Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp

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Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp (born 1943 in Bremerhaven as Sigrid Lorenzen ; died 27. May 2004 in Palo Alto ) was a German-American architect . She ran the SLR Architects office in Palo Alto.

Life

Sigrid Lorenzen was born in Bremerhaven in 1943. In 1953, the family emigrated to Oakland , California. As a child, she experienced the building boom in post-war Germany and began to be interested in architecture. She studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley with Joseph Esherick, Harold Stump and Donald Reayund. After graduating in 1966, she worked for several companies in the Bay Area . In 1976 Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp founded her own architectural office, SLR Architects , which she headed until 1989. She was a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and director of the AIA Santa Clara section in California.

She was committed to women's rights and was a member of the Organization of Women Architects (OWA), the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes (UIFA) and chairwoman of California Women in Environmental Design (CWED).

She was married to Steven Rupp. She died in May 2004 of stomach cancer that had been diagnosed six months earlier.

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Her main focus was on designs for companies in Silicon Valley , including Amdahl Corporation , Apple Computer , Claris , IBM , Sun Microsystems and Tandem Computers . Other major projects include the Press Building and Storey House at Stanford University, and the restoration and modernization of Raychem Corporation . In addition, she designed numerous retail stores, offices and private homes as well as modernizations and conversions of older buildings.

Awards

Rupp's design for a test system for Apple won an honorary award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Since 2012 UC Berkeley has been awarding the Berkeley Rupp Prize , which it initiated and named after Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, to promote women in architecture and for work that is characterized by particular sustainability and social commitment. The prize is awarded every two years. It is endowed with one hundred thousand US dollars and has the option of being a semester professor at the College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley.

Her estate has been included in the International Archive of Women in Architecture .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sigrid Rupp at Berkeley University . Retrieved December 3, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Tyche Hendric: Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp - Peninsula architect . 11 June 2014. . Retrieved December 5, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ A Guide to the California Women in Environmental Design Records, 1990-1994: # Ms1990-059. In: ead.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Obituary by Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp on Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals July / August 2004. Retrieved October 26, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ Picture gallery of their buildings. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  6. ^ Berkley Rupp Prize . Retrieved December 5, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Lorenzen Rupp, Sigrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenzen, Sigrid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2004
Place of death Palo Alto