Katherine Lambert, AIA, IIDA, is a founding principal of MAP, Metropolitan Architectural Practice, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. MAP has realized numerous commercial and private projects throughout the USA based on a long-standing commitment to progressive architectural aesthetics, sustainable construction, and research in new technologies. All have ensured a practice grounded in design innovation and sustainable practices.

She authored “Dirt Manifesto” published initially online and then in Architecture Magazine in 1997. This was a bellwether call to the architectural profession to meld and prioritize progressive design principles with a forecasting of sustainable practices.

Her projects have been widely published in journals and periodicals such as Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, ID, Metropolis, and Interior Design. Her work can be found in International collections such as the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Dia Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Lambert is a Professor of Architecture and chaired the Interior Architecture program at California College of the Arts for several years. Her graduate studies in architecture were at UCLA, and she has been a visiting critic at such institutions as UC- Berkeley, INCITE research Institute, and Royal College of Art and Goldsmith College, University of London. She has served on the Board of Trustees for the San Francisco Art Institute and the Theatre Artaud, both in San Francisco .

Today, she continues to advance innovative responses to new projects through an ever-evolving and wide-angle lens of promising approaches to progressive design principles.