Galia Solomonoff


Galia Solomonoff AIA is an Argentinian-born architect and the founding creative director of New York-based architecture and design firm Solomonoff Architecture Studio. Her notable projects include ; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

Biography

Born in Rosario, Argentina, Solomonoff received her Masters in Architecture from Columbia University, where she was awarded the McKim Prize for Excellence in Design and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, and her BA from City College, where she was named Best Student of the School of Architecture in 1990. Prior to founding SAS, Solomonoff worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Rafael Viñoly, and Bernard Tschumi Architects, as well as OpenOffice, which she co-founded. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, The Cooper Union, Yale University, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Solomonoff is the recipient of two AIA Design Awards, grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and recognition in the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices series. She has been featured in the New York Times, New York Magazine's premiere issue of editor Wendy Goodman's stand-alone Design Hunting, More Magazine, and Designers & Books. In 2007, New York named her part of New York's "next garde".

Selected Projects