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Follow on Google News | Prominent Women Architects from Woodbury School of Architecture Address Facades+ ConferenceAt High Profile Gatherings on High Design Building Skins and Women in Design, Barbara Bestor, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Annie Chu Weigh In
Facades+ leads a robust dialogue that covers all aspects of building envelopes. The event is instrumental in creating resilient buildings, systems integration, and a sustainable built environment. Facades+ hosts an ongoing nationwide series of forums and conferences, with stops in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Washington, D.C., among others. Barbara Bestor, director of Woodbury University's Julius Shulman Institute and founding chair of the school's graduate architecture program, spoke about her role as an urban mediator. Drawing upon her experience as designer of the award-winning Beats by Dre headquarters in Culver City, among other projects, Bestor's session highlighted the interplay between interior and exterior, small and large scale spaces and traditions of high and low design. Also building on Woodbury's reputation at the intersection of cutting edge architectural practice and hands-on scholarship, associate dean Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter joined a lively panel discussion with such leading design educators as UCLA's Neil Denari, USC's Quinyun Ma and Cal Poly Pomona's Michael Fox. The panel examined how future architects and engineers are being taught systems integration and building performance. At an event that took place concurrently with the Facades+ conference, Interior Architecture Prof. Annie Chu, FAIA, moderated Haworth + Gensler's 5th Annual Women in Design Breakfast Panel. Chu's firm, Chu + Gooding Architects, is part of the primary design team that has been awarded the $350 million Los Angeles Convention Center renovation project. In 2014, Chu received the International Interior Design Association's Leadership Award of Excellence from IIDA's Southern California chapter and was recently named to the American Institute of Architects Fellowship program. The Facades+ conference and Haworth + Gensler's Breakfast Panel follow a recent Los Angeles Magazine article, "Six Women Who Changed the Face of L.A. Architecture," The School of Architecture (http://architecture.woodbury.edu/ Woodbury University School of Architecture is a network of hubs strategically sited within the Southern California megalopolis: About Woodbury University Founded in 1884, Woodbury University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Southern California. With campuses in Burbank/Los Angeles and San Diego, the university offers bachelor's degrees from the School of Architecture, School of Business, School of Media, Culture & Design, and College of Transdisciplinarity, along with a Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts in Media for Social Justice, Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Interior Architecture (MIA), Master of Science in Architecture (MSArch), Master of Leadership, and Master of Arts in Media for Social Justice. The San Diego campus offers Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture, Master of Interior Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees, as well as an MSArch degree with a concentration in Real Estate Development and Landscape + Urbanism. Woodbury ranks 15th among the nation's "25 Colleges That Add the Most Value," according to Money Magazine and is a 2014-2015 College of Distinction. Visit woodbury.edu (http://www.woodbury.edu/) Media Contact Ken Greenberg Edge Communications, Inc. (323) 469-3397 ken@edgecommunicationsinc.com End
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