Galia Solomonoff
Born1968
Rosario, Santa Fe

Galia Solomonoff AIA is an Argentinian-born architect and the founding creative director of New York-based architecture and design firm Solomonoff Architecture Studio. Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for international institutional projects.

Biography

Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Solomonoff received her master's degree in Architecture from Columbia University, where she was awarded the McKim Prize for Excellence in Design and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, and her Sc.B. in Architecture from the City College of New York in 1991.[1]

Prior to founding SAS, Solomonoff worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Rafael Viñoly, and Bernard Tschumi Architects, as well as OpenOffice. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, Cooper Union, Yale University, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Solomonoff is the recipient of two AIA Design Awards, grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and recognition in the Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices series. She has been featured in the New York Times,[2] New York Magazine's premiere issue of editor Wendy Goodman's stand-alone Design Hunting,[3] More Magazine,[4] and Designers & Books.[5] In 2007, New York named her part of New York's "next garde".[6]

Selected projects

  • "Mini Marfa" Townhouse, New York
  • Dia:Beacon
  • Angelo Galasso Store, Plaza Hotel, New York
  • Kaffe 1668
  • Lillian Ball Studio
  • Tribeca Apartment
  • Park Avenue South Lobby Renovation
  • East Village Condominiums
  • Brooklyn Townhouse and Photography Studio
  • Chelsea Loft
  • West Village Carriage House

Selected publications

  • Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering, eds. Michael Bell and Craig Buckley (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012)
  • Public Housing: A New Conversation (New York: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, 2009)
  • Layered Urbanisms: Gregg Pasquarelli / Galia Solomonoff / Mario Gooden (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 )
  • Latin American Architecture: Six Voices (Studies in Architecture and Culture, No 5)
  • “Defecting Fame,” Perspecta 37 (2005): 122-130

References

  1. ↑ Cohen, Joyce (2010-04-02). "When 'Live-Work' No Longer Works (Published 2010)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  2. ↑ Joyce Cohen, "When Live-Work No Longer Works" New York Times 2010
  3. ↑ David Hay, Warhol, Hirst, and Finger Paintings, http://nymag.com/homedesign/design-hunting/2012/spring/warhol-hirst-greenwich-village/
  4. ↑ Susan Swimmer, "Architects of Style" Archived 2012-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, More Magazine 2012
  5. ↑ "Galia Solomonoff's Book List" Designers & Books 2012
  6. ↑ David Colman, "The Next Garde", New York Magazine 2007


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