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Sergura Schreiber will be the architect of record and lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Previously, she was professor at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental
Design where her academic focus was the design of housing environments. Her interdisciplinary
courses in urban design encouraged architecture, landscape, and urban design students to
collaborate and address unsolved problems in the urban environment.
Before Berkeley, she was the founding dean at the University of California at San Diego School of
Architecture and professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Pennsylvania
where she was also chair of the architecture department for six years. She also taught at Harvard
University Graduate School of Design and at Rice University. She has had numerous visiting
appointments through out the United States and the world, including Italy and in her native South
Africa.
Professor Santos holds an AA Diploma from the Architectural Association in London. She also
received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University as well as a Master of
Architecture and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to her academic work, she is principal architect in the San Francisco-based firm,
Santos Prescott and Associates. Her architectural and planning projects include affordable and
luxury housing and institutional buildings in Africa; affordable housing in Japan; the Institute of
Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; the Center for the Arts at Albright College, Reading, PA; the
Yerba Buena Gardens Children's Center in San Francisco; City Links, A Vision Plan for San
Diego; and Franklin/LaBrea Affordable Housing in Hollywood, CA. She recently exhibited in a
solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Dean Santos has received numerous awards and honors including being named Fellow of the
American Institute of Architects in 1996. She has won numerous competitions for projects
including the Perris Civic Center (CA), three facilities at Arts Park (CA), the Affordable
Prototypical Multi-Family Housing for Franklin/LaBrea in Los Angeles, and Penn Children's
Center (PA).
She serves as a juror for numerous national and international design competitions and award
programs and has published extensively in journals and books.
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