Grace La (United States, 1970; Korean: 나은영; Korean pronunciation: Na Eun Young) is a
first generation,
Korean-American designer, Professor of Architecture at the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), and Principal of LA DALLMAN. Co-founded with James Dallman, LA DALLMAN is a
design
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firm recognized for the multidisciplinary integration of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape, with offices in
Boston
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,
MA and
Milwaukee
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,
WI. La is the Chair of the
Harvard GSD's Practice Platform and served as GSD's Director of the
Master of Architecture
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Programs (2014–17).
Early life and education
La was raised in the
New England
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area and studied at
Phillips Academy
("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness
, address = 180 Main Street
, city = Andover
, state = Ma ...
in
Andover
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* Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Ando ...
,
MA. As a boarding student, she studied
visual arts
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in the Andover curriculum pioneered by Gordon "Diz" Bensley
and was awarded the ''Pamela Wiedenman Memorial Prize in Art''. At Andover, she also participated in the ''Dakar Project'' involving the renovation of an elementary school on
Goree Island in
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
,
West Africa
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, which was formative to her later pursuit of architecture. She joined the Andover Exeter Washington Intern Program, in which she interned for Congressman
Gerry Studds
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of
.
La received her
professional degree
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of
Master of Architecture
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from
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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; her
thesis
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was granted the honor of distinction and her project won the ''Clifford Wong Housing Prize''. In college, she was a recipient of the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award and th
John Harvard Scholarship(reserved for the top 5% of students based on GPA), graduating A.B.
magna cum laude
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from
Harvard College
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in Visual and Environmental Studies.
Family
La
[The surname of “Na” was transliterated to “La” upon ]immigration
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to the U.S.
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in the 1950s; all members of the Na family residing in the U.S.
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use the surname “La.” However, the surname of Na is actively in use in South Korea
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by all members of the family residing there. is the granddaughter of Na Duk Whan,
[Na Duk Whan was a distinguished ]theologian
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, intellectual
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, and South Korean Presbyterian minister
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, who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly
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of the Korean Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK) was a Protestant denomination based in South Korea; it is currently separated into many branches.
History
The first Korean Presbyterian church was founded by Seo Sang-ryun in Hwanghae province in 1884. Shor ...
in 1961. Na Duk Whan was exhumed from his original interment site and re-buried in the Daejeon National Cemetery
The Daejeon National Cemetery () is located in Hyeonchungwon-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. It is South Korea's second national cemetery after the Seoul National Cemetery and is overseen by the Ministry of Patriots' and Veterans' Affair ...
of Korea as a national honoree in 1991. a
South Korea
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n leader recognized for his role in the resistance to the
Japanese occupation of Korea
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, for which he was twice imprisoned in 1921 and 1940,
[As a proponent of religious and cultural freedom and for his resistance to the Japanese occupation of South Korea, Na Duk Whan was imprisoned twice, for 6 months in 1921 and for four years from 1940-1944.] and for his charitable acts as memorialized in the book, ''A Beautiful Heritage of Faith''.
[''A Beautiful Heritage of Faith''(2012) by Na Key Yound outlines his founding of the First Presbyterian Church in Suncheon and his notable charitable acts, including his personal sacrifices for the independence of Korea.] La's design work for
non-profit
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and mission based entities is rooted in the deep appreciation for service and
civic engagement
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, which were instilled in her from her grandfather.
As noted in La's 2014
One Harvard address, La is the middle of three siblings, all educated at
Harvard University
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. La's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Jea Min La of Long Island, NY, were scholars who
immigrated
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to the
United States
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in the 1950s. La is the younger sister of Elinor L. Hoover (
Harvard Business School
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, ‘94), Global Co-Head of Consumer Products and
Vice Chairman
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of Capital Markets Origination at
Citigroup
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.
[In 2014, 2015, and 2016, Hoover was named one of the ''25 Most Powerful Women in Finance'' (]American Banker
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). Hoover is Chairman of the Board of Directors
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of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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. La is the older sister of Daniel La, an
organic chemist
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who is a Senior Director at Fog Pharma and a former
Postdoctoral Fellow
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of the renowned
David Evans Lab at
Harvard University
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.
Career
Grace La is
Principal of LA DALLMAN, co-founded with James Dallman in 1999. Since 2013, she is the
Professor
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of
Architecture
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at the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). She also served as Director of the GSD's
Master of Architecture Programs in 2014–17.
La is the Chair of the GSD's Practice Platform (2014–present), an interdisciplinary committee focused on issues of contemporary and future design practice. Prior to these academic positions, she was a
tenured faculty member at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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School of Architecture & Urban Planning, holding the positions of Professor (2013), Associate Professor (2005-13) and Assistant Professor (1999-2005). She held visiting appointments at the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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(2010) and
Syracuse University
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.
LA DALLMAN, her practice with partner James Dallman, is engaged in the transformation of site through spatial and material investigations ranging in type and scale. Noted for their unusual ability in the design and execution of complex projects by
the Architectural Record
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, the firm has received numerous professional honors and exhibited and published widely.
Grace La co-edited ''Skycar City'' with
Winy Maas
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Education
He completed his studies at the RHSTL Bosko ...
, co-founded and edited
UWM's ''Calibrations'', and was a member of the design editorial board of the
Journal of Architectural Education
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for two terms. Her past research and teaching at UWM were funded by the international furniture manufacturer, KI, and resulted in numerous designed objects and
prototypes
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, including a mass-customized public seating prototype exhibited at
Discovery World
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Focus
Mission
"Discovery World provides fun and educational ...
. This work was featured in the Design Innovations Panel of the
Metropolis
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A big c ...
Conference at
ICFF in 2010.
As Director of the
GSD
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* Harvard Graduate School of Design
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's
M.Arch
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Programs, La was responsible for both the M.Arch I and M.Arch II
architecture
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degree programs
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, the largest
department
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Government and military
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constituency at the GSD. During this period, she re-tooled the
architecture
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department
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's
admissions process, resulting in the highest admissions yield in the history of the school. As Chair of the Practice Platform, La oversees
curriculum
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development and programs in the area of design practice and is the host of
Talking Practice,
Harvard GSD's inaugural
podcast series launched in October 2018. Exploring matters and methods of practice, La has engaged podcast interviews with renowned designers such as Shohei Shigematsu,
Jeanne Gang
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,
Reinier de Graaf
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,
Anna Heringer
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Preston Scott Cohen
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, and others.
In September 2019- January 2020, La co-curated with Jeremy Ficca and Amy Kulper, an exhibition entitled, "Drawing Attention," at the Roca London Gallery. The exhibition, gathering more than seventy five exemplary contemporary architectural drawings, opened during the London Design Festival. The exhibit was reviewed by the Royal Institute of British Architects among others, and was noted as a top exhibit to see in November 2019 by London's Guardian. Together with Ficca and Kulper, La was also the Co-Chair of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's 107th Annual Conference, entitled
Black Box: Articulating Architecture's Core in the Post-Digital Era in 2019, leading the national debate on questions of design pedagogy. According to the ACSA, the conference generated more than four hundred submissions, the largest quantity of responses in the last decade.
Honors and awards
La received four Faculty Design Awards from
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
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, honoring her for her projects that have "advance
the reflective nature of practice and teaching". La received a university-wide honor from
UWM for her exemplary teaching and research with the UWM Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
La's award-winning practice, LA DALLMAN, is honored with a 2021
Progressive Architecture Award, nine Design Awards from the
American Institute of Architects
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Wisconsin
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, three
Boston Society of Architects
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History
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Unbuilt Design Awards, and multiple international design competition awards. LA DALLMAN was named a 2010
Emerging Voice by the
Architectural League of New York
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The league dates from 1881, when Cass Gilbert organized meetings at the Salmagundi Club for ...
and received the
Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal. The firm received the international Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize in 2011, honoring "exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their career." Grace La and James Dallman are the first
North American
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practitioners to receive the prize, which was previously awarded to architects Antón García-Abril of
Spain
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and
Sou Fujimoto
is a Japanese architect.
Born in Hokkaido in 1971, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1994, and established his own office, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in 2000. Noted for delicate light structures and permeable enclosures, Fujimoto desig ...
of
Japan
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.
In March 2021, LA DALLMAN's transformation of the Teweles & Brandeis Granary in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin was celebrated as the cover image of
Architect
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Magazine, the Journal of the American Institute of Architects. LA DALLMAN's work is featured in publications by Spain's a+t,
Architect Magazine
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Overview
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,
Architectural Record
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,
Azure, Praxis,
Princeton Architectural Press
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,
Routledge
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, and Topos. They had exhibitions at the
Carnegie Museum of Art
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Heinz Architectural Center and the
Danish Architecture Centre
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DAC’s objective and legitimacy consist in ...
in
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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. LA DALLMAN has given
lectures
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in numerous
symposia
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it contains six species in Venezuela
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and esteemed institutions such as the
Museum of Fine Arts in
Houston
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, the
National Building Museum
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in
Washington D.C.
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, and the
New Museum
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History
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...
in
New York City
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.
Notable projects
LA DALLMAN is renowned for the
design
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and execution of the Crossroads Project: Marsupial Bridge and Media Garden, and urban transformation project begun in 1999 and lasting more than a decade. This four-phased
infrastructural
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transformation for public use includes a pedestrian bridge of 700 feet length named Marsupial Bridge, a
bus shelter, a media garden, and a
viewing deck. The project has been
published
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and
exhibited broadly, including a full-scale
mock-up
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of the media garden "lightslabs", in the Reprogramming the City exhibit at the
Danish Architecture Centre
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DAC’s objective and legitimacy consist in ...
.
Among others, La's completed projects co-authored with partner, James Dallman, include the
Miller Brewing Company
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Meeting Center (headquarters originally designed by mid-century architect,
Ulrich Franzen
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), permanent science
exhibits
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for
Discovery World
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Focus
Mission
"Discovery World provides fun and educational ...
, the Marsupial Bridge and Media Garden, the
Kilbourn Tower
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, the
UWM Hillel Student Center, and several prominent residences including the Levy House and the Pavilion House in
Wisconsin
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. At the time of its completion in 2005,
Kilbourn Tower
The Kilbourn Tower is a 33-story, building in Milwaukee
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was the tallest residential building in
Wisconsin
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and ranks as the 14th
tallest building designed by a woman.
Known for expertise of mid-century modern buildings, LA DALLMAN was
shortlisted
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in 2018 for the
renovation
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of the
American Repertory Theater
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, originally designed by Hugh Stubbins. LA DALLMAN completed the renovation of
Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall and a new river entrance at the
Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
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, originally designed by
Harry Weese
Harry Mohr Weese (June 30, 1915 – October 29, 1998) was an American architect who had an important role in 20th century modernism and historic preservation. His brother, Ben Weese, is also a renowned architect.
Early life and education
Harry ...
.
Further reading
''Fabricated Landscapes: LA DALLMAN'' (UWM School of Architecture, 2009). Essays by Raymund Ryan, Filip Tejchman, Grace La, and James Dallman. Foreword by Robert Greenstreet.
Notes
References
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Living people
Harvard College alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)