President and Design Director, Clive Wilkinson Architects
www.clivewilkinson.com
Judging Category: Environments
Clive Wilkinson is an architect, designer, writer and strategist with particular expertise in the application of urban design thinking to workplace and educational communities. He was born in South Africa and educated in the United Kingdom. His practice, Clive Wilkinson Architects, was established in Los Angeles in 1991, and is an acknowledged global leader in workplace design.
Clive’s background includes extensive experience with the design of cutting edge projects on four continents—most notably in creative office space, educational facilities and high tech office development projects. His clients are some of the world’s most creative and leading edge companies and institutions, including Google, Nokia, Accenture, BBC, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Vitra, UCLA and the Macquarie Group. Since its inception, the practice has received over 75 design awards, and is published regularly in a variety of global media.
A member of both the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects, Clive is also a former Board Director of the American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles. In 2005, Clive was inducted into the Interior Design ‘Hall of Fame’. In 2006, he was named as a ‘Master of Design’ by Fast Company magazine and, recently, as a 2011 ‘Pioneer of Design’ by the IIDA NC. He has served as a keynote speaker at global media, advertising and design conferences, and has contributed to radio and television shows on architecture and design affairs. Clive’s work was selected in both 2010 and 2011 as a Finalist in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Design Awards.
