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Eva L. Maddox an American commercial interior designer. She has received over 100 awards and commendations over the course of her career. Maddox's early success in the design industry led her to open a design firm, Eva Maddox Associates. Eva Maddox was born (1943) and raised in a small town in the middle of
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, Viola, TN. She affirmed her love for design while attending the
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. She graduated in 1966, with a bachelor's degree, from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. After graduating she worked in Cincinnati, at Space Design, while her husband Lynn Maddox was in graduate school. She moved to
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looking for other design opportunities. Space Design allowed her to create interior designs for any client she was able to find. She moved to
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, IL in 1970 and worked as a project director at Richmond, Manhoff + March, which was then one of the cities largest interior firms. Shortly after she took a position at an architecture firm, Meister & Volpe (1971). In 1992 she was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. In 1994 she cofounded Archeworks with architect Stanley Tigerman. Archeworks is a socially oriented design laboratory and multidisciplinary school. In 2002 she merged with Perkins + Will and became a design principle. On February 1, 2016 Maddox announced that she is retiring from
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. Maddox will continue to work with Perkins+Will on special projects, but will devote most of her time to other pursuits. ref name="Retires 2">
Upon earning her bachelor's degree in 1966, Maddox began her design career in
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. She worked at an architecture firm, Space Design. She then moved to Indiana in attempt to find other design opportunities. While in Indiana Space Design allowed her to produce interior designs for any clients she could find. She moved to
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in 1970, and received a position as project director at Richmond, Manhoff, + March, which at the time was one of the largest interior firms in the city. During this time she wanted to reconnect with an architecture firm, in order to connect the interior design with the architectural structure. This led her to a position at Meister & Volpe in 1971. Due to the large volume of business that Maddox was producing at Meister & Volpe she decided to start her own business. Maddox pioneered the concept of ‘ Branded Environments’. Branded Environments is a research-based design approach that incorporated a client's DNA into the built environment. This approach helps to define how a company presents and represents itself. Eva Maddox Associated was acquired by
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in 2002. Maddox became design principal of the companies new Perkins+Will /Eva Maddox Branded Environments group. Maddox worked as design principal at Perkins+Will until she retired on February 1, 2016. Some of her most successful designs at Perkins+Will include
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(2003), One Haworth Center (2008), and the
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(2009).


Archeworks

Eva Maddox co-founded Archeworks in 1994, along with architect
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Projects


Awards

Eva Maddox awards include Honor Awards from the National
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and IIDA, and numerous Design Excellence Awards for Interior Architecture and Design from the local chapters of the
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, ASID, SEGD and IIDA. Herawards include: * 1992 inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame * 1995
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- One of Chicago’s 100 most influential women * 1999 inducted into the International Interior Design College of Fellows * 2000 IIDA Star Award * 2001
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Chicagoan of the Year * 2002 Dean of Design Award * 2006 honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the
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* 2007, 2008 Purpose Prize Fellow * 2011 Contract magazine's LEGEND Award


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Presenter at Cusp Conference 2009
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