Linda Pollari is an American architect. Based in Los Angeles, California, she serves as the principal of P XS.

Linda Pollari
Born
Linda Pollari
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect

Career edit

She holds a Masters in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago and BFA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Since 2000, she has served as Chair of the Architecture/Landscapes/Interiors Department at Otis College of Art and Design[1] in Los Angeles. One of her best known works is a house she designed at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and South Highland Avenue in Los Angeles.[2]

Pollari is the recipient of numerous awards including House of the Month, December, 2007 from Architectural Record,[3] a Citation from American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles, Next LA Awards; American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design Award of Excellence; Los Angeles Business Council 34th Los Angeles Architectural Awards Merit Award, American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles, Design Awards Finalist, San Jose State University Museum of Art and Design Competition Merit Award, AIA-Sunset 2003-2004 Western Home Awards House of the Year Award,[4] Architecture and Metropolitan Home Magazines.

Publications edit

  • pen 4/1 No. 172, (Japan: 2006): 70-71
  • archithese (Switzerland: 3.2007): 46-47
  • California HOME+DESIGN (May 2007): 100-101
  • FORM Pioneering Design (September/October 2007): 40
  • Architectural Record.com, House of the Month (December 2007)
  • 1000 x Architecture of the Americas (Verlagshaus Braun, 2008): 20.
  • Architecture and Design: Los Angeles (Fusion Publishing, DAAB Book Series, 2008): 158-162
  • SPACES Issue 21 (UK: April 2008): 3, 87-93

References edit

  1. ^ "Linda Pollari". Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. ^ Leitereg, Neal J. (October 9, 2015). "Home of the Day: Modern Marvel on the Miracle Mile". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  3. ^ "House of the Month". Architectural Record. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Los Angeles, California Modernism Meets Mass Transit at a Busy Intersection". Sunset Magazine. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

Outside sources edit