Speaker

Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, FRAIA, Founding Principal at Koning Eizenberg Architecture brings an empathetic perspective to the design of award-winning and inclusive community places. She is currently serving as a Director of the Council on Open Building. She was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2022, awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Architecture award in 2021, and honored as a Design Leader in Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture Awards in 2020. In 2019, she was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 2012, the AIA | LA Chapter Gold Medal. Julie has also written influential monographs including “Architecture isn’t just for special occasions” which highlights the value of social engagement as a rich reserve for design and “Urban Hallucinations” which examines how the idyll of local shapes neighborhoods.