Patricia Belton Oliver, AIA

Patricia Belton Oliver, born and raised in Southern California, received her undergraduate degrees from UCLA in Literature and Independent Studies. Her undergraduate thesis was on the "Transition from Verbal to Visual Thinking" and she completed her studies at UCLA with a Master of Architecture degree. After graduation Ms. Oliver worked for many notable Southern California architects including Frank O. Gehry, Charles Moore, Craig Hodgetts and Robert Mangurian at Studio Works, and Coy Howard. She also worked for Charles Kober and Associates where she contributed to projects as large as the re-design of several square blocks of downtown Nashville.

In 1981 Ms. Oliver opened her own office, Oliver Kurze Georges, in Los Angeles. While maintaining her practice she taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and eventually became Associate Dean of the College of Environmental Design. In 1992, Ms. Oliver became the Chairman of a new department of Environmental Design at Art Center College of Design. In this position she has developed programs in Environmental Product Design, Interior Architecture, Environmental Graphics and Entertainment Design. Currently, Ms Oliver is the Senior Vice President of Architecture, Planning, and Special Projects, working with design architects Frank O. Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung of Hodgetts + Fung, and Kevin Daly of Daly,Genik. In that capacity she is responsible for the planning, programming and management of the design projects for the 175 acre Hillside Campus, and the 7 acre South Campus in downtown Pasadena.

Ms. Oliver has served as President of the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles, Treasurer of the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and Associate Director of the Outreach Community Center for Urban Research. She has served on the Board of Directors for the InterAmerican Center for the Arts and Architecture, and on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter. She has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Southern California Institute of Architecture, North Carolina State University and Milan Polytechnic in Italy. She is a registered architect in California.

Scott Johnson, FAIA

David Littlejohn

Education: University of California, Berkeley. BA 1959 (Architecture/English)

Harvard University. MA 1961, PhD 1963 (English: dissertation, “Johnson’s Moral Thought”)

Asst. Prof. of English, 1963-8; of Journalism 69-70; Assoc. Prof. 1970-76, then Professor 1976-97 of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Emeritus 1997-. Associate or Acting Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, 1974-8, 1985-6, 1987-9.

Fulbright Professor, University of Montpellier, France, 1966-67

Critic, KQED-TV, San Francisco, 1965-75, and Public Broadcasting “Critic at Large,” 1971-72: 238 broadcasts.

West Coast cultural correspondent, The Times (London), 1975-89 (32 reviews); The Wall Street Journal, 1990-2004 (140 reviews).

• Dr. Johnson: His Life in Letters [editor], Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1965
• Black on White: A Critical Survey of Writing by American Negroes, Grossman/Viking, New York, 1966
• Interruptions: Essays, Reviews, and Reflections, Grossman, New York, 1970
• Gide: A Collection of Critical Essays [editor], Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970
• The André Gide Reader [editor], Knopf, New York, 1971
• Dr. Johnson and Noah Webster: Two Men and Their Dictionaries, The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1971
• Three California Families (privately printed), San Francisco, 1976
• The Man Who Killed Mick Jagger [fiction], Little, Brown, Boston, 1977; London 1978
• Going to California [fiction], Coward McCann, New York, 1981; London, 1981
• Architect: The Life and Work of Charles W. Moore, Holt Rinehart Winston, New York, 1984
• The Ultimate Art: Essays around and about Opera, UC Press, Berkeley, 1992
• The Fate of the English Country House, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1997
• The Real Las Vegas [editor], Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1999
• Poems for Sheila (privately printed, 2003)
• in progress: Looking at Cézanne
• Also 350+ articles and reviews.

Phi Beta Kappa 1959; Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1959-61; American Council of Learned Societies grant 1972-3; NEH Grant 1976; Hofer-Fabili Essay Prize 1983; University of California Distinguished Teaching Award 1985; Berkeley Citation 1997; Berkeley Fellow 2004; Hon. member, American Institute of Architects, 2004. Formerly consultant or advisor to Aspen Institute on Communications and Society; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; National Public Radio. Secretary, The Arts Club, Berkeley, 1996-.

Numerous University committee memberships and chairmanships, public lectures, etc. Board member, California Alumni Association, 1996-99.

As Principal-in-Charge, Mark Rios is responsible for the direction and operation of Rios Associates, Inc., which he founded in 1985. (The firm became Rios Clemente Hale studios in 2004.) Since the establishment of the firm, Mr. Rios has directed the design of new building construction, renovation, landscape architecture, interiors, graphics and product design. Project types for the firm include: corporate offices, child-care centers, parks, institutional and municipal projects, and residences. Mr. Rios provides overall leadership for a staff of 30 creative professionals.
The diverse nature of the work, including architecture, landscape architecture, and graphic, interior and furniture design, represents his belief in the comprehensive and collaborative nature of design. He is committed to a creative environment, both for individuals and groups, in a team-oriented studio environment. He prefers to work with clients in that same creative process, to strive together to find what is unique in each project. It is Mr. Rios’ belief that when the client participates as an active team member, the result is an integrated, inventive and appropriate solution.

Over the past 15 years, his firm has won numerous ASLA and AIA Awards, as well as being honored by the Los Angeles Business Council for a number of projects. Rios Associates worked with the L.A. Unified School District to build two new Primary Centers for which they won a National American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award in 2003.

Rios work has been extensively published in magazines, including Metropolitan Home, Architectural Record, Interior Design, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. Additionally, Rios serves on the Board of Advisors of Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Clive Wilkinson AIA RIBA

Clive Wilkinson was born in South Africa in 1954. He was educated in England and South Africa, and studied under Peter Cook and Ron Herron of Archigram, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid at the prestigious Architectural Association in London. In 1984 he became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1992 a member of the American Institute of Architects. After graduating he worked for Farrell & Company for eight years achieving first Associate, and later Design Director, positions in the practice. At the time of leaving England he was Design Director on the largest single office development in the City of London, the $250m Alban Gate development and was featured on the BBC news.

After a background in several highly publicized creative building and interior design projects in Europe, Africa and Australia, including a year working for Frank Gehry, he established his design practice Clive Wilkinson Architects in Los Angeles in 1991. After completing TBWA/Chiat/Day's 'Advertising City' headquarters in 1998, several major companies commissioned the practice for creative projects across the U.S. and in Europe. The firm has to date received twenty major design awards, and their work has been published in numerous design books and magazines internationally, as well as television and radio coverage.