Julie Eizenberg

Julie Eizenberg is a founding principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, established in 1981. She brings design vision and leadership to the firm’s wide range of projects and is recognized for her expertise in guiding consensus-building, community-based projects involving cities, non-profit agencies, educational institutions and private developers. Her belief that design excellence can be achieved in restricted-budget and socially-oriented projects has been a driving force in the firm, and the success of these projects has helped refocus architects’ attention on these issues. Under her lead, along with partner Hank Koning, the firm has earned numerous awards for its work and was named the 2004 Residential Architect Firm of the Year. In recent years, as a result of her design direction, the firm has won two national competitions – Chicago Public School Northside, and the widely acclaimed Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, winner of a 2006 National AIA Honor Award. Recent projects include the Standard Hotel/Downtown Los Angeles, Herb Alpert Educational Village, the Los Angeles Farmers Market master plan, renovation and expansion, Virginia Avenue Park in Santa Monica, and a number of affordable, market-rate and mixed-use housing projects. She teaches and lectures extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, and receives frequent invitations to serve on award juries. A Peer Reviewer for the GSA Design Excellence program, she is also a frequent U.S. Mayors' Institute of City Design advisor. She is the author of the new firm monograph, Architecture Isn’t Just for Special Occasions: Koning Eizenberg Architecture (Monacelli Press 2006). Ms. Eizenberg is licensed as an architect in California and Australia and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles.