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Koning Eizenberg Architecture, AIA California Council 2009 Firm of the Year, was established in 1981 by Hank Koning

FAIA, FRAIA, LEED AP, and Julie Eizenberg, AIA, with Brian Lane, AIA, LEED AP assuming a managing principal role in 2003.

Informed by a long-standing commitment to sustainable architecture and interest in strategic construction innovation, the

firm has set new benchmarks for a range of building types from schools and museums to community places. We appeal to

clients, agencies, and institutions interested in exploring and rethinking opportunities rather than accepting the status

quo. Today, Koning Eizenberg Architecture is well known, with over 70 design awards, extensive publication, international

exhibitions (including the Venice Biennale) and individual recognition of the principals. The principals leverage this cred-

ibility to influence policy, as well as to craft buildings that, by example, raise expectations for design in the public realm.

For more information about the firm and its achievements please visit our web site at www.kearch.com.

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KoningEizenbergArchitecture

Meet the PrincipalsJulie Eizenberg, AIAPrincipal in Charge of Architectural Design & Master Planning

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 involving cities, non-profit agen-

cies, 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 recently completed a book titled, Architecture Isn’t Just for Special Occasions.

John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, CA

Wildwood School, Los Angeles, CA

Children’s Institute, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Temple Israel of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

Santa Monica Village, Santa Monica, CA

Hancock Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA

Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica, CA

Virginia Avenue Park Expansion, Santa Monica, CA

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

The Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA

Farmers Market Expansion, Los Angeles, CA

Licensed Architect, California, 1994 #25016

Registered Architect, Victoria Australia, 1979

1981 / Master of Architecture II—University of California Los Angeles

1978 / Bachelor of Architecture—University of Melbourne, Australia

Fall 2010 / Visiting Professor and Lecturer: Washington University in St. Louis

June 2010 / Visiting Lecturer: Hangzhou China

June 2010 / Visiting Lecturer: Nanjing China

March 2010 / Lecturer: Iowa State University, Department of Architecture

November 2009 / Lecturer: Tulane University

Fall 2008 / Distinguished Lecturer: University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning

Fall 2008, 2003, 2002 / Lecturer: SCIARC

Fall 2005, Spring 2007 / Visiting Critic: Syracuse University School of Architecture

2005 / Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor of Architecture: University of Virginia School of Architecture

2005 / Meid Mentor Scholar-in-Residence: Marymount College

Spring 2004, 1999 / Bishop Visiting Professor: Yale School of Architecture

2003 to present / Professional Fellow: University of Melbourne Dept of Architecture, Building & Planning

Spring 2002, Fall 1994 / Harvard Graduate School of Design

Selected Projects

Selected Lectures & Teaching Experience

Education

License

Hank Koning, FAIA, FRAIA, LEED® APPrincipal in Charge of Technical, Regulatory & Administrative Issues

Hank Koning is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, established in Santa Monica in 1981. His vision and

creative thinking have driven the firm’s approach to large-scale and urban design projects as well as the technicalities of

smaller projects. He brings thorough material, sustainability, constructability, cost and code knowledge to building and

site designs that evolve into sensible and practical solutions which are, at the same time, extraordinary. Under his and

partner Julie Eizenberg’s lead, the firm has earned more than 70 awards for their projects, including 25 AIA awards, and

was named the 2004 Residential Architect Firm of the Year. In 1992, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian

Institute of Architects and, in 1995, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. A member of the U.S. Green

Building Council, Mr. Koning continues to lead the effort in integrating sustainable design ideas into quality design for

healthy, environmentally-friendly buildings. His community involvement and planning expertise have been acknowledged

in his appointment to the Santa Monica Planning Commission, charged with shaping the future development of the city.

John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, CA

John Adams/Santa Monica College Joint-Use Green Fringe, Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica Village, 160-unit housing, Santa Monica, CA

Hancock Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA

Century Building, Pittsburgh, PA


Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Standard Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA

Oakwood School Masterplan and Expansion, North Hollywood, CA

5 Recreational Facilities for the City of Los Angeles, CA

Simone Hotel (SRO), Los Angeles, CA

Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Chateau Marmont, Hollywood, CA

2010 / Licensed Architect, New Mexico

1982 / Licensed Architect, California, #C13530

1979 / Registered Architect, Victoria Australia

NCARB Certificate holder

LEED Accredited Professional

1981 / Master of Architecture II - University of California Los Angeles

1978 / Bachelor of Architecture - University of Melbourne, Australia

Spring 1999 / Bishop Visiting Professor: Yale School of Architecture

Fall 1994 / Graduate School of Design, Harvard

November 1994 / Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

Lecturer: Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Planning,

1981, 1982, 1986, 1988 / University of California Los Angeles

Selected Projects

Selected Lectures and Teaching Experience

License

Education


Brian Lane, AIA, LEED® APManaging Principal

Brian Lane is a Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture and has overseen many of the firm’s award-winning community

buildings and housing projects. His experience spans a range of project types for governmental, commercial, non-profit

and private clients. Mr. Lane has led much of Koning Eizenberg’s recent affordable housing work and contributes techni-

cal knowledge and design experience in the production of multi-unit affordable and market-rate housing – family, lofts,

special needs and mixed-use. His visualization and graphics skills, combined with his planning knowledge, have enabled

numerous cities and agencies to evaluate planning and urban design strategies. Recently, he has contributed to the dia-

logue on emerging ordinances that will aid housing production in Los Angeles and is frequently called upon to share his

expertise in community forums and public programs.

Oakwood School, North Hollywood, CA

Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica, CA

Children’s Institute, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

28th Street Community Center and Affordable Housing

Trio of Gymnasiums, Pecan, Van Ness & Green Meadows, Los Angeles, CA

Kings Road Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA

Hollywood Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Abbey Apartments, Los Angeles CA

Waterloo Housing, Los Angeles, CA

Harold Way Apartments, Los Angeles, CA

Santa Monica/LaBrea Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, CA

Plummer Park Community Center, West Hollywood, CA


Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA

1989 / Licensed Architect, California #C20717

1990 / Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

1986 / Bachelor of Architecture, Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo

National Professional Practice Roundtable member

2007 / MOBIUS LA Affordable Housing Panel member

2007 / City of Los Angeles Housing Element Update Task Force, Co-Chair Sustainability Committee

2007 – present / Hollywoodland Design Review Board member

2006 / LA Mayor’s Housing Innovations Roundtable Steering Committee

2006 / Dwell on Design, speaker and panel member, “Affordability and the City”

2005 / Think Locally, Think Creatively, SCANPH panel on new housing ordinances in Southern California

2005 / City Works – Communities Under Construction, and Subdivide and Multiply, jury and panel

2005 / City of West Hollywood Mixed-Use Ordinance Task Force

2003, 2004 / City of Los Angeles RAS zone and Townhouse Ordinance Task Force

2005-2009 / USC School of Architecture critic

Selected Projects

Affiliations and Forums

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Education

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Program

Client

Completion

Austin Children’s Museum

The Austin Children’s Museum values children’s questions, thirst

for knowledge, and love for learning as the basis for a creative,

inventive, competent, contributing, and scientifically literate soci-

ety. The new 35,000 sq. ft. facility will stand 50% larger than their

current location. The design focuses on maintaining the Museum’s

values while accommodating interior and exterior exhibits, court-

yards, and other public spaces. The building provides a commu-

nity based “cornerstone” to the large new Mueller neighborhood

context.

Austin, TX

35,000 sq. f t.

Austin Children’s Museum

Expected 2012

City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Pittsburgh, PA

80,000 sq. f t. expansion and remodel

Museum

2005

2007 Rudy Bruner Gold Metal Award2006 AIA National Honor Award2006 AIA California Council Honor Award2006 AIA Los Angeles Honor Award2006 AIA Pittsburgh Honor Award & Green Design Citation2006 ID Design Distinction Award2005 MBA Building Excellence Award: Best Project over $5m2005 AISC IDEAS Merit Award, Cool Space Award2005 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award

The Museum and its exhibits provide an interactive experience

designed to appeal to all ages. A new entry and exhibition space

connect a national register 1890s post off ice with a 1939 plan-

etarium, highlighting the two historic stone landmarks with a con-

trasting steel and glass-framed space, wrapped in an ”articulated

cloud” of translucent 5” hinged plastic flaps that move in the wind.

When completed, the Museum was the largest Silver LEED museum

in the country, featuring adaptive reuse, recycled materials, and

passive shading.

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

City

Program

Client

Completion

Established in 1946, Temple Israel is located in a dense Hollywood

neighborhood. Anchored by a historically significant sanctuary,

the new masterplan proposes to invigorate the campus with

94,500 sq. ft. of new buildings, including a chapel in-the-round,

a library, expanded elementary and pre-schools, a teen center, a

social justice center, expanded offices, and underground park-

ing. Various construction phasing strategies have been studied

and evaluated in order to minimize disruption to the existing and

operational pre-school and congregation.

Temple Israel of Hollywood

Hollywood, CA

94,500 sq. f t. mixed use masterplan and phased development

T.I.O.H.

Phase I completed, phase II is underway

City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

This expanded and renovated park has helped to unify an ethnically-

diverse neighborhood. Renovated warehouses and a refreshed

1960s community building introduce progressive ideas about form

and ornament while providing spaces for children, teens, families,

and seniors. Facilities include art rooms, movement spaces, a com-

puter lab as well as fields, basketball courts, play equipment, and

an interactive fountain outside. Virginia Avenue Park was the first

park to be certified LEED silver in the country as achieved by onsite

water management, adaptive reuse of buildings, daylighting, and

sustainable materials.

Virginia AvenuePark Expansion

Santa Monica, CA

A significantly renovated and expanded 9 acre park including 25,000 sq. f t of improvements

City of Santa Monica

2005

2007 LA Buisness Council Architectural Award, Landscape Architecture2007 Westside Prize Urban Solutions/Built, Westside Urban Forum2006 Municipal Award of Merit, US Green Building Council

City

Program

Client

Completion

This 47,000 sq. ft. project entails the adaptive reuse and creative

rehabilitation of two light-industrial warehouse buildings in a

gritty inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood. On a tight budget,

the design deinstitutionalizes the sensitive social functions of the

organization, through a combination of innovative organizational

planning and the limited insertion of simple (but creative) new

architectural systems within the renovated existing building

shell. The program includes a preschool, individual therapy rooms,

administrative offices, and large multipurpose spaces for commu-

nity programs. The completed project will provide much needed

community and family services to this high-risk neighborhood and

will serve as the regional operational headquarters for this rapidly

growing non-profit organization.

Children’s Institute Inc.

Los Angeles, CA

47,000 sq. f t. community spaces

Children’s Institute, Inc.

April 2011

City

Program

Owner

Completion

Awards

Part of the larger original historical Farmers Market site, this stand-

alone, three story mixed-use building (lower) incorporates ground

level retail over an underground parking garage capped by two

floors of offices. Designated as a city cultural site, the Market was

more significant as a site of experience than the architecture—a

collection of small vendors housed in an ad-hoc farmyard style. In

1998, plans to build an adjacent shopping center – The Grove – set

in motion a complementary master plan for the Market. Centered

on reviving and enhancing the historic property, the plan also

facilitated pedestrian traffic between the two developments, while

providing easy surface parking tor market patrons.

Los Angeles Farmers Market: North Market

Los Angeles, CA

90,000 sq. f t. new construction

A.F. Gilmore Co

2002

2003 Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence2004 Los Angeles Business Council Architecture Award

City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

The historic 68,000 sq. ft. (12-story) Century Building in down-

town Pittsburgh was built in 1907. This expected LEED gold, adap-

tive reuse project now houses 61 units of mixed income housing

(40% affordable) offering raised platform studios to two bedroom

loft units. Amenities include a rooftop patio as well as a commu-

nity room and gym on the 3rd floor. The ground level restaurant

remains and floors 2 and 3 were gutted and renovated for office

use. A Commuter Bicycle Center located on the North easement

provides residents, and the public, secure bicycle storage and

animates the street.

Bike Center

Pittsburgh, PA

61 units, 6,000 sq. f t. commercial space

TREK Development Group

2010

2010 AIA Pittsburgh Preservation Award2010 Pennsylvania Commonwealth Award2010 AIACC Award

City

Program

Client

Completion

The Oakwood Elementary School playspace comprises a 6,650 sq.

ft. gym and 2,570 sq. ft. multi-purpose space with three potential

stage areas for various performance and rehearsal needs. Vertical

lift doors open the multi-purpose space to the outside. While on

the inside, a Skyfold door suspended from the ceiling between

the building’s two principal spaces allows for acoustical and visual

separation. Support spaces include offices, bathrooms, kitchen-

pantry, and basement level storage. The building incorporates

many sustainable features, notably a geothermal water source

heat pump system. Polycarbonate exterior panels maximize day

lighting and sustainable finishes and ventilation ensure a healthy

indoor environment.

Los Angeles, CA

12,000 sq. f t. performing arts/gymnasium facility

Oakwood Elementary School

2007

OakwoodElementary School:Playspace

Adaptive Re-Use

Century Building Pittsburgh PA

Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA

The Standard Hotel Downtown Los Angeles CA

Planning

The Village Santa Monica CA

Urban Intervention Competition Seattle WA

Historic Farmers Market Los Angeles CA

Housing

Hancock Lofts West Hollywood CA

Takeout House Pasadena CA

Duane Apartment New York, NY

Related Projects


Education

Wildwood Elementary Los Angeles CA

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA

PS1 Elementary Santa Monica CA

Culture/Civic

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA

Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA

Virginia Avenue Park Santa Monica CA

Commercial

Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel Hollywood CA

Thornton Tomasetti Office Los Angeles CA

Gilmore Bank Los Angeles CA

Pittsburgh Magazine, November 2004

By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

At the renovated Children's Museum, the building is the biggest exhibit of all

Sunday, October 31, 2004

In Maira Kalman's children's book "Max Makes a Million," Max the dog, an unpublished poet and canine-about-town, has a secure life with a childless, older couple but dreams of living in Paris.

"There is an old Chinese proverb that says parents must give their children two things, roots and wings," Max says. "I have the roots. Now I want the wings." After he strikes it rich in the poetry biz, Max is able to fulfill his dream.

Architects Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning remembered reading the story to their sons, Jak and Rem, now teens, when they were small. For the couple, "roots and wings" seemed just the right metaphor for their design of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's expansion and its mission.

The Children's Museum was rooted in the past -- the old Allegheny Post Office building of 1897, which it had outgrown. It planned to expand into another historic structure, the former Buhl Planetarium, completed in 1939 and vacant since 1991. To link these Classical and Moderne buildings, Koning Eizenberg Architects of Santa Monica, Calif., proposed a glass lantern for their winning entry in the museum's design competition of 2000. The new wing also would be a metaphorical wing that would take children to new experiences and expand their worlds.

The lantern's folded planes gave it the look of a giant rice paper lamp, which the museum said would be a

Alyssa Cwanger

"Articulated Cloud" is the name of the wind sculpture that surrounds the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's new building, which links the existing museum to the former Buhl Planetarium. The project more than triples the museum's indoor space.Click photo for larger image.

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beacon and "night light," symbolizing care for children. But practicality soon reared its head.

"The Children's Museum was the first building we've done where Hank had no clue how we were going to build it," Eizenberg said at a talk to Carnegie Mellon University architecture students a few weeks ago.

As it turned out, that lantern proved too expensive to build. Its basic idea, however -- linking the two historic buildings with a contemporary glass box -- was not only sound, but the simplest of all the solutions, and one that had minimal impact on the historic buildings.

Around the same time, California-based sculptor Ned Kahn, who'd been commissioned to create an outdoor water sculpture for the museum, nixed that idea because Pittsburgh winters are too cold for it to operate year-round. Thus was born a collaboration between Kahn and the architects that generated a different kind of lantern, one whose glass walls are shielded from the sun by about 43,000 thin, translucent plastic flaps, each 5 1/2 inches square.

When the wind ripples across the flaps, it creates waves of motion that look like clouds floating across the sky -- a subtle, sophisticated effect that, rather than talking down to children, speaks to the child in all of us.

The piece, called "Articulated Cloud," allows the building to achieve a synthesis of art and architecture, one that is a playful, mysterious and inventive expression of green design. The flaps hang on stainless steel rods attached to a boldly graphic aluminum frame that is visible from within the new building's second- and third-floor exhibits. They act as sunscreens that will keep the glass from overheating.

"Articulated Cloud" is one of the $22.5 million expansion's many green features that will have the building itself functioning as its largest exhibit for

children.

"The architecture is as much about experience as knowledge and object," Eizenberg said in an e-mail. "We did want to highlight the beauty of the old buildings as well as add the kinds of spaces that you couldn't make then but can now. We wanted to show how things are made and demonstrate environmentally sustainable strategies."

It will be the first children's museum to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

The museum's staff and board decided early on that the expansion would be a green design. Its first year of planning was funded in part by the Heinz Endowments, the foundation leader in green design in Western Pennsylvania. Green features that would earn LEED certification were a requirement of the design competition, funded by the National Endowment for the

The Real Deal: Museum promises hands-on fun with "stuff"

Alyssa Cwanger, Post-Gazette

A decorative cow by artist Burton Morris stands guard on the second floor, looking out to the stairway leading to the Children's Museum's entrance. The "Articulated Cloud" wall on the exterior of the building is in view from this vantage point.Click photo for larger image.



Arts.

"It's a natural extension of our mission, and it goes to best practices," said architect Chris Siefert, the museum's project manager. "We are establishing a national model for children's museums."

The museum will draw all of its energy from renewable resources, purchasing wind and hydroelectric power from a green energy company and generating solar power with its own photovoltaic collector panels on the roof of the Buhl wing.

The museum's education department is working with Pittsburgh's Green Building Alliance to develop interpretive programs for children about the building's green features. One of its principles -- water conservation -- can be demonstrated at the touch of a button: the dual-flush toilets that allow users to choose between a big flush and a little flush.

The wall that encloses the museum's outdoor play area is made of wire-wrapped, rec-tangular bundles of masonry building materials, from bricks to balusters, recycled from this and other building projects. It recalls, on a small scale, Alexandr Brodsky's elegiac "Palazzo Nudo" installation Downtown at Seventh Street and Penn Avenue, gone but not forgotten.

With the expansion, built by Mascaro Construction Co., the museum more than triples its indoor space, from 19,000 to 74,000 square feet. The public and exhibit areas will grow from about 11,000 to approximately 40,000 square feet.

The new building, erected over a now-closed portion of Allegheny Square West street, is the museum's new main entrance. Its first floor is a gathering place where visitors will begin to make choices about what to experience first.

They can turn left into the old Post Office building, whose first floor houses the art studio. They can head directly upstairs and visit the Mister Rogers, Waterplay and other exhibits. Or they can turn right, into the Buhl's formerly windowless grand hall, now a cafe illuminated by a new floor-to-ceiling window. Giant, inflatable sculptures designed by Tim Kaulen and powered by the rooftop solar collectors are expected to be installed this week.

Eizenberg, who saw something similar used to light a path from parking to a jazz concert held in a Hollywood cemetery, said she used them to bring down the vast scale of the room.


The Garage Workshop exhibit comes together as the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh prepares for its grand re-opening Saturday after a multimillion-dollar expansion project. This space, originally part of the planetarium, includes this new sculpture by Henry Loustau, who was working on it last week.Click photo for larger image.



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 2004


The museum commissioned 12 artists to produce playful work for the expansion, almost all of it interactive. One of the most prominent, installed in the Buhl's former planetarium dome, is Henry Loustau's ball maze, in which children can launch kickball-sized plastic balls onto wires and follow their descending path.

The Buhl basement has become the children's cafeteria for school groups, and its lower level, where for decades the Christmas train display was housed, now holds a theater and a radio studio, from which the Saturday Light Brigade will broadcast from 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday mornings on WRCT (88.3 FM). Show host Larry Berger is developing programs to use the studio throughout the week, some involving the museum's education department and its on-site and

other partners.

One of museum director Jane Werner's big ideas for the expansion was to create a campus of organizations devoted to child advocacy. The museum, Siefert said, will function like a town square, a gathering place where visitors and organizations will come together for experiences and discourse about children, families and the community.

The Buhl's upper floors will house the Reading is FUNdamental program and Childwatch Pittsburgh, which focuses on at-risk children. In February, two model, daylong preschool programs with art-based curricula are scheduled to open, run by the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh Learning, Research and Development Center also will be housed there and will track a group of children over time.

The Buhl building's new window provides a view of the venerable Allegheny branch of Carnegie Library, another feature of the children's campus.

Max, dog poet and big dreamer, would approve.

(PG architecture critic Patricia Lowry can be reached at or 412-263-1590.)

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A Classical frieze at the roofline of the Buhl building is now visible inside the new building. In the background, Vickie Watson, Children's Museum project assistant, walks through the Waterplay exhibit.Click photo for larger image.



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