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ABOUT JENNIFER
Jennifer Siegal is known for her work in creating the mobile home of the twentieth century. She is founder and principal of the Los Angeles' based firm Office of Mobile Design (OMD), which is dedicated to the design and construction of modern, sustainable and precision-built structures.
She earned a master's degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1994 and was a 2003 Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where she explored the use of intelligent, kinetic, and lightweight materials. In 1997 she was in-residence at the Chinati Foundation and in 2004 a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in her hometown, Peterborough, New Hampshire. Presently she is the inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow at Woodbury University, the editor of both Mobile: the Art of Portable Architecture (2002), More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today (2008), and was formerly the founder and series editor of Materials Monthly (2005-6), all published by Princeton Architectural Press. A monograph on Jennifer Siegal was published in 2005.
Her innovative design sensibilities and expertise in futuristic concepts, prefabricated construction, and green building technologies were recognized by the popular media in 2003 when Esquire named her one of the design world's "Best and Brightest" and the Architectural League of New York included her in the acclaimed Emerging Voices program. She was featured in Fast Company's "Masters of Design" for her exceptional approach to utilizing new material and forms to create architecture. She was honored when mayor Antonio Viaragosa presented her with the History Channel's 2006 Infiniti Design Excellence Award for her competition entry for the Los Angeles City of the Future 2106. Her most recent built project The Country School, the first green prefab school, was recognized as one of the five best buildings in Los Angeles in 2007.
To learn more about Jennifer and the Office of Mobile Design, go to designmobile.com
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