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Rachel Allen Architecture is a studio that believes that beauty and brains should never be mutually exclusive, and that smart materials often turn out to be those previously thought to be the dumbest. The firm's current work includes residential and commercial projects in Northern and Southern California, such as studio space for an abstract painter, a skateboard shop on Fairfax, and an educational kitchen and retail space for June Taylor Jams, an organic fruit preserver in Berkeley, California. We keep the juices flowing by collaborating with artist and designer friends in other media, on designs for furniture and jewelry, short films, textiles, fashion, and performance. Rachel Allen grew up in San Francisco and studied at Princeton University. She worked for five years with Gehry Partners, ultimately serving as an Assistant Project Designer. She was the 2002-2003 recipient of the Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize in architecture, a yearlong fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design from 1996-2001, and has sat on design juries at Princeton University, UCLA, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where she has also taught.
Shown at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in the summer of 2004. This design for a Dream House is located on an imaginary, unspecified hillside site. The house is divided into three pavilions (Studio, Guest House, and Main House), includes an area for outdoor film projection, and is clad in one-way mirrored curtain wall.
The original builder of this 3400 sq. ft. house was an engineer of Eichler Homes, but its clean lines and modern style had been ruined by years of neglect. This extensive renovation involved revising every surface, new windows, doors and skylights, and new bathrooms, kitchen, wine storage, and gardens.
While legally defined as a garage, with its heated concrete floors and recessed lighting this building is also used as a pool house, guest bedroom and office for the owner's talent management company. The pink bathroom wall is based on a Le Corbusier wallpaper color of 1931.
The renovation of this 1926 house was completed, along with gardens by Nancy Goslee Power, for the former Music Director of the LA Philharmonic. The new kitchen (not shown) incorporated Magnesite, the water-resistant plaster also used in the Schindler House.
This 400,000 square building for the Computer Sciences opened in the spring of 2004. Published widely, or visit web.mit.edu/buildings/statacenter for additional information.
Oversaw the renovation of this U-shaped warehouse into offices for a television production company. Photography by Interiors magazine.
This 550-acre plan proposed to combine leasable office space with an agricultural preserve. Orange groves and mirrored office buildings were planted in alternating squares.
