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2014 American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) Distinguished Practice Award

This annual award recognizes significant contributions to a specific building type or practice area, as well as an individual architect’s work, responses to challenges and innovations within the design and construction process, and achievement of design excellence through a collaborative spirit. Ms. Stiegler received this honor for her contribution to historic preservation, the first time […]

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UCSD Audrey Geisel University House Rehabilitation

This National Register resource is used as both a chancellor’s private residence and a public space for university symposiums and events. The resource, a 12,000 square foot Pueblo Revival residence, was built in 1950-1951 of unreinforced adobe. The original residence was never intended to serve the overlapping criteria of private residence and public venue, and […]

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San Diego Home/Garden Magazine (January 2015) – “All Fired Up”

An element that enhances the whole feel of Nancy Scull’s La Jolla kitchen is the honey-colored Jerusalem limestone around the pizza oven – except that Nancy respects the appliance too much to refer to it with that term. She calls it “the wood-fired over.” We don’t call it a pizza oven, because we cook a […]

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