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Virginia Tanzmann
Virginia was born in New York City and moved to Los Angeles after she took a long road trip around the country and fell in love with the “special qualities” of Los Angeles. In 1969, she graduated from Syracuse University where she “was in a six-year dual degree program earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture”. She founded her own architectural practice, Tanzmann Associates, after she was the district architect for the regional transportation agency. She also joined Parsons Brinkerhoff and became the Vice President after advancing her expertise in architecture, and while she was there, she led the West Region Technical Excellence Center for Architecture and Buildings. Starting in 1987, she served as the President of the Association of Women in Architecture and then served as president one more year.

Career
She specializes in public transportation mainly in Los Angeles. She is known to have an “ability to apply clear thinking in an organized way to complex projects with many factors to bring about successful results” that made her desirable for new projects. Even though she has had great accomplishments with large transportation projects, she also involvement with “civic projects, seismic repairs, public school and California University bond-funded projects, Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility, medical facilities, affordable and specialized housing, and retail and restaurant design.” She shows an enduring, well established, and an extensive amount of dedication to equity in design and in the workplace as well as to modern and integrated design practices.

Famous Projects
The North Hollywood Station is one of her most famous projects that was done with her husband, Carlton Davis, first built in 2000. This structure is both a “subway station and a bus rapid transit station located in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system.” Her and her husband’s goal while designing the North Hollywood Station, was to produce a structure that looked nothing like any other subway station in the world and that created a “California Dream” theme that was “unique”, “artistic”, and “futuristic” yet simple. Their intention for this station was to mirror the community at the same time as leave an impact on the city while keeping the cost under sixty-eight million dollars. In order to accomplish their goals they studied the community area around North Hollywood by “talking to residents, shopping, and eating in storefront business”, and what they found was that the area is diverse in its own way, filled “with all ages, backgrounds, races and social classes."

The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, also known as ARTIC, opened in 2014 and is another one of her most famous projects. This building is sixty-seven thousand square feet costing one hundred and thirty-five million dollars, and it allows access for ten thousand daily riders with services including shuttles, bikes, taxis, and buses. It also allows people to travel easily between transit services. The building is known to be a “transportation gateway” to many desired destinations in Anaheim, California, and it also “provides connections to freeways and major arterial roadways."