Although female students now outnumber male students at the
USC School of Architecture, this was not always the case.
Join us as we celebrate
100 years of
Women in USC Architecture with a look back and a panel discussion with some of our outstanding alumnae.
Schedule Participants:
Trudi Sandmeier
Director,
Heritage Conservation Programs
USC School of Architecture
Ruth Wallach (
MHC 2013)
Director of Arts and
Humanities Libraries
USC
Ena Dubnoff (
B. Arch 1960)
Ena Dubnoff received a
Bachelor of Architecture degree from USC, graduating cum laude and earning the
AIA Medal for
Excellence in Architecture. At
Columbia University, she earned a
Masters Degree in
Urban Design and was awarded a Willliam
Kinne Fellows traveling fellowship which allowed her to travel widely and to spend a year in
India. She established her own practice in
1984 and her focus has been designing multi-family housing for low-income households and projects for providers of social services for local communities. She is a founding partner of ONE
Company, a partnership of four women started to develop affordable housing with a multitude of projects in
Los Angeles and
Oregon. Dubnoff has lectured extensively and been a faculty member at the
University of Southern California,
Southern California Institute of Architecture, and
Pennsylvania State University.
Therese M.
Gain (
B.S. Arch 1974)
Therese Gain is the Director of Facilities for the
Fremont Unified School District. Ms. Gain oversees all of the facility planning and construction activities of the
District.
The District maintains 42 school sites for 33,000 students in
Kindergarten through
12th grade, plus some pre-school and adult school programs. Ms. Gain is currently overseeing the District’s implementation of a $650 million dollar bond program to construct health and safety, technology and general modernization improvements throughout the District. The District’s construction program also includes the addition of new classroom buildings and the conversion of five junior high school campuses to middle schools. The construction of a developer-built elementary school is also currently in the planning stage.
Jenna Knudsen, AIA
LEED AP BD+
C (B. Arch
1997)
Jenna Knudsen, an associate principal with CO
Architects in Los Angeles, has been immersed in the design and management of large-scale healthcare and academic projects in which she has embraced BIM-enabled integrated project delivery. Her recent work on major projects such as
Palomar Medical Center and the
Health Sciences Education Building in
Phoenix placed her at the leading edge of this pioneering practice model, and for which she was recognized by the
American Institute of Architects as a
2011 AIA
Young Architect Award recipient. Through regional and national speaking engagements, Jenna has advocated
BIM as both a design and team integration tool. In addition to a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California, Jenna holds a
Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design
from Columbia University, where she was awarded an
Honor Award for Excellence in
Design and a
William Kinne
Traveling Fellowship.
Christine M. Lampert, AIA,
NCARB (B.S. Arch 1974)
Christine Lampert is a principal with her firm Lampert Dias Architects,
Inc. is located in
San Clemente, California. Her professional practice includes commercial, retail, school and government projects, banks, libraries, custom residential, senior housing, community centers, adult day care facilities, historic rehabilitations, and master planning projects. She is also the
Senior Associate Director of Architecture for
UDP International LLC in
Hong Kong, an international master planning firm with an architecture division in Hong Kong. She has served as an adjunct faculty member for several institutions, including USC.
Kelly Sutherlin McLeod,
FAIA (B. Arch
1983)
Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc. (est.
1988) has been recognized by the AIA,
California Preservation Foundation (
CPF),
Los Angeles Conservancy, and
California Governor’s
Historic Preservation Award.
The project architect for the nationally recognized
Gamble House conservation project and for the restoration of the
Japanese House located at the
Huntington Library,
Art Collections, and
Botanical Gardens, the firm recently completed the Hafley House, designed by
Richard Neutra in
1953. Kelly lectures for the USC School of Architecture’s Heritage Conservation
Summer Course, and at conferences around the
Country. Kelly is a member of the
Board of Councilors for the USC School of Architecture; a member of the
Urban Land Institute; the USC Architectural
Guild;
CPF Board of Trustees;
Board of Directors for the
Association for Preservation
Technology International (APTi) and serves as co-chair for APTi’s Technical Committee on
Modern Heritage.
- published: 04 Apr 2015
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