PROFILE
Heather Roberge, a faculty member since 2002, is a practicing architect and educator in Los Angeles. She is the Director of the undergraduate program in Architectural Studies and teaches graduate courses in design and digital fabrication. She is the founder and principal of murmur, a practice that focuses on the effective implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses. Murmur's current projects include the Vortex House under construction in Malibu, CA and a residence in Beverly Hills, CA. Her work has received numerous design awards and has been included in A+U, Praxis, Metropolis, I.D., Japan Esquire, Architectural Record 2, Log, 306090, Form Magazine, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, Softspace, Crib Sheets and Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques among others. In 2006, as co-founder of Gnuform, she participated in MOMA’s Young Architects Program with the submission of a project titled “Purple Haze” and was included in the Bejing Biennial, “Emerging Talents: Emerging Technologies.” Her work has been displayed in exhibitions including “Gnuform: Hairstyle”, “Patterns: Cases in Synthetic Intelligence”, “Temporalism” and “Matters of Sensation.” Her work is included in three upcoming publications. Contemporary Plasticity is a three part book that includes student proposals from her UCLA fabrication seminars called Between the Sheets. Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production includes an article titled "Sheet Logics: Speculations on the Organizational and Cosmetic Potential of Sheets." Lastly, her proposal for the Succulent House is included in the upcoming book, 306090 Volume 14: Making A Case in which editors asked eight architects to imagine the future of the American House.
Heather.Roberge@aud.ucla.edu
Murmur
Image credits left to right:
position 01, 02 - Vortex house, Malibu, 2011
position 03, 04 - New Taipei City Museum of Art Conceptual Design, 2011
position 05, 06 - Succulent House, 2011
position 07 - Ultramarine, LACE Gallery, Hollywood, 2010
positon 08 - Bioform, Artists Space, New York, 2008
EDUCATION
M.Arch., Ohio State
B.S. in Architecture, Ohio State
STUDIO
Murmur
AWARDS
2006 UCLArts Arts Forum Grant
2006 Charles Moore Traveling Grant
2006 Gnuform, Los Angeles AIA Design Award, NGTV bar
2006 Gnuform, PS1/MoMA Young Architects’ Program, Finalist