Georgina Huljich and her team at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles, and collaborators at Maxi Spina Architects (MSA) have won two design awards for Jujuy Redux, a mid-rise apartment building in Rosario, Argentina. Huljich is an assistant adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at UCLA as well as director of the Architecture and Urban Design Summer Program at UCLA.
P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S and MSA received the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Award, given each year to honor outstanding work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor. The firm also received an award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, which honors the best, new significant building and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally.
Architect Magazine described the project, which is located on a small corner lot adjacent to the downtown and riverfront neighborhoods in Rosario, "The poured-in-place concrete structure, which boasts 13 apartments, a marble-clad lobby and a rooftop terrace, is lined with balconies that open out onto the street corner. The articulated form of these balconies break up the massing of the building, and with apertures, integrated benches, and LED lighting, the design provides social spaces that can be tailored to the needs of each resident.
The magazine quoted San Francisco architect Elizabeth Ranieri: “The sense that the building desires to acknowledge the corner I thought was beautiful. It felt Argentinian to me — a country where they dress up to take out the garbage.”
Huljich is a co-founder and co-principal of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. The firm's work has been exhibited and published worldwide, most notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco MOMA and Vienna MAK Museum. She previously worked in New York at the Guggenheim Museum and the architectural firm Dean/Wolf Architects, and as project designer at Morphosis in Los Angeles. She has lectured extensively in the U.S. and internationally, and has held teaching positions including the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale, Maybeck Fellowship at UC Berkeley, Visiting Professorships at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Huljich earned her M.Arch. from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
