Research Expertise and Interest

architecture, design, materials research and fabrication

Research Description

Professor Iwamoto researches new materials and fabrication techniques for architectural design. Her creative work is centered in her design practice, IwamotoScott Architecture which she co-founded in 2002.  Both her research and teaching focus on design synthesis and the innovative coherence of material, technological, spatial, geometric, and contextual constraints of building. Work includes innovative design at multiple scales including installations, buildings and interiors, and urban proposals. IwamotoScott has received numerous awards including the Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian National Design Award, induction into Interior Design Magazine’s Hall of Fame, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices and Young Architects, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, ACADIA’s Digital Practice award of Excellence, and over twenty AIA Design Awards including a National Award, P/A Award and numerous other architecture and interior awards. Iwamoto was recognized as Next Generation Leader by Architectural Record’s Women in Design. Work of her firm has been published in hundreds of journals and exhibited in numerous museums and galleries. Iwamoto received her Master of Architecture degree with Distinction from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Colorado. She is author of Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques published in 2009 by Princeton Architectural Press and is Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley.