Partial Resumé:
Education:
Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts, History Department, University of California, Berkeley
Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, Switzerland
San Francisco Art Institute
Teaching:
University of California, Architecture Department
Harvard University, Landscape Department
Yale University, Department of Art and Architecture
Rice University, Department of Architecture
ILAUD Architectural Program, Siena, Italy
Head of Landscape Department, CCAC, San Francisco
San Francisco Art Institute
Published Works:
Good Mourning California Rizzoli International Publication,1992
Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden, Rizzoli International Publication, 1988
Green Architecture , Design Quarterly l20, Walker Art Center, 1982
"2 Fields + 3 Houses = Landscape," Transforming the American Garden, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Honors:
San Francisco Arts Commissioner, 2001-2005
NEA Distinguished Design Fellow, 1990
ASLA Honor Award. Regis Garden, Walker Art Center
Commonwealth Club of California, Silver Medal, Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden, 1989
American Academy in Rome, Fellowship, 1983
AIA Industrial Arts Medal, 1970
AIA awards for Supergraphics, The Sea Ranch, Ghiradelli Square, 1966-1970
Governor's Design Award, State of California, 1966
Landscapes:
Vesey Green, Battery Park City, New York (competition winner), 1996
Ribbon of Light, Embarcadero Promenade, San Francisco (with Vito Acconci and Stanley Saitowitz), 1991
Tuileries Gardens, Paris (competition winner with Pascal Cribier and Louis Benech), l99l
Regis Garden, Cowles Conservatory, Walker Art Center, (with Michael Van Falkenburgh), 1988
Red Palms, San Francisco International airport, Central Terminal, 1983
Turia Gardens, Valencia, Spain, (for Ricardo Bofill),1982
Solo Exhibitions:
Green Architecture, Antonio Jannone Gallery, Milan, 1989
Green Architecture, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 1988
Green Architecture, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich, 1985
Grids on the Port of St Francis, Philippe Bonnafont Gallery, SF, 1984
Green Architecture, the Urban League, 1984
Green Architecture, Walker Art Center, 1982
SIGNS, Design Research, San Francisco, New York, Cambridge, 1968
SUBWAYS, The Architectural League of New York, 1968
Group Exhibitions:
246 and Counting, SFMOMA, 2008
A New World Trade Center Design Proposals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York; National Building Museum in Washington, DC; 8th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, 2002.
Green, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 199l
Visionary San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1990
Graphic design in America, Walker Art Center, 1989
New Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1989
Transforming the American Landscape, Harvard University, 1989
Progresso Venezia, Biennale de Venezia, 1985
Architecture+Art+Landscape, SF Museum of Modern Art, 1985
High Styles: 20th Century American Design, Whitney Museum
The American Academy in Rome, 1983
California Conditions, La Jolla Museum of contemporary Arts, 1982
Urban Obsessions, La Jolla Museum, 1982
Color, Whitney Museum, 1974
Experimental Graphic Design, Biennale de Venezia, 1972
La Rue, Centre de Creatiion Industrelle, Paris, 1970
Design and Printing, The Louvre, Paris, 1963
Bio:
Born San Francisco, California December 5, 1928
Married to Frank Stauffacher 1948; daughter Chloe Stauffacher
Married to Daniel Solomon 1968; daughter Nellie King Solomon