Lisa Iwamoto is an American architect, educator, and author. She is the founding partner of IwamotoScott, an architecture firm based in San Francisco, California. Iwamoto is an associate professor at the

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and the author of Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques published by

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. Iwamoto graduated from the

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and the

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. In 2018, she was named as one of five winners of the fifth annual Women in Architecture awards by Architectural Record. In 2021, Iwamoto was appointed as the Architecture Chair at the

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* Iwamoto, Lisa, and Craig Scott. “Surface / Thickness Translated: Design-Build as Vehicle.” ''Journal of Architectural Education'' 54, no. 3 (February 1, 2001): 185–90. * Hill, Sophie. In Conversation: Lisa Iwamoto. Interview by Dr. Sofia Colabella, April 16, 2021. https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/study/discover/in-conversation-lisa-iwamoto. * Iwamoto, Lisa. 2011. “Line Array: Protocells as Dynamic Structure.” ''Architectural Design'' 81 (2): 111–21. {{DEFAULTSORT:Iwamoto, Lisa Living people University of Colorado Boulder alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty American women architects Year of birth missing (living people) American writers of Japanese descent American academics of Japanese descent