18 in fall 2013. The project features a full RGB media façade, the largest to date in China, and two glazed funnel structures, spanning from floor to ceiling and housing the shopping mall’s four panoramic elevators. It is UNStudio’s first finished project in China. Aaron Leppanen (M.Arch ’06) and Gabriela Anker, LEED AP (M.Arch ’06), co-founders of L+A arquitectos, won a national competition for La Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The university will be designated for graduate and post-graduate education for the study of biodiversity, biology, ecological conservation, natural resources and prevention and mitigation of risks. The collaborative included A0 Estudios y del Hierro UA. L+A arquitectos also finished a 10,000- sq. ft. library renovation and addition at Colegio Alberto Einstein, a K-12 school in Quito, Ecuador. For both projects, the L+A arquitectos design team included Peter Matthews, NCARB + LEED AP (M.Arch ’06). Gordon Magnin’s (M.Arch ’06) work was published in Gestalten’s The Age of Collage, a book showcasing outstanding current artwork and artists. Magnin also completed an illustration for Glamour Italia and his work has been featured by Blaahg Magazine. Santino Medina (M.Arch ’06) of Gehry Technologies was promoted to senior project manager and has relocated to Shanghai to assist in integrating an overall BIM strategy for the upcoming Shanghai Disneyland Resort. Emily White (M.Arch ’06) and Lisa Little (M.Arch ’06) of Layer LA unveiled their Three Horned Beast installation at the Plummer Park in West Hollywood. Their powder-coated aluminum structure was previously on view for three years at The New Children’s Museum in San Diego. Carlos Hernandez (B.Arch ’08) and Barbara Leon (B.Arch ’08), co-founders of design collective HELEO, have recently completed the first construction phase of Cerveceria Insurgente, one of Baja California’s only craft breweries, located in Tijuana, B.C. Mexico. The project includes a production facility, restaurant, bar, tasting room and roof beer garden, and is slated to open to the public by winter 2014. Barbara Leon (B.Arch ’08), a project manager for Poon Design, has recently completed three residential developments in the Palm Springs and Coachella Valley for the Alta Verde Group. Featured by the Los Angeles Times, Poon Design and Alta Verde Group have been credited with bringing back truly modern tract housing, receiving top national design awards. Matthew Rosenberg (M.Arch ’09) of M-Rad submitted a design proposal for a new $320-million Cultural Precinct for the Gold Coast in Australia. He was invited to jury the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative competition in Denmark and will speak at the American Society of Landscape Architects annual conference in Denver, Colo. in November. Rosenberg was recently
featured by publications including Fast Company, Civil Engineering Magazine, Phaidon, Gizmag, Swipelife, AIA Magazine, ABC Action News and Las Vegas Sun. Brett Grinkmeyer (M.Arch ’00) has opened his own firm BG-Arc in Austin, Texas. He recently completed La Casa residence, a single family home in an Austin suburb.
2010s
Tom Ames (SCIFI ’11) is working in San Francisco for RYS Architects, which specializes in hospitality design. Stephen Sun (B.Arch ’11) was accepted into Harvard’s Graduate School of Design M.Arch II program. He is currently working at aedis architects in San Jose, Calif., designing schools. In his spare time, he is helping teach a design build “studio” for seventh graders at The Hillbrook School. Carmelia Chiang (B.Arch ’12) showcased her work, Tangential Mode, at Artivism 2014. The project represents a continuation of Chiang’s thesis research focused on tangential space. Building on her thesis project, Off on a Tangent, Chiang indroduces a series of studies that examine the relationship of lines, surfaces, volumes and the implied boundaries. Rania Hoteit (M.Arch ’13) and Malek Idriss (M.Arch ’13) co-founded ID4A, a design practice based in San Francisco. Their research into creating pliable, reconfigurable 3D prints has been featured extensively by tech blogs including engineering.com, themethodcase.com and 3ders.org. Alex Phi (M.Arch ’13) is working as a designer at Gensler Los Angeles. His graduate thesis was featured by SuckerPunchDaily, SuperArchitects, Futures+Design and Taller al Cubo. Phi was selected to be exhibited in AIA’s 2014 Center for Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition in Washington, D.C. at the AIA headquarters. He competed in eVoLo’s 2014 Skyscraper Competition and in Bustler’s DawnTown Design competition.
(Continued from page 13) Alumni and former faculty members at the Class of 1989’s 25th reunion dinner (from left to right) Front row: Barbara Ellis, Steve Suchman, Jackie Pimentel, Ray and Shelly Kappe, Connie Cohen, Ann Jones, Peter Borrego and his sons Second row: Geoff Kahn, Conway Beg, Kok Yang Ng, Beth Gibb, Vicky and Bill Simonian
Third row: Dean Nota and Linda Jo Russell-Nota, Neil McLean, Dana Swinsky, Neal Borsuk Back row: Hitoshi Abe, Robin Kremen, Michael Rotondi, April Greiman, Heather Kurze, Robert Mangurian, Mary-Ann Ray Guests not pictured: Chris Aykanian, Cara Lee, Stephan Mundwiler