INFORMATION Design Philosophy Victoria Casasco Education Teaching Lectures Books Publications Exhibitions Awards Honors Selected Projects      PROJECTS Planning and Research     Interactive City     Scottsdale PUD     Arizona Town Center     Jersey City Civic and Commercial     101 Freeway Cityscape     Music Center     Armory Center     Intar Gallery     13 Acres Dwelling     Appell     Aznar     Sinoway     Buehler     Oak Pass

EDUCATION

• 1983 Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture and Planning
  Master of Architecture, Minor Urban Design, 1979-1983
• 1978 Rhode Island School of Design
  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Sculpture, 1974-1978
• 1978 Rhode Island School of Design
  European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
• 1977 Harvard University
  Graduate School of Design, Career Discovery Program, Summer

AWARDS, GRANTS

• 2001 Whitney Griswold Grant, Whitney Humanities Center Yale University
  The School & Park as a Living Organism, British Columbia
• 1996 ‘40 Under 40’ National Design Award Recipient
• 1993 The New York Architectural League, ‘Young Architects Award’
• 1985 The New York Chapter, AIA, Design Award
  Ashkenazi Residence, Design Team, Robert A. M. Stern Architects
• 1985 Interiors Award, Recreation and Entertainment Design
  International House Pub, Design Team, Robert A. M. Stern Architects
• 1984 Progressive Architecture, Urban Planning Citation
  Town of Seaside, Design Team, Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects
• 1977 European Honors Award of Excellence in Sculpture
  Rhode Island School of Design

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• 1999 Outdoor Rooms, Rockport Publishers, Author Julie Taylor
• 1998 Amazing Space, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Author Lucy Rosenfeld
• 1997 From the Center, Monacelli Press, Design in Process, SCIArc
• 1996 Architecture after Modernism, Thames and Hudson, Author Diane Ghirardo
• 1996 40 Under 40, Vitae Press, Editor Beverly Russell
• 1995 Casas International, # 35, Kliczkowski Pub, Spain, Editor Oscar Riera
• 1992 Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles, Rizzoli Int., Editor Aaron Betsky
• 1992 Seaside, Princeton Press, Editors Keller Easterling & David Mohney
• 1991 From the Edge, Southern California Inst. of Architecture Publication
  

MAGAZINES

• 2001 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture, ‘New Haven, Architecture and the Automobile’
• 2000 Constructs, Yale School of Architecture, ‘Architecture as Environmental Art’
• 1997 Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, ‘Architecture in Balance: 7 Southern California Architects’
• 1996 l’industria italiana del Cemento, ‘Aznar Residence’
• 1995 Interiors Magazine, ‘40 Under 40’, September
• 1995 LA Architect, AIA, ‘Southland Revisions’
• 1994 l’ Arca, volume 85, ‘Aznar Residence’, September
• 1993 LA Architect, AIA, ‘Women in Architecture’
• 1992 Casa Vogue, Espana, ‘Aznar Residence’, June
• 1992 Architektur & Wohnen, ‘Appell Residence’, April
• 1992 House Beautiful, ‘Booth Bath’, November
• 1992 Los Angeles Magazine, ‘The Best of LA.’, November
• 1992 From the Edge, Southern California Inst. of Architecture Publication 1992 Architecture, ‘On the Boards’, Sinoway Residence
• 1992 Square, ‘Ideas in Art and Architecture’, San Francisco, May
• 1991 Los Angeles Magazine, ‘Young Turks’, May
• 1991 A & V, Architectura y Vivienda, ‘Los Angeles’, # 32
• 1990 Metropolitan Home, ‘Appell Residence’, July
• 1989 Architectural Record, ‘Seaside’, July
• 1989 M. Magazine, ‘Forget NY.’ Booth Bath, August
• 1987 Progressive Architecture, ‘MxLapena / Torres Architects’, February

TEACHING

1999-prs. Yale University, Assistant Professor

• Graduate Core Design Studio: 2nd Year 'A Waterfront Commuter Terminal', Fall 1999 ‘Women’s Museum’, Fall 2000
• Graduate Advanced Studio: 'City Museum Cultural Complex', Spring 2000
• Undergraduate Seminar: The Analytic Model, Case Studies in Architecture, Fall 1999-prs.
• Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

1996 University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Associate Professor

• Graduate Topic Studio: ‘St. Vibiana’s Cathedral: Light, Music & Landscape’

1989-95 Southern California Institute of Architecture, Associate Professor

• Graduate Advanced Studios:

• ‘The Constructed Desert: From Land Form to City Form, Lancaster,Mohave Desert
• Vertical Urban Topic Studios, co-taught w/ Mike Davis
• ‘Revitalizing Chrenshaw-Adam’s District’, Study for Mayor Bradley’s Office
• ‘Recycling the Throw Away City’, 100 Acre Redevelopment Study
• First and Second Year Core Graduate Studios

• Undergraduate Studios
• Second & Third Year Core Studios
• Third Year Topic Studio: ‘Building & Urbanism in the Sonoran Desert
• Urban Theory Seminars: ‘The History of Cities, from the Neolithic to the 20th Century’
• Thesis Advisor, Graduate and Undergraduate

1994 Arizona State University, Visiting Associate Professor

Graduate Urban Design Topic Studio: ‘From Land Form to Built Form, Neighborhood Commercial Districts for NE Scottsdale, Arizona’, 160 Acre Study

1992 University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Assistant Professor

Graduate Topic Studio, ‘The Constructed Desert, an Arizona Case Study’, 80 Acre Study

1988-90, 1996 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Assistant Professor

Graduate Topic Studios
Thesis Design Studio, individual Thesis conceptualization & development
Undergraduate Studios
Second & Third Year Core Building Studios

1987-88 Mississippi State University, Visiting Assistant Professor

Assistant Director of ‘Small Town Graduate Planning Program’
Graduate Studio Coordinator & Second Year Design Studio

LECTURES

• 2002 ACSA International Conference, Topic Chair & Moderator, Havana, Cuba,
  ‘Art, Architecture, and Globalization’
• 2000 CLEA USA, Council of Latin American Students of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Projects in Architecture and Town Planning’
• 1997 A.I.A. Urban Design Committee, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Town Planning & Design Guidelines’
• 1996 University of California Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Recent Projects in Architecture and Town Planning’
• 1996 Pacific Design Center, West Week 96, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Conversations w/Architects’, w/ participants; Myers, Ehrlich, Fisher, Yazdani, Niles & Schweitzer
• 1996 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
  ‘From Landform to Built Form’
• 1995 Pacific Design Center, West Week 95, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Design in the West’, Joseph Giovannini moderator w/ Panelist Saitowitz, Cutler, Norton
• 1993 The Architectural League of New York, New York, NY
  ‘Ten Years of Practice’
• 1992 University of Texas at Austin, TX
  ‘Recent Projects’
• 1992 Association for Women in Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Broadening the Discourse’, California Women in Environmental Design, Conference
• 1991 A.I.A./ LA; University of California Los Angeles, CA
  'Exploring the Intersection of Feminism & Values in Architecture’, Julia Morgan Colloquium
• 1991 Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia
  ‘Recent Projects’
• 1991 Southern California Institute of Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
  ‘Recent Projects’ followed by a debate w/ Stanley Tigerman
• 1991 A.I.A. Lecture Series, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘The City’
• 1990 Los Angeles Forum for Urban Design, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Buildings, Projects, & Planning Research’
• 1990 Auburn University, Auburn, AL
  ‘Recent Projects’
• 1990 Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ
  ‘From Abstraction to the Figural, Recent Projects’
• 1989 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
  ‘Issues of the 90’s’, panelist & paper
• 1988 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
  ‘Recent Projects’
• 1988 Louisiana Tech University, LA
  ‘Recent Projects’
• 1987 University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
  ‘The Continuing Search for a Florida Vernacular’, panelist & paper

EXHIBITIONS

• 1999 Intar Gallery, New York City, New York
  ‘Traffic Light Series’
• 1997 The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
  ‘Architecture in Balance’, Six California Architects, Curated by Richard Corsini
• 1996 Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Chairs designed by Architects & Designers’
• 1995 Pacific Design Center, LA A.I.A., Los Angeles, CA
  ’100 Projects 100 Firms 100 Years’
• 1994 Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, CA
  ’Southland Revisions’, Curated by Richard Corsini
• 1993 LA International Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Los Angeles Architects’, Installation & Firms work
• 1993 The New York Architectural League, Urban Center, New York, NY
  ‘Young Architects Award Recipients’, Group Exhibition
• 1993 Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
  'International Architectural Drawing Exhibition’
• 1993 UCLA Design Center, LA AIA, Los Angeles, CA
  ‘Los Angeles Architects & Designers’
• 1992 UCLA Design Center, LA AIA, Los Angels, CA
  ‘Los Angeles on the Move’
• 1991 Palazzo Dell’Arte, Triennale, Milan, Italy
  ‘California Architects’, Salon International de l’Architectura
• 1978 Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy,
  ‘Sculptors’, Group Show
• 1977 Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
  ‘Sculptors and Painters’, Group Show
• 1977 P.S.I. Artist Center, New York, New York,
  ‘Minimalist Sculptors’, Group Show
• 1975 Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island,
  ‘Sculptors’, Group Show

SELECTED PROJECTS

COMMERCIAL

Leipziger Platz
Berlin, Germany
A 60,000 SF ten story commercial building with four levels of residential, six levels of commercial- retail space and two below level parking areas.
Client: Erhard Ellenberger, DG Immobilien Bank

Music Center
Seoul, Korea
A 65,000 SF six story commercial/ retail building with six upper level practice studios, a one hundred person lower level string instrument auditorium and parking.
Client: Shinsa LLP

Ibiza Restaurant
Los Angeles, California
A 4,500 S.F. restaurant
Client: Scott Wood

Darymple Production Studio
Los Angeles, California
Lighting installations & interiors.
Client: Robert Darymple

Bud & Alley’s Oyster Bar
Seaside, Florida
A steel and canvas structure located on the beach with a bar and seating area for 20.
Client: Robert Davis

Sip and Dip Bar
Seaside, Florida
A bar and concession for the Town of Seaside.
Client: Robert Davis

COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH MILLA, CORREA ARCHITECTS:

Tamarita Apartment Building
Barcelona, Spain
Project Designer of a four Story, 86,000 S.F. building to house 18 duplex apartment units with below level parking.
Client: Eduardo Canoa, Developer

La Caixa Apartment Building
Barcelona, Spain
Project Designer for a eight story, 63 unit apartment building with a 9,000 S.F. ground level bank and retail center.
Client: Banco La Caixa

PLANNING

Liberty Harbor North
Jersey City, New Jersey
A 100 acre neighborhood mixed use plan with pedestrian focus. 1,700 residential units, parking, office, retail and civic uses. Consultant for Duany PlatterZyberk Architects.
Client: Peter Mocco

Arizona Neighborhood Residential Plan
Scottsdale, Arizona
A 20 acre neighborhood residential plan with pedestrian & environmental focus. 100 residential units, a community center, and public trails. Market research, economic studies, environmental research & pro-formas developed in office.
Client: Adelheid Buehler Casasco

Public Street Design Consultant for the City of Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona
Analysis of street widths, curb cuts, turning radii dimensions, vegetated islands in the public right of way, & pedestrian focused streets for the city of Scottsdale.
Client: Department of Transportation, Engineering & Planning, City of Scottsdale.

Crenshaw District Planning Study, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California.
A 12 block neighborhood planning study requested by the Los Angeles Mayors Office to revitalize a twelve block area.
Client: Los Angels Mayors Office, Mayor Bradley

Seaside Town Architect, Victoria Casasco
Seaside Town Parking Analysis, Sidewalks and Pedestrian Crossings
Seaside, Florida
Master plan of future parking capacity for residential and commercial sections of the town.
Client: Robert Davis, Developer

PLANNING PROJECTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH
ANDRES DUANY & ELIZABETH PLATTER-ZYBERK ARCHITECTS

Town of Seaside
Seaside, Florida
Design team consultant for the master plan and zoning code of a new town. An 80 acre site with 1/2 mile beachfront subdivided into 350 lots for single family homes, a retail center, conference facilities and recreation area.
Client: Robert Davis, Developer

Nance Canyon Project
Chico California
6,800 new town in Chico, California. Environmental issues in new town planning setting a precedent for future growth areas. Consultant for Duany Platter-Zyberk Architects
Client: Blakely, Swartz , Developers

CIVIC & INSTITUTIONAL

13 Acre Public Park & School
East Clayton, British Columbia
As lead architects we worked in collaboration with Balmori & Associate, landscape architects, for the design of a new regional Public Park and elementary school. A sustainable demonstration site, the joint programs embrace principles of pedestrian communities including shared streets. Local ecology & climate are embraced in the design process, with onsite 'event structures' providing creative environmental teaching tools for the school.
Client: East Clayton Regional Committee, City of Surrey, University of British Columbia

101 Freeway Bridge Competition
Los Angeles, California
As Lead Architects we were short listed for the design of a new 5 million dollar bridge spanning the 101 freeway. Pedestrian planning & proposed future retail office space was included.
Client: Metropolitan Transit Authority, Los Angeles

Seaside Public Branch Library
Seaside, Florida
A 10,000 S.F. library which serves as a branch to the Defuniak-Walton County Library.
Client: Defuniak-Walton County Library & Robert Davis

Inlet Beach Fire Station
Walton County, Florida
A 15,000 S.F. firehouse with 6 engine bays, 8 dormitories, offices, and a meeting hall.
Client: Walton County Fire Department

Water Pumping Station
Seaside, Florida
A water circulation pump station for the Town of Seaside.
Client: Robert Davis

Dartmouth College Arts Center
Hanover, New Hampshire
A competition for a 225,000 S.F. addition to an existing gallery and historic structure on the site.housing art studios, a library, exhibition spaces, and administrative offices.
Client: Dartmouth College

Public Library
New York City, N.Y.
A 15,000 sf. neighborhood library adjacent to an elementary school housing separate adult and children’s libraries, public theater, music center, and a park.
Client: The Greenwich Village Community Organization

Middle School
Barcelona, Spain
A 25,000 S.F. private school with indoor sports area, lecture rooms, cafeteria, and auditoriums.
Client: Comunidad de Ciudad Diagonal

Christian Meeting House
Hicksville, New York
Design for a 2,500 S.F. addition to an existing church.
Client: Christian Association

RESIDENTIAL

Schaeffer Residence
Durham, North Carolina
Residence in process
Client: Jim & Tammy Schaeffer

Shak Residence
Los Angeles, California
Residence in process
Client: Joseph Shak

Chao Studio
Venice, California
Painting Studio & residence in process
Client: Steven Chao & Irina Aliminastiau

80’ Chris Craft, Tania
Los Angeles, California
Interiors of an 80’ Chris Craft.
Client: Ruth Bettelheim

Hornick Residence
Los Angeles, California
A 3,000 S.F. private home
Client: John Hornick

Stewart Residence
Los Angeles, California
A 6,500 S.F. private home
Client: Susan and Herb Stewart

Buehler Residence
Lake Forest, Illinois
A 6,000 S.F. private home
Client: Mignon Buehler

Sinoway Residence
Venice, California
A 2,600 S.F. private home.
Client: Mitchel Sinoway

Booth Residence
Santa Monica, California
A 6,000 S.F. private home.
Client: David and Suzanne Booth

Davis Residence Renovation
Seaside , Florida
A 2,000 S.F. interior renovation of an existing home.
Client: Robert Davis

Kaye Residence, Sanscasas
Walton County, Florida
A 2,400 S.F. private home on Camp Creek, Walton County.
Client: Marion Kaye

Appell Residence
Seaside, Florida
A 2,400 S.F. private home.
Client: Roger Appell

Aznar Residence, Casasco-Garcia-Delgado Architects
Barcelona, Spain
A 5,600 S.F. single family four level home extending across
1 acre site with a 1,000 S.F. pool.
Client: Pedro Aznar

Stillman Residence
New York, New York
Design for a 1,600 S.F. loft into a gallery and residence.
Client: Whit and Irene Stillman