Georgina Huljich (born January 30, 1974) is an Argentinean-American architect and educator. She is a partner in PATTERNS, a Los Angeles-based architecture firm. She has been teaching at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA as an associate professor since 2006.
Early life and education
She received her B.Arch. from the National University of Rosario, Argentina in 1998. She later earned her Master of Architecture from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA in 2003.
Career
Before joining PATTERNS, Huljich had worked at the Guggenheim Museum and Dean/Wolf Architects in New York, Banchini + Spina Arquitectos in Rosario, Argentina and at Morphosis Architects in Los Angeles. She was the Director of AUD Summer Programs at UCLA AUD from 2012 to 2016. She has been on the Executive Board at the Center for the Arts of Performance at UCLA since 2015. She has served on national juries including the AIA Awards and the American Academy in Rome. Among others, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Berkeley, and Di Tella. At the Yale University of Architecture, she was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor in 2013.
Huljich co-authored PATTERNS Embedded (ACDCU, 2010) and Mute Icons and other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Actar, 2020). With Marcelo Spina, she was the co-curator of the group show Matters of Sensation at Artist Space in New York (2008).
Projects
Snake-Rice Scultpure, Icheon, South Korea
Jujuy Redux Apartment, Rosario, Argentina
Zhixin Hybrid Office Building, Chengdu, China
Prism Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
FyF Residence in Rosario, Argentina
Jujuy 2056 Apartment in Rosario, Argentina
League of Shadows Event Structure, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
MOCA Textile Room Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
The White Album Performance, New York, NY & Los Angeles, CA
Awards and recognition
2003: First Prize, 21st Century Park Competition / Graham Foundation, Chicago. Graduation with Distinctions, UCLA.
2005: Maybeck Fellow, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley
2006: First Prize, Vertical Garden Invited Competition, MAK Center at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA.
2007: Honorific Mention, International Competition, Skopje Concert Hall, Skopje, Macedonia
2008: Graham Foundation Grant, ìMatters of Sensationî Artists Space, New York, NY
2011: Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York, NY. Arch is Award, Young Emerging Architects Program, AIA, Los Angeles Chapter.
2012: Honorable Mention, Jujuy Redux, AIA Annual Design Review. AIA LA Honor Award, Collective Void Dormitory, Puerto Rico. AIA LA Merit Award, Jujuy Redux, Rosario, Argentina. First Prize, SCI-Arc Graduation Pavilion Competition, Los Angeles, CA. First Prize, MOCA Pavilion Invited Competition, Los Angeles, US.
2013: United States Artists Grigor Fellow, Los Angeles
2014: American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum
2015: ACSA Faculty Award
2016: AIA LA Merit Award
2017: AIA LA Merit Award
2019: AIA LA Merit Award
Designs by Huljich have been displayed at locations such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The MAK Museum, The Chicago Biennial, MOCA in Los Angeles, and the Venice Biennale.
Books
Mute Icons & other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture
Interrogating historical, contemporary, and — more importantly— speculative images, ‘Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture’aims to construct a viable alternative to the icon’s cliché and exhausted form of communication, positing one that is decidedly introverted and withdrawn. Developing a language and a sensibility for discovering simultaneous, contradictory, and even unexpected readings of architectural form, Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich / PATTERNS’s new book Mute Icons, aims to carve out a niche in contemporary culture and history by suggesting that far from being a crowd-pleaser, architecture can persist within society as a constructive cultural and social irritant. Part history, part theory, and part monographic atlas, the book includes contributions by Georgina Huljich, Guillermo Martinez, Ciro Najle, Marcelo Spina, Brett Steele, and Constance Vale.