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Jennifer Siegal is an American architect based out of Venice, California. She earned her Master’s degree in Architecture from SCI-Arc in 1994 and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2003. She is the founder and principal of the Office of Mobile Design, which has it’s foundations in ecologically sound construction and the design of dynamic portable and prefabricated architecture. In addition she teaches at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California.

School and Career
Jennifer Siegal was born December 11th, 1965, in Manhattan, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies in 1987 from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. From 1985-86 she studied architecture at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. In 1990-1994, she studied architecture at SCI-Arc, receiving her master’s degree. She then participated in a 1997 3-month residence at Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. She was selected in 2002-2003 to be a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design; here she focused her studies in lightweight, intelligent, kinetic materials. In 2004, she was a fellow at MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

After completing her undergraduate studies, she traveled west and spent 6 months living and working in residence at Arcosanti at Cordes Junction, Arizona -- learning directly from Paolo Soleri. Siegal has worked at multiple firms, including in 1988 Skidmore Owings and Merrill in, San Francisco, CA and Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates, Santa Monica, CA from 1994-1995. She founded SINO Design from 1995-1998 and ultimately in 1998 she founded Office of Mobile Design. In 2016 she became involved with a company called Wildernests, working as the Chief Design Officer.

Office of Mobile Design
The Office of Mobile Design was founded in 1988, and ever since innovation and atypical thinking have defined the practice as a whole. Based out of Venice, California, the practice revolves around the idea of “portable, demountable, and relocatable structures”, with a breadth of work that ranges from sschools and homes to stores and museum installations. One of the most important aspects of the Office of Mobile Design’s work, is the idea that “any city environment can be made more usable and more dynamic if it can be hitched-up, towed, pulled, or driven from place to place.”

In Siegals words; “For me, mobility is not about erasing everything that exists, but adding to the infrastructure in a more environmentally sound way — a more intelligent way of inhabiting the landscape — resting lightly on the ground.” The Office of Mobile Design has garnered a reputation for both hands-on-research as well as inventive reinterpretations of already radical ideas. A key element of Siegal’s work is the utilization of the industrial vernacular already in place.

Academics
Siegal is actively involved in academics and is currently teaching at the University of Southern California, where she began in 2010[]. She is an active lecturer on Modular, Portable, and Green architecture at schools such as Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rice University, University of Hawaii, SCI-Arc, Tulane, and more. Additionally, she has lectured at the AEC World Expo in Mumbai, India; at a session for the AIA Wisconsin; and at the Boston Society of Architects; among many others. In 2006 she was recognized as the inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow[] at Woodbury University. She was the editor of Mobile: the Art of Portable Architecture, which came out in 2002, and More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today, which came out in 2008. In addition, Siegal was the series editor and founder of Materials Monthly (2005-2006). All of her publications are with Princeton Architectural Press in New York.

Commercial

 * Information Technology Support Building, Fayetteville, AR, 2012


 * KCRW’s Sonic Trace Mobile, Los Angeles, CA, 2012 (Unbuilt)


 * Monterey History and Maritime Museum, Monterey, CA, 2011


 * Kate Mantilini’s Restaurants, Beverly Hills and Woodland Hills, CA, 2003-2005


 * Storehouse, National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now, 2003


 * Haagen-Dazs Pleasure Mobile featured at Guggenheim Museum, Seattle International Film Festival, Seventh on Sixth Fashion Shows at Chicago Art Fair, 2002


 * Mobile Event City Architect (MECA), Los Angeles, CA, 2001 (Unbuilt)


 * PIE.com, Hollywood, CA, 2000


 * ZEVOS Kiosk, Los Angeles, CA, 2000 (Unbuilt)


 * iMobile, Los Angeles, CA, 2000 (Unbuilt)

Residential

 * Wildernests’ Autonomous House, Prototype in Malibu, 2017


 * Prefab Playhouse, Mobile (front yard Venice, CA), 2016


 * Vertical Prefab Siegal Residence, Venice, CA, 2016


 * Siegal Desert House, Desert Hot Springs, CA, 2014


 * Big Sur Prefab, Big Sur, CA, 2010


 * Taliesin Mod.Fab, built by students, Scottsdale, AZ, 2009


 * Camargo Prefab Residence, Encinitas, CA, 2008


 * Lahman Prefab Residence, Venice, CA, 2008


 * Santa Monica Prefab, Santa Monica, CA, 2008


 * Take Home Development, Desert Hot Springs, CA, 2007 (Unbuilt)


 * Pacific Palisades Prefab Residence, Pacific Palisades, CA, 2007


 * Venice Swellhouse, Venice, CA, 2006


 * OMD ShowHouse, Venice, CA, 2006


 * Road Runner, Venice, CA, 2004-07


 * Hydra 21, The Ocean, 2004 (Unbuilt)


 * Seatrain Residence, Los Angeles, CA, 2003


 * ECO-Ville: Artist Live-Work Development, Los Angeles, CA, 2002 (Unbuilt)


 * Hydra House, The Ocean, 2002 (Unbuilt)


 * Wilshire Residence, Los Angeles, CA, 2000


 * Lieber Furniture and Landscape, Beverly Hills, CA, 1999


 * Marfa Compound, Marfa, TX, 1998-99

Educational

 * Sanderling Waldorf School, Encinitas, CA, 2016 (In Progress)


 * First Years Preschool, Venice, CA, 2015


 * The Country School: Middle School, North Hollywood, CA, 2008

Exhibit

 * AERO-Mobile, Google, Los Angeles, CA, 2014


 * To Be Destroyed (TBD), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, 2014


 * Designing for Free Speech, Theatrum Mundi, New York, NY, 2014


 * Truck-A-Tecture, KANEKO cultural institution, Omaha, NE, 2014


 * Container Architektur: NRW-Forum, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2011


 * Memory of the LA Billboard: Telepolis in the Archetype: Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA, 2009


 * Casa per Tutti: Triennale di Milano, Italy, 2008


 * Architectural Utopian: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, 2008


 * Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century: National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 2007


 * Entropy: The Art in Architects: Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA, 2007


 * The Green House, New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design: National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 2006


 * Rebuilding New Orleans: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, 2006


 * Office of Mobile Design: Design Within Reach, Beverly Location, Los Angeles, 2004


 * National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 2003


 * Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2003


 * New Nomadism: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Cambridge, MA, 2002


 * 21 Millennium Models: selected group exhibition at Form Zero Art + Architecture Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, 2000


 * 101 Millennium Models: exhibition at WestWeek 2000, Pacific Design Center, CA, 2000


 * Evolution Through Practice: SCI-Arc Alumni at Work: Southern California Institute of Architecture Front Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2000


 * threads, thresholds, and terrains: Exhibition of SCI-Arc women graduates.                 	         	Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, 1997


 * Radical Reconstruction. The Work of Lebbeus Woods Architecture Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Curator and contractor of exhibition., 1997


 * Unbuilt Architecture Design Awards: Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA, 1996


 * less is more: Built Work for Under $100K: (jointly with Todd Erlandson), Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

Reference Links

 * 1) http://www.designmobile.com/about/
 * 2) http://www.designmobile.com/about/
 * 3) http://www.designmobile.com/about/
 * 4) http://www.designmobile.com/about/
 * 5) https://arch.usc.edu/faculty/siegal
 * 6) http://jsi.architecture.woodbury.edu/education
 * 7) http://www.archiexpo.com/prod/omd-office-mobile-design/product-70398-1088537.html
 * 8) http://www.designmobile.com/work/#/pie/
 * 9) https://www.dwell.com/article/such-great-heights-fe66b0b4
 * 10) https://www.dwell.com/article/such-great-heights-fe66b0b4
 * 11) http://www.designmobile.com/work/#/bigsur/
 * 12) https://www.dwell.com/article/from-the-frank-lloyd-wright-school-taliesin-mod.fab-4791c6c5
 * 13) http://www.designmobile.com/work/#/santa-monica-prefab/
 * 14) http://www.designmobile.com/work/#/pacific-palisades-prefab/
 * 15) http://www.designmobile.com/work/#/road-runner/
 * 16) http://www.designmobile.com/seatrain-residence/nxltxk23w7tyxx2ayoe0qpu4rypgel
 * 17) http://www.designmobile.com/work/#/country-school/
 * 18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8O4qkJrSo
 * 19) http://museumofcontemporaryart.ca/exhibitions/to-be-destroyed/
 * 20) http://designingforfreespeech.org/
 * 21) http://thekaneko.org/kaneko-programs/truck-a-tecture/
 * 22) http://www.aff-architekten.com/story/14/internationales-jugend-und-begegnungszentrum.html
 * 23) http://www.koplindelrio.com/content/memory-la-billboard-telepolis-archetype
 * 24) http://www.nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/Exhibition%20Script_WEB2.pdf
 * 25) http://www.koplindelrio.com/
 * 26) http://nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/GH_Wall_Text_Exh_Script.pdf
 * 27) http://www.dwr.com/
 * 28) https://www.walkerart.org/archive/D/AD73B5FEB80AC7536166.htm
 * 29) http://www.archdaily.com/785225/los-angeles-architect-jennifer-siegal-wins-2016-arcvision-prize
 * 30) http://www.aialosangeles.org/home-page-latest-news/2017-residential-architecture-awards-announced-by-aiala#.WSYBKGjyuUl