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Grace La
Nationality
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
(M.Arch., 1995)
Occupation(s)Principal, LA DALLMAN Professor of Architecture, Harvard University GSD
AwardsProgressive Architecture Award (2021)

Rice Design Alliance Prize (2011)

Emerging Voice of the Architectural League (2010)

Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal (2007)

Boston Society of Architects (4) (2017, 2017, 2019, 2022)

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Award (4) [1]

American Institute of Architects Wisconsin Design Awards (9)
PracticeLA DALLMAN (1999-present)
ProjectsKilbourn Tower, Marsupial Bridge & Media Garden, Miller Brewing Company Meeting Center, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall & New Riverwalk Entrance, Master Plan for the Menomonee Valley 2.0
Websiteladallman.com

Grace La (United States, 1970; Korean: 나은영; Korean pronunciation: Na Eun Young) is a first generation, Korean-American designer, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), and Principal of LA DALLMAN.[2] Co-founded with James Dallman, LA DALLMAN is a design firm recognized for the multidisciplinary integration of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape, with offices in Boston, MA and Milwaukee, WI.[3] La previously served as the Chair of the Harvard GSD's Practice Platform and served as GSD's Director of the Master of Architecture Programs (2014–17).[4]

Early life and education

La was raised in the New England area and studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. As a boarding student, she studied visual arts in the Andover curriculum pioneered by Gordon "Diz" Bensley [note 1] and was awarded the Pamela Wiedenman Memorial Prize in Art.[5] At Andover, she also participated in the Dakar Project involving the renovation of an elementary school on Goree Island in Senegal, West Africa, which was formative to her later pursuit of architecture. She joined the Andover Exeter Washington Intern Program, in which she interned for Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts.

La received her

magna cum laude from Harvard College
in Visual and Environmental Studies.

Family

La

non-profit and mission based entities is rooted in the deep appreciation for service and civic engagement
, which were instilled in her from her grandfather.

As noted in La's 2014

Postdoctoral Fellow of the renowned David Evans Lab at Harvard University
.

Career

Grace La is

Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2010) and Syracuse University
.

LA DALLMAN, her practice with partner James Dallman, is engaged in the transformation of site through spatial and material investigations ranging in type and scale.

the Architectural Record,[10] the firm has received numerous professional honors and exhibited and published widely.[11]

Grace La co-edited Skycar City

prototypes, including a mass-customized public seating prototype exhibited at Discovery World.[13][14][15] This work was featured in the Design Innovations Panel of the Metropolis Conference at ICFF in 2010.[16]

As Director of the

podcast series launched in October 2018.[18] Exploring matters and methods of practice, La has engaged podcast interviews with renowned designers such as Shohei Shigematsu, Jeanne Gang, Reinier de Graaf, Anna Heringer, Paul Nakazawa, Gary Hilderbrand, Preston Scott Cohen
, and others.

In September 2019- January 2020, La co-curated with Jeremy Ficca and Amy Kulper, an exhibition entitled, "Drawing Attention," at the Roca London Gallery. The exhibition, gathering more than seventy five exemplary contemporary architectural drawings, opened during the London Design Festival. The exhibit was reviewed by the Royal Institute of British Architects among others, and was noted as a top exhibit to see in November 2019 by London's Guardian. Together with Ficca and Kulper, La was also the Co-Chair of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's 107th Annual Conference, entitled "Black Box: Articulating Architecture's Core in the Post-Digital Era" in 2019, leading the national debate on questions of design pedagogy. According to the ACSA, the conference generated more than four hundred submissions, the largest quantity of responses in the last decade.

Honors and awards

La received four Faculty Design Awards from Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, honoring her for her projects that have "advance[d] the reflective nature of practice and teaching".[19][20] La received a university-wide honor from UWM for her exemplary teaching and research with the UWM Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.[21]

La's award-winning practice, LA DALLMAN, is honored with a 2021

North American practitioners to receive the prize, which was previously awarded to architects Antón García-Abril of Spain and Sou Fujimoto of Japan.[24]

In March 2021, LA DALLMAN's transformation of the Teweles & Brandeis Granary in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin was celebrated as the cover image of

Washington D.C., and the New Museum in New York City
.

Notable projects

LA DALLMAN is renowned for the

mock-up of the media garden "lightslabs", in the Reprogramming the City exhibit at the Danish Architecture Centre.[31][32]

Among others, La's completed projects co-authored with partner, James Dallman, include the

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, originally designed by Harry Weese
.

Further reading

Fabricated Landscapes: LA DALLMAN (UWM School of Architecture, 2009). Essays by Raymund Ryan, Filip Tejchman, Grace La, and James Dallman. Foreword by Robert Greenstreet.

Notes

  1. ^ "Gordon Bensley, 84; advanced the teaching of visual arts". The Boston Globe. 24 July 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. U.S. use the surname “La.” However, the surname of Na is actively in use in South Korea
    by all members of the family residing there.
  3. Presbyterian minister, who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Korean Presbyterian Church in 1961. Na Duk Whan was exhumed from his original interment site and re-buried in the Daejeon National Cemetery
    of Korea as a national honoree in 1991.
  4. ^ As a proponent of religious and cultural freedom and for his resistance to the Japanese occupation of South Korea, Na Duk Whan was imprisoned twice, for 6 months in 1921 and for four years from 1940-1944.
  5. ^ A Beautiful Heritage of Faith(2012) by Na Key Yound outlines his founding of the First Presbyterian Church in Suncheon and his notable charitable acts, including his personal sacrifices for the independence of Korea.
  6. Board of Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
    .

References

  1. ^ "ACSA Faculty Design Award". ACSA. 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. ^ Ryan, Sean (18 Feb 2013). "Grace La of LA DALLMAN to become professor at Harvard University". Milwaukee Business Journal. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  3. ^ La, Grace; Dallman, James (2009). Fabricated Landscapes. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. pp. 29–31.
  4. ^ a b "Grace La". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. ^ Phillips Academy Order of Exercises at Exhibition (PDF). Andover,MA: Phillips Academy. 5 June 1988.
  6. ^ "Past Winners of the Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design" (PDF). Harvard GSD. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  7. ^ Grace La (April 2014). One Harvard 2014 Faculty Alumni Panel: Grace La (video). Harvard University.
  8. ^ Millard, Pete (6 Mar 2005). "Architectural Couple Agree on Dividing Duties, Pursuing Public Projects". Milwaukee Business Journal. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  9. ^ Galef, Julia (3 Mar 2010). "La Dallman". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  10. ^ Czarnecki, J. (December 2002). "Taking a Leap of Faith". Architectural Record. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  11. ^ "Grace La appointed Full Professor at Harvard GSD, Department of Architecture". Archinect.com. 4 Mar 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  12. ^ Maas, Winny; La, Grace (September 2007). Skycar City. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  13. ^ Schumacher, Mary-Louise (4 Mar 2013). "Design Ideas: The Drift Bench". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  14. ^ "UWM students take their seat (to Discovery World)". UWM report. 10 Oct 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  15. ^ Rob Zdanowski (17 December 2011). Drift Public Seating (video).
  16. ^ "The Metropolis Conference @ ICFF: Design Entrepreneurs: What's Next". Metropolis. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  17. ^ "GSD Factbook" (PDF). Harvard GSD. Mar 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  18. ^ "Graduate School of Design launches 'Talking Practice' podcast". Harvard Gazette. 5 Oct 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  19. ^ "ACSA Faculty Design Award". ACSA. 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  20. ^ "ACSA Faculty Design Award Recipients". ACSA. 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  21. ^ "UWM 2004-05 Annual Report Awards and Recognition Committee" (PDF). UWM. 14 Sep 2005. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  22. ^ The Architectural League of New York (2015). 30 Years of Emerging Voices, Idea, Form, Resonance. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 254.
  23. ^ "Spotlight Award Winners: LA DALLMAN". Swiss-Architects. 7 Sep 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  24. ^ "2017 Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Prize goes to OOPEAA". Bustler. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  25. Architect: The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects
    : 82–85. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  26. ^ Czarnecki, J. (December 2002). "Taking a Leap of Faith". Architectural Record. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  27. ^ Tejchman, Filip (October 2008). "Out of Bonds". PRAXIS Journal of Writing and Building (10: Urban Matters). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  28. ISBN 9781568987187
    .
  29. Rudy Bruner Award
    . Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  30. ^ Gould, W (26 Apr 2004). "Pockets of Orphaned Land are Opportunities for Lively Design". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  31. ^ "Reprogramming the City". Danish Architecture Centre. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  32. ISBN 3869221313
    .
  33. ^ Bamberger, Tom (29 Feb 2008). "Accidental Beauty". Milwaukee Magazine. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
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