Grace La

Grace La is Professor of Architecture, Chair of the Practice Platform, and former Director of the GSD’s Master of Architecture Programs. She is also Principal of LA DALLMAN Architects, internationally recognized for the integration of architecture, engineering and landscape.

Previously, La served as a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM, receiving tenure in 2005. She served as the Chair of the Planning and Coordinating Committee, where she led efforts in the department’s strategic planning, curriculum reform and hiring initiatives. La also served as a Design Critic in Architecture at the GSD (2010) and a Visiting Critic at Syracuse University (2011). She has delivered lectures at prestigious universities and cultural institutions including the New Museum in New York City, the National Building Museum in Washington DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

La’s teaching, research and prototype design work were funded by KI, exhibited at Discovery World, and featured in the annual Metropolis Conference at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (2010). Demonstrating a unique ability to link the profession and the academy, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has bestowed La with four Faculty Design Awards, which honor outstanding projects that advance the reflective nature of practice and teaching. Additionally, she has received numerous teaching awards including the 2005 UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. La is a member of the United States General Services Administration (GSA) National Registry of Peer Professionals (class of 2010), which is comprised of the nation’s most distinguished private sector leaders in art, design, engineering and construction. She has also served as an adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Arts, the US Artists Fellowship and several AIA Design Awards Programs.

Grace La received her professional MArch with thesis distinction from the GSD, winning the Clifford Wong Housing Prize. She graduated with an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in Visual and Environmental Studies.

Companies

• Professor of Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013)
• Principal LA DALLMAN ARCHITECTS (1999)
• Professor & Associate Professor University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (1999 — 2013)
• 2010 Design Critic in Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2010 — 2011)
• Associate Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architeccts (1996 — 1999)
• Architecture Design Jonathan Levi Architects (1995 — 1996)

Education

• M.Arch Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1992 — 1995)
• A.B. Harvard College (1989 — 1995)
• Phillips Academy (1985 — 1988)