March 14th, 2024

Amanda Nicole Bridges AIA, NOMA, LEED AP

Amanda Nicole Bridges, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP is an undergraduate studio instructor and licensed architect in California. She is currently a Senior Architect at Siol Stuidos in San Francisco, an integrated architecture, interiors, and landscape design practice, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley
Amanda has worked on a range of large scale urban projects, commercial buildings, snd custom homes throughout the US, including projects with Skidmore Owings and Merrill, KieranTimberlake, and Woods Dangaran. Her work as a Board Member of the Architectural Foundation of SF and committee member of NOMA and NAACP's CESBS focuses on mentorship and instilling sustainable projects with a specific sense of community, dignity, and place. Amanda has been speaker at the NetZero Conference, BuildingGreen, Yale Women in Architecture, and on other organizational panels. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University and her M.Arch at Yale University's School of Architecture, where she received the Yen and Dolly Liang academic award. On weekends, Amanda enjoys running, hiking, and live music. 

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working toward a cultural shift

As we each continue to navigate architecture’s firm, academic, and non-profit spheres, how can we balance mixing, acquiescing to, confronting, and reimagining our culture together toward meaningful change? In an era defined by rapid growth and change, the field of architecture is ripe for the industry disruption that we have seen shift other fields in recent decades. Our industry is defined by looking ahead; how are we culturally a century behind?