Lisa Iwamoto

Lisa Iwamoto is an American designer, educator, and author. She is a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where she chairs the Department of Architecture and holds the David K. Woo Chair in Environmental Design.^[1] She is the author of Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, published in 2013 by the Princeton Architectural Press.^[2]

Education and career

Iwamoto graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.^[3]

In 2002, she cofounded IwamotoScott Architecture, an architecture firm in San Francisco, with Craig Scott that was "conceived initially as an academic practice".^[4]

In 2021, Iwamoto was appointed as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.^[3]

Recognition

In 2018, she was named as one of five winners of the fifth annual Women in Architecture awards by Architectural Record.^[5]