Design, Bitches

Co-founded by Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph in 2010, Design, Bitches is a Los Angeles-based firm which advocates for architecture that is strongly connected to everyday life. ‘Human interaction is key’, says this young American firm. The office’s multidisciplinary team has set their sights on expanding their scope, scale and geographic span. Current projects include Mountain House, nestled in a canyon outside of Los Angeles, and Atwater House, a warm and modern family home in central California.
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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