Eva Maddox Book Signing

Eva L. Maddox, FIIDA, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP ID +C

Eva Maddox is the consulting principal of Eva Maddox Design Strategies, retired design principal of Perkins + Will, and founder of Perkins + Will /Eva Maddox Branded Environments. From 1975 to 2001 Maddox was principal of Eva Maddox Associates. Maddox has received more than two hundred design excellence awards. Elected into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1992, she was honored with the Contract Legend Award in 2011. She was named “Chicagoan of the Year” in 2001 and was selected as Purpose Prize Fellow in 2007 and 2008. In 1994 Maddox and Stanley Tigerman cofounded Archeworks, a multidisciplinary design school that provides innovative design solutions to social needs. Maddox has written extensively and lectured at schools of architecture and design worldwide. She is coauthor of 50 Under 50: Innovators of the 21st Century. Maddox received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati School of Design, Architecture Art, and Planning and was awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts by the University of Cincinnati and Kendall College of Art and Design.

The book, EVA MADDOX Innovator Designer Educator was written with Romy Wyllie and released in 2017.

“Praised as a “visionary design theorist and practitioner,” Eva Maddox pioneered the branding of interior spaces and originated the theory of patterning. This comprehensive monograph traces her creative journey from a tiny town in rural Tennessee to her own renowned firm, Eva Maddox Associates, to a dedicated branding studio with the international architectural practice Perkins + Will. Profusely illustrated with sketches, plans, and stunning color photographs, the book details the evolution of thirty-five major projects – colleges, hospitals, financial institutions, corporate headquarters, museums, showroom, and more – culminating in a brand strategy and headquarters design for furniture and workspace giant Haworth. Maddox’s accomplishment stretch beyond design to extensive endeavors in education, including cofounding Archeworks in Chicago. Eva Maddox was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1992 and received Contract’s Legend Award for lifetime achievement in 2011.”

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