Galia Solomonoff
Galia Solomonoff is an architect and the founding creative director of New York-based architecture and design firm Solomonoff Architecture Studio. Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for international institutional projects.
Galia Solomonoff

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- Name
- Galia Solomonoff
- Born
- 1968
- Birthplace
- Rosario, Santa Fe
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Occupation
- painter · architect
- Education
- Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and Preservation · National University of Rosario · New York University · Instituto Politécnico Superior
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Galia Solomonoff is an architect and the founding creative director of New York-based architecture and design firm Solomonoff Architecture Studio. Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for international institutional projects.
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• Name — Galia Solomonoff • Born — 1968 • Birthplace — Rosario, Santa Fe
Biography
Biography
Solomonoff received her master's degree in Architecture from Columbia University, where she was awarded the McKim Prize for Excellence in Design and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, and her Sc.B. in Architecture from the City College of New York in 1991. Prior to founding SAS, Solomonoff worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Rafael Viñoly, and Bernard Tschumi Architects, as well as OpenOffice. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, Cooper Union, Yale University, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Solomonoff is the recipient of two AIA Design Awards, grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and recognition in the Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices series. She has been featured in the New York Times, New York Magazines premiere issue of editor Wendy Goodman's stand-alone Design Hunting, More Magazine, and Designers & Books. In 2007, New York named her part of New York's "next garde".
Selected projects
Selected projects
• Dia:Beacon • Kaffe 1668 • Lillian Ball Studio • Tribeca Apartment • Park Avenue South Lobby Renovation • East Village Condominiums • Brooklyn Townhouse and Photography Studio • Chelsea Loft • West Village Carriage House
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1966
Galia Solomonoff was born in 1966.
Selected publications
• Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering, eds. Michael Bell and Craig Buckley (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012) • Public Housing: A New Conversation (New York: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, 2009) • Layered Urbanisms: Gregg Pasquarelli / Galia Solomonoff / Mario Gooden (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008) • Latin American Architecture: Six Voices (Studies in Architecture and Culture, No 5) • “Defecting Fame,” Perspecta 37 (2005): 122-130

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- 1.Bienal 2022: Galia Solomonoff, una argentina en Nueva York.
- 2.Una fraternidad rosarina en Nueva York.
- 3.GALIA SOLOMONOFF 1966.
- 4.When ‘Live-Work’ No Longer Works. 0362-4331.
- 5.New York Design Hunting - A Greenwich Village Townhouse Designed by Galia Solomonoff -- New York Magazine - Nymag.
- 6.Galia Solomonoff's Book List.
- 7.The Next Wave of Designers - Home Design Spring 2007 -- New York Magazine - Nymag.
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