Rachel Allen (architect)

Allen began her architectural career in San Francisco at the age of 16, hired on the basis of handmade drawings from classes taken at the De Young Museum of Art.^[4] She went on to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton (A.B. and M. Arch. degrees) and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She was hired out of school by Gehry Partners where she worked for five years and is a winner of the American Academy's prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture.^[3]

Allen has taught architecture at UCLA, SCI-Arc, Woodbury University School of Architecture in Burbank, California, and the University of Southern California (USC). She is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Urban Land Institute, and a graduate of Goldman Sachs 10K Small Businesses Program.

Allen's firm has designed single and multi-family residential projects in Carpinteria, Echo Park, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, and Riverside.^[5] RADAR has also designed commercial and institutional projects in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Miami, and Mexico. In 2019 her firm was awarded the Southern California Development Forum (SCDF) award for Urban Innovation for Libros Schmibros, a free lending library in Boyle Heights.^[6]

Allen is married to Chicago-born conceptual artist Guerino (Gary) Cannone and has one daughter.^{[citation needed]}