Julie Eizenberg, AIA
Principal in Charge of Architectural Design & Master Planning

Julie Eizenberg is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture. She brings design vision and leadership to the firm’s wide range of projects and is recognized for her expertise involving cities, non-profit agencies, educational institutions, and private developers. Ms. Eizenberg is an astute observer and institutional iconoclast leading investigations that reshape the way we think about the conventional buildings of everyday living. Under her and partner Hank Koning’s lead, the firm has earned more than 70 awards for their projects, including 25 AIA awards and the AIA California Council Firm of the Year Award for 2009. As a result of her design direction, the firm has won two national competitions—Chicago Public School Northside, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which opened in November 2004 to widespread acclaim. Ms. Eizenberg teaches and lectures around the world, is a frequent advisor to the U.S. Mayor’s Institute on City Design and has completed a book titled, Architecture Isn’t Just for Special Occasions.

Kevin Daly, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, Daly Genik Architects

Established in 1990, Daly Genik Architects, is renowned as an architectural practice focused on craft, construction systems, and material research in work that highlights the interrelationship of research and fabrication, material and form, sustainability and livability. They maintain a fundamental belief in the practical magic of architecture, an alchemy at the conjunction of craft, materials, and technology that allows architecture to transform, surprise and inspire. While declining to specialize in specific building types, the work focuses on clients in the public realm, creating communities for education, the arts and dwelling, often by giving a second life to existing buildings through reclamation and reconsideration.
 
Kevin Daly received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California (1980) and his Master of Architecture degree from Rice University (1985). Mr. Daly is the Design Principal-in-Charge for all of the office’s projects including the award-winning Valley Center House, four schools for the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, and the Art Center College of Design South Campus Building. Current projects in the office include a new 120,000 sf Museum at Harvard University, the modernization and expansion of UCLA’s School of Music, and the new Edison Language Academy, an innovative language immersion K-5 school for the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. The firm has received over thirty design awards and been published from Australia to Israel. In 2009 Daly Genik was named the inaugural Firm of the Year by the AIA/LA.

Michael Pinto
Principal, Osborn Architects

Michael Pinto is an architect, educator, and community activist. In practice Michael is Design Principal at Osborn Architects which has received 16 AIA Awards in the past decade. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Woodbury University and has taught at Art Center College of Design. For 10 years, Michael was the director of SCI-Arc’s acclaimed Community Design Program, which engages students in research and construction of socially relevant projects for nonprofit and civic agencies.

In 2008, Michael founded Project Food / LA, a group of educators, chefs, artists, architects, planners, nutritionists, growers, and caring individuals concerned with improving access to healthy food in underserved communities. The organization grew out of Michael’s research on urban infrastructure and food systems. He is a past president of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and currently serves on the Forum’s Advisory Board.

Michael has been published extensively and spoken around the world on issues of design and community. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Penn State University, and a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc.

Lisa Padilla, AIA, LEED AP
Principal at Cityworks Design

Lisa Padilla is Principal at Cityworks Design, a Pasadena practice she founded in 2006 devoted to “urban design, transit integration & community vision”. She has focused on community-based projects founded on principles of transit-oriented development. Her recent design work for L.A. County Metro includes the Exposition Light Rail Transit Corridor (Los Angeles to Santa Monica), South Bay Green Line Extension, and Eastside Access Project in Boyle Heights. She has authored development standards for the City of Long Beach, co-authored the “Guide for a Livable Downtown (Los Angeles)”, and was design principal for the “Transbay Neighborhood Open Space and Streetscape Plan” in San Francisco. Lisa was responsible for leading the redesign of Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, and setting design criteria for introducing light rail transit on Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica. She has served as a juror for the AIA National Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design, and National Peer Reviewer for GSA’s Design Excellence Program.

Scott D. Baker, ASLA
Principal – Landscape Architecture

As a Principal with Meléndrez, Scott Baker manages and directs a broad range of project types, providing oversight and leadership to the firm’s professional staff. Scott’s top priority is dealing directly with clients to thoroughly understand their needs and ensure their project is ultimately user focused and transformative. His extensive knowledge stems from sixteen years of working at the intersection of residential, civic, transportation, commercial and academic districts within the urban context. Recent projects include, Vdara Condo Hotel at MGM CityCenter Las Vegas, Pao Huei Condo Towers in Taiwan, USC Health Sciences Campus Landscape Master Plan, award-winning LAPD Police Administration Building in downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica College Campus Quad. As a passionate participant in the Landscape Architecture profession, Scott continues to raise the bar on the quality of the firm’s work, living the firm’s mission to have a transformative impact on the urban environment.