Draft:Katherine Lambert

Lambert earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Minnesota, focusing on Interior Architecture and the History of Architecture, before pursuing graduate studies in the Master of Architecture II Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

As a Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) Lambert has contributed to curriculum development, research, and faculty leadership, including serving on the CCA Executive Committee (2023-26){{Cite web |title=Executive Committee - CCA Portal |url=https://portal.cca.edu/teaching/faculty-governance/executive-committee/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=portal.cca.edu}}, the Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee (2019–21){{Cite web |title=Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee - CCA Portal |url=https://portal.cca.edu/teaching/faculty-governance/appointments-promotions-and-tenure-committee/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=portal.cca.edu}}, and chairing the Interior Architecture program (2005-2012).

Lambert has been invited to lecture and exhibit at institutions including Goldsmiths' College University of London, the Royal College of Art (RCA),{{Cite web |title=INCITE - Events - Past Events |url=https://studioincite.com/activities/events/rca_incite_collab/index.htm |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=studioincite.com}} Center for Architecture NYC,{{Cite web |date=2023-06-01 |title=This Future Has a Past - Center for Architecture |work=Center for Architecture |url=https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/exhibitions/the-future-has-a-past/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230601201753/https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/exhibitions/the-future-has-a-past/ |archive-date=1 June 2023 }} Venice Biennale,{{Cite web |date=2017-02-20 |title=TIME SPACE EXISTENCE - BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2016 by Massimo Valente - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/massimovalente/docs/496_pagine_biennale_2016_-_time_spa |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=2023 ARCH. BIENNIAL |url=https://ecc-italy.eu/exhibitions/2023archbiennial |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=ecc-italy.eu}} Dwell on Design,{{Cite web |last=Heet |first=Erika |date=2015-01-18 |title=The Best Moments of Dwell on Design Los Angeles 2014 |url=https://www.dwell.com/article/the-best-moments-of-dwell-on-design-los-angeles-2014-b1dd5207 |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Dwell}} Palm Springs Modernism,{{Cite web |title=US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love: #65/Modernism Week 7: SFMOMA's Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher plus Christiane Robbins + Katherine Lambert |url=https://sites.libsyn.com/64486/65modernism-week-7-robbins-lambert-fletcher |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=sites.libsyn.com |language=en}} the College Art Association,{{Cite web |title=CAA 113th Annual Conference |url=https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/meetingapp.cgi#:~:text=the%20presenters'%20decision.-,Welcome%20to%20the%20CAA%20113th%20Annual%20Conference%20Schedule!,held%20in-person%20and%20online.&text=//-,Register%20and%20Sign%20in%20to%20view%20abstracts%20and%20create%20your,based%20on%20the%20presenters'%20decision. |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250308140448/https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/meetingapp.cgi |archive-date=2025-03-08 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=CAA - CAA 113th Annual Conference}} and San Jose State University.{{Cite web |title=The Arts in San Jose, CA {{!}} ZeroOne San Jose + ISEA2006 |url=https://www.metroactive.com/metro/08.02.06/exhibits.html |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=www.metroactive.com}}

As founding principal of FACE (Forum for Architecture + Creative Engagement) Lambert led commercial, residential, and cultural projects, blending digital media, architectural preservation, and urbanism. During this period she published an article, Dirt Manifesto, in Architecture Magazine. It was cited as "a bellwether call to the architectural profession to meld and prioritize progressive design principles with sustainable practices".{{Cite web |title=Lambert, Katherine C. – BWAF Dynamic National Archive |url=https://dna.bwaf.org/architect/lambert-katherine-c |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=dna.bwaf.org}}

Quokka Sports was a San Francisco-based digital media company specializing in immersive online coverage of adventure and outdoor sports.{{Cite web |date=2000-08-15 |title=quokka.com // Front Page |url=http://www.quokka.com/index.html |access-date=2025-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000815065157/http://www.quokka.com/index.html |archive-date=15 August 2000 }} Sportico writes "Quokka and Macromedia, had a big impact on the dynamic nature of the web. Macromedia worked with Netscape to create the plugin model to allow for more video and audio, and Macromedia recruited Quokka as a content provider partner to show what was possible."{{Cite web |last=Feldman |first=Jacob |date=2020-07-23 |title=An Oral History of Quokka, the Company that (Almost) Shook Up Sports |url=https://www.sportico.com/business/tech/2020/quokka-oral-history-dot-com-startup-sports-media-1234609714/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Sportico.com |language=en-US}} This adaptive reuse of a former textile factory was noted for "creating an environment that was pretty cool—this exposed brick building with large steel beams, and these really cool wood desk setups with sail cloths as the partitions. And it wasn’t just sail cloth, it was the latest, newest, coolest sailing cloth with all these fibers embedded in it, just the right color, slightly yellow. It had a great tech vibe to it, and Al, the CEO, sat right in the middle."

Established in 1990 as the Tenderloin AIDS Network by activists Hank Wilson, Glenda Hope, and Dennis Conkin, TARC emerged in response to the escalating HIV/AIDS crisis within the Tenderloin district.{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.sfcommunityhealth.org/history |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=San Francisco Community Health Center |language=en-US}} FACE's adaptive reuse of a storefront for TARC's headquarters was featured in Architectural Record, Metropolis, and Progressive Architecture. Lambert's TARC Book was distributed by Printed Matter & The Dia Foundation{{Cite web |title=Katherine Lambert and Mark Kessler - FACE - The Tenderloin Aids Resource Centre |url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/5517/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Printed Matter |language=en}} and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Getty Library.

Constructed in 1910 as the Savings Union Bank, One Grant Avenue was designed by architects Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville. The building showcases a Beaux-Arts style with a steel frame clad in gray granite and its façade is distinguished by six Ionic columns supporting a massive pedimental sculpture, which houses a bas-relief of Liberty by Haig Patigian.{{Cite web |title=PCAD - San Francisco Savings Union, Headquarters Building #6, 1 Grant Avenue, Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/19756/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu}}{{Cite web |title=(Pediment Bas-Relief), (sculpture). |url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1F7I172699M15.1643&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&term=&index=.GW&aspect=Keyword&term=&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=CA001806&index=.NW&x=13&y=17 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=siris-artinventories.si.edu}} The Savings Union Bank was designated a San Francisco Landmark in 1981.{{Cite web |title=San Francisco Landmark #132: Savings Union Bank |url=https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf132.asp |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=noehill.com}} In the 1990s, FACE's adaptive reuse efforts converted the former bank into a retail space while preserving its historic architectural elements.{{Cite web |title=Wells Fargo Bank – Public Art and Architecture from Around the World |url=https://artandarchitecture-sf.com/tag/wells-fargo-bank |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=artandarchitecture-sf.com}}{{Cite web |date=2012-07-20 |title=Architectural Spotlight: Two Old Banks Stand Proud |url=https://www.untappedcities.com/architectural-spotlight-two-old-banks-stand-proud/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Untapped New York |language=en}}

Built in 1913, the Samuel L. Naphtaly House showcases the early 20th century architect Willis Polk's adaptation of Spanish city architecture, featuring a stucco exterior and a central courtyard. It is the first of three houses built by Polk on San Francisco’s Gold Coast that share a common plan configuration: a U-shaped courtyard that wraps around a central courtyard.{{Cite web |title=Architecturally Significant Buildings in San Francisco: S. I. Naphtaly House in Pacific Heights designed by Willis Polk |url=https://noehill.com/architects/polk/naphtaly_house.asp |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=noehill.com}} FACE's adaptive reuse retained Willis Polk's plan and included a new domed mechanical skylight, squash court, lap pool, elevator, and garage.

FACE's Sonoma Ranch Compound was one of the earliest sustainable residences in Northern California. The design of the ranch is rooted in the local tradition of the Sonoma adobes,{{Cite web |title=Architectural Heritage |url=https://www.preservesonoma.org/heritage |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Sonoma League for Historic Preservation |language=en-US}} specifically the Rancho Petaluma Adobe, built by General Mariano G. Vallejo in the mid-19th century.

This 300 acre ranch in Sonoma comprises main residence built of rammed earth and straw bale construction methodologies designed to "reflect the natural, cultural and historical aspects of its setting, but in a contemporary way."{{Cite web |date=2016-07-30 |title=FUNHOUSE / An S.F. investor wanted a place for his family and friends to play. So he built an 11,800-square-foot party pad with a 2-acre lake, a softball field and an emphasis on comfort. - SFGate |url=http://www.sfgate.com:80/realestate/article/FUNHOUSE-An-S-F-investor-wanted-a-place-for-2611759.php |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160730224225/http://www.sfgate.com:80/realestate/article/FUNHOUSE-An-S-F-investor-wanted-a-place-for-2611759.php |archive-date=30 July 2016 |access-date=2025-02-28 |work=SFGate}} The work "began by installing a forge, cabinetry and masonry workshops on the site. From these, nearly all the materials used to construct the two-story residence emerged - rammed earth countertops and tiles, cabinetry hardware and hand-forged iron doors, mica lamps and cast stone sink bowls...It is constructed of steel-reinforced rammed earth, a mixture of 30 percent concrete and 70 percent dirt taken from the site. Fallen bay and madrone trees were milled and crafted into cabinetry and flooring. Redwood beams and rafters came from a century-old bridge that had been disassembled."

Lambert founded Metropolitan Architectural Practice (MAP) in 2003 and MAP Studio in 2012, focusing on adaptive reuse, sustainable and research-driven design practices. Projects include residential and commercial architecture across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Napa, such as Esprit Park Studio, a bio-tech headquarters, tech start-ups, and the Architizer A+ Award winning Berrelleza Sustainability Research Center Masterplan.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-15 |title=Sugar Loaf Ridge by MAP studio |url=https://architizer.com/projects/sugar-loaf-ridge/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Architizer |language=en-us}}

Restoration, remediation, and renovation of a mid-century landmark home by Jack Hillmer, recognized for Cultural Historical Significance (2014){{Cite web |last=jway |date=2023-02-23 |title=The Telesis House |url=https://napacountylandmarks.org/the-telesis-house/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Napa County Landmarks |language=en-US}} and featured in Dwell{{Cite web |last=Hartman |first=Eviana |date=2014-11-12 |title=The Midcentury Home That Maintains Its Quirkiness After All These Years |url=https://www.dwell.com/article/the-midcentury-home-that-maintains-its-quirkiness-after-all-these-years-2dec73dd |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Dwell}} and the Wall Street Journal.{{Cite web |title=Renovated Napa Home Now a Cultural Landmark |url=https://www.wsj.com/video/renovated-napa-home-now-a-cultural-landmark/41A04477-B0B4-4E1E-9746-7A635EAF5626 |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2014-10-23 |title=The Careful Renovation of an Architecturally Important House |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-careful-renovation-of-an-architecturally-important-house-1414079083 |access-date=2025-02-28 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite news |last=Keates |first=Nancy |date=2014-10-23 |title=A Jack Hillmer House Gets a Makeover |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-jack-hillmer-house-gets-a-makeover-1414079624 |access-date=2025-02-28 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}} Recipient of the 2015 Fine Homebuilding Houses Award{{Cite web |title=1111 House |url=https://www.finehomebuilding.com/readerproject/2014/07/31/1111-house |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Fine Homebuilding |language=en-US}} and Napa County Landmarks 2020 Award of Merit.{{Cite web |last=YERGER |first=REBECCA |date=2020-12-11 |title=Napa County Landmarks' 2020 Awards of Merit |url=https://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/napa-county-landmarks-2020-awards-of-merit/article_9a047626-dcff-5393-a9cd-db0b86a17067.html?srsltid=AfmBOopOk50TbVbd7B39ikwD34k6gh4M8UKLx_jdfBX91asySb9TvEtO |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=The Napa Valley Register |language=en}}

MAP repurposed a landmark building that previously held the Bay Area Guardian into a multi story global headquarters for PCH International in San Francisco's tech hub. The original concrete and steel finishes were complimented with painted steel, white oak, and glass elements. Redesigned interiors include "state-of-the-art prototyping laboratories, naturally lighted work stations, conference, and training rooms, and a presentation hall outfitted with advanced interactive teleconferencing, audio visual and lighting infrastructure".{{Cite web |date=2014-08-25 |title=PCH Innovation Hub by ChrDAUER Architects |url=https://architizer.com/projects/pch-international-innovation-hub/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Architizer |language=en-us}}

MAP's application of adaptive reuse practices at the Regency Center/Scottish Right Temple and the San Francisco Opera House offices transformed historic interiors for administrative and creative use.{{Cite web |title=A Dream Come True {{!}} SFO |url=https://www.sfopera.com/about/venue/wilsey-center-for-opera/a-dream-come-true/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=www.sfopera.com |language=en}}

Lambert co-created This Future Has a Past, a multimedia architectural investigation into modernist architect Gregory Ain’s lost MoMA Exhibition House which was exhibited at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016). Curated by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this collateral exhibition showcased served as "a call to action, urging architects and the public to engage with the critical challenges of our time through innovative and socially conscious design".

This Future Has a Past was then curated by Cynthia Davidson, Executive Director of Anyone Corporation, as the inaugural ANYSPACE exhibition at the Center for Architecture, New York (2017) and was widely covered in the press, including The New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Denny |first=Phillip R. |date=2017-08-09 |title=The Architect, the Red Scare and the House That Disappeared |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/arts/design/gregory-ain-the-architect-the-red-scare-and-the-house-that-disappeared.html |access-date=2025-02-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Architectural Digest,{{Cite web |last=Rus |first=Mayer |date=2015-03-31 |title=How Midcentury Architect Gregory Ain Mixed Social Responsibility With Great Design |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gregory-ain-exhibition |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en-US}} Metropolis,{{Cite web |title=A Model Life: New Exhibition Highlights Forgotten Midcentury Architect Gregory Ain |url=https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/new-exhibition-highlights-forgotten-midcentury-architect-gregory-ain/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Metropolis |language=en-US}} The Architect's Newspaper,{{Cite web |last=Sayer |first=Jason |date=2017-08-11 |title=FBI files, a missing MoMA house, and the life of modernist architect Gregory Ain |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2017/08/gregory-ain-moma-house/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=The Architect’s Newspaper |language=en-US}} Artsy,{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Isaac |date=2017-08-16 |title=The "Most Dangerous Architect in America" Built a House—Then It Vanished |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-most-dangerous-architect-america-built-house-vanished |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Artsy |language=en}} and Archinect.{{Cite web |title=Gregory Ain, once "the most dangerous architect in America," and the mysterious fate of his MoMA exhibition house |url=https://archinect.com/news/article/150022339/gregory-ain-once-the-most-dangerous-architect-in-america-and-the-mysterious-fate-of-his-moma-exhibition-house |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Archinect |language=en}}

Lambert is an Executive Producer on No Place Like Utopia, a documentary film exploring Gregory Ain, modernist principles, and political suppression in post-WWII America. The film includes interviews with Emily Ain, David Byrne, Beatriz Colomina, Frank Gehry, Victor Jones, Thom Mayne, Wolf Prix, and Julius Shulman.{{Cite web |title=FILM |url=https://www.noplacelikeutopia.net/film |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=No Place Like Utopia |language=en-US}}

Lambert’s critical writings on architecture, digital imaging, and adaptive reuse and coverage of her work have appeared in leading publications, including The New York Times, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest,Architecture, Dwell, Forward AIA, i-D magazine, Leonardo Electronic Almanac,{{Cite web |date=2015-12-12 |title=L.A. Re.Play Volume 21 No 1 |url=https://www.leoalmanac.org/l-a-re-play-volume-21-no-1/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Leonardo Electronic Almanac |language=en-US}} Metropolis, Progressive Architecture, Parallax, and the Wall Street Journal,.

Lambert's TARC Book was distributed by Printed Matter & The Dia Foundation and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Getty Library.

Lambert's book Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic (ORO Editions) will be released in 2025. {{Cite web |title=Coming Soon – Oro Editions – Publishers of Architecture, Art, and Design |url=https://www.oropublishers.com/collections/upcoming-titles |access-date=2025-03-02 |language=en-US}}

Lambert's work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution,{{Cite web |last=Institution |first=Smithsonian |title=Face in San Francisco south of Market Street Katherine Lambert and Mark Kessler, architect ; Lee Bloom, Kathy DeFehr, Dona Garner ; fiberglass cover, Connie Harris ; photography, Sharon Risedorph, Karen Steffans ; copy, Ce Ce Iandoli ; design, Claudia Middendorf |url=https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_476377 |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}} the Getty Library,{{Cite web |title=https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=GRI&docid=GETTY_ALMA21135386060001551&context=L |url=https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=GRI&docid=GETTY_ALMA21135386060001551&context=L |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=primo.getty.edu |language=en}} the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, the Dia Art Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Architizer A+ Awards (2023) – Sustainability Category, Sugar Loaf Ridge, Napa, CA.

Graham Foundation Grant (2018) for This Future Has a Past.{{Cite web |title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Anyone Corporation |url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5206-anyspace-this-future-has-a-past |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.grahamfoundation.org}}

IDECF Leibrock Fellowship for Universal Design (2019).{{Cite web |title=Leibrock Universal Design Scholarship |url=https://www.idecfoundation.org/leibrock-universal-design-scholarship1.html |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=IDEC Foundation |language=en}}

Napa County Landmarks Board Award of Merit (2020) for Telesis House v2.0.

[https://www.map-studio-ca.com MAP Studio Official Website]

[https://telesishouse.net/ Telesis House v2.0]

[https://www.noplacelikeutopia.net/exhibitions This Future Has a Past]

[https://www.noplacelikeutopia.net No Place Like Utopia]

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