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Sarah Lorenzen is a registered architect and co-founding principal of Plasmatic-Concepts. Sarah grew up in Mexico City (she is fluent in Spanish), and attended a British high school before moving to the US to attend college. In May 2004 she completed a post-professional Masters in Metropolitan Research and Design at SCI_Arc. This one-year program used scenario planning to research and propose innovative solutions to various urban problems. Sarah also received a Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (M.Arch 1997), and studied at Smith College and at the Atlanta College of Art (BFA 1992.)
Sarah is an assistant professor at Cal Poly Pomona where she teaches courses in architecture and urban design. She has also taught design studios at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Sarah has been invited to participate in several conferences and exhibitions including the 2005 UIA conference in Istanbul, and the Life in the Urban Landscape in Sweden. She has received a number of design awards including a six-week travel fellowship to China.
Prior to establishing Plasmatic-Concepts, Sarah worked as a project designer at MBT Architecture in San Francisco (2001-2003), Lord Aeck & Sargent Architecture in Atlanta (1997-
2001), and Stanley, Beaman & Sears Architecture also in Atlanta (1995-1996). Significant projects and achievements at these firms include: developing the master plan for an 80-acre science campus, programming and designing two new research buildings in Pleasanton, California; winning a competition for a 200,000-sf medical research building in San Francisco; programming and developing the design of an undergraduate Science Building for Meredith College in North Carolina; and contributing to all design phases of a 200,000 SF-research lab for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before embarking on her architectural career, Sarah was a research assistant at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. |
