Sarah Lorenzen

Sarah Lorenzen, AIA is a registered architect and Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. From 2007-2020 she served as resident director of the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences located in Los Angeles. Her practice Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture (TOLO) focuses on residential, commercial, and Arts-related projects.

Sarah grew up in Mexico City, where she attended a British school before moving to the U.S. to attend college. She did her undergraduate work at Smith College and at the Atlanta College of Art (BFA 1992), and received a Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (M.Arch 1997.) In 2004 she completed a second Masters in Metropolitan Research and Design at SCI-Arc (M.Arch MR+D.) Sarah has received a number of design awards and grants including a Fulbright Fellowship, several Graham Foundation grants, and a six-week travel fellowship to China. In 2011-2012 Sarah took a one-year sabbatical leave to do research at TU Delft in the Netherlands. Her research at TU Delft focused on the ways in which new mapping technologies are changing how we understand and intervene in the built environment. Prior to pursuing her own research and creative projects, Sarah was a project architect at MBT Architecture in San Francisco (now Perkins+Will) and at Lord, Aeck and Sargent in Atlanta. In 2015 Sarah was an AIA LA Presidential Honoree, receiving their "Educator of the Year" award. SHe serves on the board of ACLA (the non-profit wing of AIA LA), is the chair of AIA LA Government Outreach Committee (GO!), and was on the board of directors of AIA LA from 2018-2021.

• Architect, Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture (TOLO)