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Jennifer Siegal is known for her work in creating the mobile home of the 21st century. She is founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Office of Mobile Design (OMD), which focuses on designing “non-permanently sited structures that move across and rest lightly upon the land.” Siegal earned a master’s degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1994, and was a 2003 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s School of Design where she explored the use of intelligent, kinetic, and lightweight materials. Her innovative mobile structures include green, prefabricated construction modernist homes; the Mobile EcoLab used to teach students about the environment; and the Portable Construction Training Center created for the Venice Community Housing Corporation. OMD has recently launched a modern-modular product home line called Take Home™.

Ms. Siegal’s work was exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum’s 2003 National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now; the Walker Art Center’s Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life; the 2006 NY Mobile Living Exhibition; and the National Building Museum. Her innovative design sensibilities and expertise in futuristic concepts, prefabricated construction, and green building technologies were recognized by the popular media in 2003 when Esquire magazine named her one of the “Best and Brightest” and the Architectural League of New York included her in the acclaimed Emerging Voices program. In 2006 Fast Company magazine profiled her in “Masters of Design”.

Ms. Siegal is the inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, the editor of Mobile: the Art of Portable Architecture, and Series Editor of Materials Monthly.

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