Karla Rothstein

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Karla Rothstein received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Maryland, School of Architecture in 1988 and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in 1992.{{Cite web|url=http://www.arqred.mx/blog/karla-rothstein-profesora-3/|title=karla Rothstein|website=Arquitectura en Red|language=es-ES|access-date=2016-03-05|date=2009-08-26}} While at GSAPP, Karla participated in exchange programs in Russia and Switzerland, receiving Certificates of Academic Exchange from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1989 and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in 1991. Prior to co-founding her own architecture practice, Rothstein worked as an international coordinating architect for William McDonough and Ralph Appelbaum & Associates.

Rothstein's first built work was "Ballston Lake House" near Saratoga Springs, New York, developed with Joel Towers, which is anchored by 150,000 pounds of precast concrete. It was the only US house included in the book "In DETAIL: Single Family Houses" (Birkhäuser, 2000) in addition to being counted among notable architecture historian Kenneth Frampton's anthology of American Masterworks (Rizzoli, 2008).{{cite book|last1=Frampton|first1=Kenneth|last2=Larkin|first2=David|title=American Masterworks: The Twentieth-century House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHQ8PgAACAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Universe|isbn=978-0-7893-0671-5}}

In 2014, Karla Rothstein's design of a commercial space that featured custom fabricated concrete blocks cast in flour sacks was recognized by Built by Women New York City and the American Institute of Architects New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.bwaf.org/winning-sites-for-built-by-women-new-york-city-bxw-nyc/|title=Winning Sites Built by Women New York City|publisher=BWAF|date=15 December 2014|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117021117/http://www.bwaf.org/winning-sites-for-built-by-women-new-york-city-bxw-nyc/|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=dead}} In 2015, Latent's Constellation Park project placed third in an international competition on new ways of memorializing the dead. A model of the project was sold by Christie's at a charity auction and is currently on display at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.{{cite web|url=http://latentnyc.com/project/36/|title=Constellation Park|publisher=Latent Productions|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=22 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022055832/http://latentnyc.com/project/36/|url-status=dead}} Constellation Park was featured in New York Magazine's 2016 Reasons to Love New York issue.{{Cite news|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/reasons-to-love-new-york-2016.html#forty-three|title=47 Reasons to Love New York, Right Now, More Than Ever|newspaper=Daily Intelligencer|access-date=2016-12-15}} Her most notable work was Verboten, a 10,000 square foot night club in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite web|url=http://architizer.com/projects/verboten-events/|title=Verboten|date=6 February 2015|publisher=Architizer.com|access-date=20 October 2015 }} Current projects include the design and development of 25 units of affordable housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, awarded through the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development,{{cite web|url=http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=5&id=8550|title=Developers for New Affordable Housing Announced|author=Collins, Linda|publisher=Brooklyn Daily Express|date=25 September 2006|access-date=20 October 2006|archive-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023603/http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=5&id=8550|url-status=dead}} the design of environmentally-advanced civic infrastructure to replace urban cemeteries, an environmentally-conscious childcare facility in New York City, a prototype for a resilient small scale building in a Rockaways flood zone, and the conversion of a 240,000 square foot former mill in the Berkshires called Greylock Works,{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_28604593/architects-lay-out-vision-greylock-mill-north-adams|title=Architects lay out vision for Greylock Mill in North Adams|author=Stafford, Scott|date=7 August 2015|publisher=The Berkshire Eagle|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117020415/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_28604593/architects-lay-out-vision-greylock-mill-north-adams|url-status=dead}} among others. Greylock Works is little more than two years into a renovation process that will transform the former industrial site converted into a mixture of food production, residential, hotel and restaurant space.{{Cite news|url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/greylock_works_to_bring_new_ho.html|title=Greylock Works to bring hotel, restaurant to former North Adams mill (photos)|work=masslive.com|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en-US}} The project was recently awarded a substantial grant of $1.72 million from the Massachusetts State Secretary of Housing and Economic Development.{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/greylock-works-mill-redevelopment-project-nets-crucial-172m-grant,524542|title=Greylock Works mill redevelopment project nets 'crucial' $1.72M grant|last=Shanks|first=Adam|date=13 November 2017|website=The Berkshire Eagle|access-date=20 March 2018}}

Supported as a Jacob Javits Fellow in Fine Arts from 1988–1992, a William Kinne Traveling Fellow in 1992, and a NYFA recipient in 2000, Rothstein's professional and academic work has been featured and/or exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Barnard College, Columbia University, Van Alen Institute, Max Protetch Gallery, the Center for Architecture, Gizmodo, Architecture Magazine, Casabella, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED, Japan.{{cite web|url=http://latentnyc.com/network/principals/|title=Principals|publisher=Latent Productions|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=23 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823030441/http://latentnyc.com/network/principals/|url-status=dead}}

In July 2018, an extensive exhibition entitled DeathLAB: Democratizing Death opened at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan and will run until March 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=81&d=171&lng=e|title=DeathLAB: Democratizing Death|website=kanazawa21.jp|access-date=November 19, 2018}} The exhibition includes video loops of DeathLAB's Manifesto/Imperative, several design projects, and a series of edited and curated interviews conducted over the past two years.{{Cite web|url=https://archpaper.com/2018/07/gsapps-deathlab-examines-evolving-attitudes-towards-mortality/|title=GSAPP's DeathLAB examines evolving attitudes towards mortality|last=Wong|first=Alex|date=July 19, 2018|website=archpaper.com|access-date=November 19, 2018}}

2001

• Progressive Architecture Award Citation for 20+22 Renwick, a proposal for an 11-story building challenging NYC zoning interpretation

2006

• New York/ New Foundations Affordable Housing, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development

2013

• Presidential Award to Honor Great Teaching, Finalist, Columbia University
• DesignBoom Design for Death Architecture Competition, Short-listed design for Constellation Park

2014:

• AIANY Honor Award, Interiors, for Runner&Stone, a bakery-barrestaurant in Gowanus, NY
• Architizer's A+ Awards, Architecture + Materials, Finalist for concrete Belly Blocks
• Monumental Masonry Competition, International funerary design, third place for Constellation Park

2015

• BxW, Built by Women NYC, award recognizing 100 women contributing to outstanding structures and built environments in New York City

2016

• DeathLAB + LATENT Productions' design proposal "Sylvan Constellation" has been awarded first place in the Future Cemetery 2016 design competition. The proposal reimagines the future of Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, UK, with 150 anaerobic funerary vessels rising from the ground into a woodland canopy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2016/03/01/future-cemetery/|title=Researchers reimagine the future cemetery at Arnos Vale|last=web-support@bath.ac.uk|website=bath.ac.uk|access-date=2016-03-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/spring-2016/making-light-death|title=Making Light of Death {{!}} Columbia Magazine|last=Kester|first=Eric|website=magazine.columbia.edu|access-date=2016-03-21}}

2018

• Fall-Winter MacDowell Fellowship{{Cite web |url=https://www.macdowell.org/news/87-artists-awarded-fall-winter-mac-dowell-fellowships |title=87 Artists Awarded Fall-Winter MacDowell Fellowships |website=MacDowell |access-date=November 19, 2018}}

2003:

• "process is the pollywog", Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation {{ISBN|1-883584-28-0}}

2013:

• "'Reconfiguring Urban Spaces of Disposal, Sanctuary and Remembrance" included as a chapter in ABC-CLIO Praeger's "Our Changing Journey to the End: Reshaping Death, Dying, and Grief in America." {{ISBN|978-1-4408-2845-4}}
• "Carbon Black" in "V is for Vermillion as described by Vitruvius, An A to Z of Ink in Architecture ." {{ISBN|978-1-883584-90-0}}

2014:

• "Civic-Sanctuary" in "Zawia."

2016:

• "DEATHLAB Designing the Civic-Sacred" in "PASAJES Architectura{{Cite news|url=https://issuu.com/chime/docs/p141_portada_editorial_disen__o|title=PASAJES 141 portada editorial diseño|newspaper=Issuu|access-date=2016-11-01}}"

2018:

• "The New Civic–Sacred: Designing for Life and Death in the Modern Metropolis" in "MIT Design Issues"{{Cite news|title=The New Civic–Sacred: Designing for Life and Death in the Modern Metropolis|journal=MIT Design Issues|doi=10.1162/DESI_a_00474}}"
• "Death and the City: Designing the Civic-Sacred" in "Death and Architecture"{{Cite journal |author=Karla Rothstein |url=http://deathlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/issue_001_DEATH_TOC-1.pdf |title=Death and the City: Designing the Civic-Sacred |date=July 2017 |issue=1 |website=Death and Architecture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084957/http://deathlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/issue_001_DEATH_TOC-1.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2018 |access-date=March 26, 2018}}
• "Salon 19 Modern Death" in "MoMA R&D"{{Cite web |url=http://momarnd.moma.org/salons/salon-19-modern-death/ |title=Salon 19: Modern Death |website=MoMA R&D |language=en |access-date=2018-03-27}}

2018

• DeathLAB: Democratizing Death at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, July 2018-March 2019
• OnSite: Karla Rothstein at Art Omi, October 6-November 4, 2018{{Cite web |url=http://artomi.org/exhibitions/onsite-karla-rothstein |title=OnSite: Karla Rothstein |website=ART OMI |access-date=November 19, 2018}}

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