advances design's vocabulary and power to transform lives. Her influence extends beyond her innovative work to significant contributions to the profession as a speaker, mentor, educator, and design advocate. As a member of the AIACC Monterey Design Conference committee since 2005, she championed an inclusive, international lineup of speakers that has made the MDC one of the most celebrated gatherings of its kind. During her tenure on the AIACC Design Awards Committee (2012-15), she advocated for design award juries that reflect the profession's demographics in California, work she continued as chair of the AIA San Francisco Awards Committee. She is also heralded for another primary commitment to the field: passionately elevating the profile and potential of women architects. Throughout her career, Fougeron has taught and lectured regularly, including visiting professorships at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, California College of the Arts, and the University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. In addition to her work with Planned Parenthood, she has lent her leadership to the SFMOMA Architecture + Design Accessions Committee and the board of Creative Growth, a nonprofit supporting artists with disabilities. Fougeron's record of achievements underscores her far-reaching influence. Her work has appeared in leading publications from Europe to Asia, including Abitare, Domus, The Architectural Review, GA, A+U, The New York Times, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and Dwell. Her practice has received dozens of awards, including six national-level AIA honors. But perhaps most importantly--especially to Fougeron--her accomplishments invite all present and future architects to design in the spirit of humanism and equity. MERYATI BLACKWELL Meryati Blackwell (Ati) leads an internationally renowned design practice with her partner, AIA Gold Medalist Marlon Blackwell, focusing deliberately on civic projects in education, recreation, health care, and culture that foster the community and the public good. In every instance, she works to offer dignity through design, treating people and places with respect, believing every project demands unique responses that are innovative, tactile, and carefully attuned to local conditions and cultures. Ati's impactful work is seen through a wide variety of projects that have been recognized in numerous architectural design journals and books. Her firm has received more than 180 significant design awards including state, regional, national and international awards, notably including the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. DANA CUFF Dana Cuff is Founding Director of cityLAB and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA. Since receiving her Ph.D. in architecture, Cuff has dedicated her career to converting research into actions that have meaningful implications for social justice, particularly related to affordable housing and shared urban space. Cuff has had greater public impact than most academics through the co-authoring of successful state housing legislation grounded in cityLAB's research. Two bills she co-authored have made tens of thousands of infill housing units possible, with ADUs otherwise known as granny flats (AB 2299, 2016) and Education Workforce Housing on k12 public school land (AB2295, 2023). Since cityLAB began in 2006, its impacts have grown significantly under Cuff's leadership, becoming a model for design-based urban and architectural research centers nationwide. JULIE EIZENBERG Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, FRAIA, Founding partner of KoningEizenberg Architecture gives visibility to the design value and potential of community projects and people-oriented practice. Under her leadership, Koning Eizenberg has earned over 200 design and sustainability awards and been widely published in the US and abroad. The practice has been honored as AIA California's Firm of the Year and, together with Hank Koning, Julie was recognized with the AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, the Australian Institute of Architects' Gold Medal, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award and, in 2022, inducted into the National Academy of Design. Julie teaches and lectures around the world and has shared the practice's interests in influential monographs including ""Architecture isn't just for special occasions"" which highlights the value of social engagement and ""Urban Hallucinations"" which examines how the idyll of local shapes neighborhoods. YVONNE FARRELL Yvonne Farrell is an architect and academic. Together with Shelley McNamara, she co-founded Grafton Architects, based in Dublin. The practice has won numerous awards for their work, including: The RIAI Institute of Architects of Ireland Gold Medal for Bocconi University, Milan; the inaugural RIBA International Prize for UTEC, Lima, Peru; the RIBA Royal Gold Medal; L' Équerre d'argent Prize for Toulouse School of Economics, France; Mies Van der Rohe Award 2022 for Town House, Kingston University, London. Having taught in numerous Universities, including Harvard and Yale, Farrell and McNamara are currently Professors at the Accademia di Archittettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland. In 2018, they were the Curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Their manifesto: Freespace was the title of the Biennale. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were named as the 2020 Pritzker Prize Laureates. RUDABEH PAKRAVAN Rudabeh Pakravan is a registered architect and a principal at Sidell Pakravan Architects, a practice based in Berkeley. In her teaching, she approaches architecture as a physical exploration of space, form, scale, and volume that in practice translates to the ways architecture creates civic and social engagement. She is interested in how architectural form affects individual and collective experience, the rules and processes that influence building, and architecture's influence on culture and the city. In her housing studios, she works with students to explore specific relationships between architectural elements and the public realm. Her research on architecture and public space has been published by the Annenberg School of Communication and Places Journal. Her practice currently has a number of residential, commercial, and civic projects underconstruction and has been recognized with Architectural Record's Design Vanguard award.