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G!LL!S



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Fall 2023
Visiting Professor for Woodbury School of Architecture.
Teaching  Undergraduate Architecture Studio 7 & Build 4:Systems Integration- Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Aviva Rubin, Eric Giragosian, Ciro Dimson, Eric Olson, and Scrap Marshall

Grant Gillis awarded AIA | Los Angeles NextLA Award, Citation for Ceramic Slipways – Renovation of AMOCA
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Summer 2023
Travel Abroad on faculty grant, with Paulette Singley and Donatella Cusma, to establish institional connections in Sicily for futute student abroad courses.
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Spring 2023
Teaching Undergraduate Architecture topic Studio 8: The Work of Architecture in the Age of Computational Labor fabricating a Robot Primitive pavilion with the Tinderbots.

Participated with Under the Skin in Wedge Gallery Exhibition Good Guts.
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Fall 2022
Visiting Professor  and Building Track Coordinator for Woodbury School of Architecture.
Teaching  Undergraduate Architecture Studio 7 & Build 4:Systems Integration- Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Aviva Rubin, Sabrina Ramirez-Diaz, Eric Olson, and Scrap Marshall

Grant Gillis awarded The Architect’s Newspaper 2022 Best of Design in Unbuilt – Cultural Category for Ceramic Slipways – Renovation of AMOCA
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Spring 2022
Construction begins AMOCA with GrantGillis.

Teaching Graduate Architecture courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Studio 4 at Woodbury University.

On panel discussion about Narrative Intelligence at the  WSOA Faculty Talks series.
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Fall 2021
Participating Faculty and Building Track Coordinator for Woodbury School of Architecture.
Teaching  Undergraduate Architecture Studio 7 & Build 4: Systems Integration- Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Jordana Maisie, Daniel Spilman, Eric Olson, and Scrap Marshall
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Summer 2021
Teaching Masters of Interior Architecture  Studio B at UCLA Extension.
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Spring 2021
Grant Gillis commissioned to design renovation of American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)in Pomona, CA.

Teaching Graduate Architecture courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Studio 4 at Woodbury University. 
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Fall 2020
A + D Museum Design Award 2020, On the Floor or Wall - CCC

Teaching  Undergraduate Architecture Studio 7 & Systems Integration- Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Linda Taalman,  Eric Olson, and Scrap Marshall

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Summer 2020
Teaching Masters of Interior Architecture  Studio A at UCLA Extension.
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Spring 2020
Teaching Graduate Architecture courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Studio 4 at Woodbury University.
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Winter 2020
Teaching Masters of Interior Architecture  Studio B at UCLA Extension.
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Fall 2019
Commissioned for design of Fuku Hotel and Shikili Villas, Rasht, Iran.

Teaching  Undergraduate Architecture Studio 4 & Systems Integration- Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Linda Taalman, Eric Olson, and Scrap Marshall.

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Spring 2019
CCC,
selected project for installation in the Unmentionables Symposium 2019.
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Sping 2019
Teaching Undergraduate Architecture Studio 1 - - Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Carmelia Chiang, and Teddy Slowik.
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Fall 2018
Teaching  Undergraduate Architecture Studio 4 & Systems Integration- Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Linda Taalman, Eric Olson, and Scrap Marshall.

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May 2018
Commissioned
for design of addition and interior renovation for artist in Beverly Hills, CA
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April 2018
The Nightingale Floor,  project  installed in WUHO gallery. A collaborative project between G!LL!S & Claret-Cup
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Fall 2017
Teaching Undergraduate  Architecture Studio 1 collaborating with Architecture Studio 1,  - Woodbury University with faculty Heather Flood, Yi-Hsiu Yeh, and Nate Imai.
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October 2017
Commissioned
for design of interior renovation for artist in Venice, CA
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Spring 2017
Nightingale Floor, selected project to be installed in WUHO gallery. A collaborative project between G!LL!S & Claret-Cup.…………………………………………………

Teaching Graduate Architecture courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Studio 4: Wall, Slab, Column..AIr,Water,Movement at Woodbury University.
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November 2016
Interior Urbanism, LA Forum Newsletter, Co-Editor with Jonathan Crisman
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05 October 2016
Calibrating Visocity, Panel Discussion with Anthony Fountenot, Bernika Boberskai and Dontella Cusma at Helms Bakery Design Center, Woodbury Fall Lecture Series Event
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Fall 2016
Teaching Interior Undergraduate  Architecture Studio 1  Woodbury University, collaborating with faculty Heather Flood, Yi-Hsiu Yeh, and Nate Imai.
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18 June – 31 July 2016
Artificial Turf, Materials & Applications TURF: A Mini-GOlf Project Exhibition, Echo Park, CA
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04 May – 24 July 2016
Coordinating Continious Urbanity a FieldWork studio across Japan with Donatella Cusma and Ingalill Walroos-Ritter for the School of Architecture, Woodbury University. Kyoto Seika University hosted a joint student workshop with faculty Takayuki Suzuki, Fumio Hirakawa, and Marina Topunova. Tokyo architects Klein Dytham architecture gave office tour and discussions on practice in Japan
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Spring 2016
Teaching Woodbury University. courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Studio 4: Micro-Urban housing for Veterans with Ed Ogusta at  Woodbury University.
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Fall 2015
TURF Competition Winner, Materials & Applications Los Angeles.
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24 October 2015
Presented Three Dancers on Special Panel for ACADIA2015 conference on Computational Ecologies, Design in the Anthropocene
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22 October – 05 December 2015
Three Dancers part of ECO-DIVERSITY: Computation and Identity exhibition at University of Cincinnati DAAP(UC_DAAP) Reed Gallery for ACADIA 2015 conference.
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Fall 2015
Teaching Undergraduate  Interior Architecture Studio 7: Inside Summer and a co-department research seminar in plastics: Two Chairs and a Table at Woodbury University.
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09 May – 15 June 2015
Coordinating Light Craft a FieldWork studio across Japan with Donatella Cusma for the School of Architecture, Woodbury University. Kyoto Seika University hosted a joint student workshop with faculty Takayuki Suzuki, Fumio Hirakawa, and Marina Topunova. Tokyo architects Yasutaka Yoshimura and Ryuji Nakamura gave office tours and discussions on practice in Japan.
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Spring 2015
Teaching Graduate Architecture courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Studio 4: Maxing and Masquing with Linda Taalman and Ingallil Walhroos-Ritter at Woodbury University .
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Fall 2014
Teaching Undergraduate Interior Architecture Studio 7: Storefront for Radio and a co-department research seminar in plastics: Loose Skins / Tight Bodies at Woodbury University .
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July 2014
Appointed a two year Visiting Assistant Professorship at the Interior Architecture Department, School of Architecture, Woodbury University
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16 May – 20 June 2014
Participating L'escalier, La Porte, La Fenêtre, La Rue a FieldWork studio in Paris and Switzerland with Berenika Boberska and Annie Chu for the School of Architecture, Woodbury University. Parisian artist Damien Valero hosted printmaking workshop utilizing ink and carbon, and Jakob + Macfarlane in Paris and AGPS in Zurich gave current project and architectural office tours.
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10 March 2014
Commissioned for design of interior renovations on Brentwood residence.
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Spring 2014
Adjunct Faculty, Architecture Department Woodbury University participating with Linda Taalman in graduate courses Building 4:Integrated Environmental Systems and Interior Architecture department Studio 4:Branding and Identity
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18 December 2013
Consulting services provided to DSH Architects for adaptive reuse office building to charter school.
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December 2013
Published, Interior Design, “Best of Year– Exhibition,” Dec 2013
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November 2013
Co-Editor, Editorial Statement: “Public. Civic. Urban. Community”, LA Forum Newsletter
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Fall 2013
Adjunct Faculty, Interior Architecture Department Woodbury University teaching undergraduate Studio 7: Refigure/ Reflect
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2 August 2013
Commissioned for design of landscape and interior renovations on Eagle Rock residence.
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July- August 2013
Part of preparations and exhibit team for UNFINISHED BUSINESS a 25 year retrospective of Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design in the WUHO gallery on Hollywood Blvd.
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January 2013
Invited and accepted as Board member to the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design, a service of five years.
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Spring 2013
1B Visual Studies Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-ARC
Digital Media Faculty, OTIS College of Art and Design, Departments of Architecture/ Landscape/Interiors
Adjunct Faculty, Architecture Department Woodbury University participating with Linda Taalman in graduate course Building 4: Environmental Systems and co-teaching with Philip Ra graduate Studio 4: Cinematic Spatiality’s.
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29 November 2012
Lecturing on the topic “Forge, Forage, Fabricate” for the Out There Doing It Series by LA Forum for Architecture and Design In same series as David Freeland, Bernika Boberska, and Claus Freyinger.
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12 October 2012
Presenting the lecture, “Material Agency” at the A + A3 Architecture Lecture Series for Miami Dade College in the
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10 September 2012
Commissioned for design and permitting of Hollywood Hills residential hardscape and landscape design.
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24 August 2012
Commissioned to design tenant improvement interiors for health care management in West Los Angeles.
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27 February 2012
Commissioned for design and permitting of Playhouse and landscape design in Culver City.
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Fall 2012
Adjunct Faculty , Interior Architecture Department Woodbury University teaching with Christoph Korner undergraduate Studio 7: Living Dead
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Spring 2012
1B Studio and Visual Studies Faculty with Rob Ley and Greg Walsh, Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-ARC
Digital Media Faculty, OTIS College of Art and Design, Departments of Architecture/ Landscape/Interiors
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04 January 2012
Awarded Winning Entry for 2012 AIA/LA Exhibit Design Competition project – Taut.
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