Brett Terpeluk
Brett has collaborated for 10 years in Genoa, Italy with the Pritzker Prize winning architect Renzo Piano with whom he managed the design and construction of Aurora Place Towers (Sydney, Australia), The Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, Texas), and the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, California), a Leed Platinum project considered one of the most sustainably advanced buildings in the world. Studio Terpeluk, Brett’s design practice founded in 2007, has seen the completion of several projects including the restaurant Farina in San Francisco and was recently published as part of a select group of emergent Californian design practices. He is a board member of San Francisco’s Center for Architecture and Design and has been involved in many non-profit initiatives such as designing a pavilion for Slow Food Nation and the exhibits for San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Center (SPUR).
Brett received his BA from Princeton University and his Masters from Rice University where, as an academic fellow, he received the Fossi travelling fellowship for best student project. He has taught and lectured internationally on themes of architecture and sustainability and has participated as a panelist for Greenbuild 2008, a preeminent convention for sustainable technologies. Brett was recently a Friedman Professor at University of Berkeley’s School of Architecture and his coursework for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco was awarded the 2006 NCARB Prize, the nation’s second highest academic award in architecture. He is a contributing writer for the Italian architectural publications Casabella and Parametro. Brett is married to landscape designer Monica Viarengo and is fluent in Italian.
