Architect Jennifer Siegal To Speak At Palm Springs Art Museum

Siegal is known for her work in creating the mobile home of the 21st century. She is founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Office of Mobile Design (OMD), which focuses on designing "non-permanently sited structures that move across and rest lightly upon the land." Her projects have been profiled in publications such as the New York Times and Esquire magazine. Siegal's innovative mobile structures include customized, prefab Modernist homes; the Mobile Eco Lab that was used to teach area students about the environment; and the Portable Construction Training Center that was created for the Venice Community Housing Corporation. Take Home, Siegal's new high quality, high end desert retreats are being deployed in Desert Hot Springs.

Siegal's projects were featured in her book, Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002). Siegal, who was previously a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Design School, earned her bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and master of architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

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