Superpowers: The Agency of Architects, What Architects Can Do

Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, FRAIA, founding partner of KoningEizenberg Architecture gives visibility to the design value and potential of community projects and people-oriented practice. Under her leadership, Koning Eizenberg has earned over 200 design and sustainability awards and been widely published in the U.S. and abroad. The practice has been honored as AIA California’s Firm of the Year and, together with Hank Koning, Julie was recognized with the AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award and, in 2022, inducted into the National Academy of Design. Julie teaches and lectures around the world and has shared the practice’s interests in influential monographs including Architecture Isn’t Just for Special Occasions which highlights the value of social engagement and Urban Hallucinations which examines how the idyll of local shapes neighborhoods.