The magazine:

Madame Architect is a digital magazine and media start-up celebrating the extraordinary women worldwide who design our cities, advance cultural conversations, and ultimately shape our world for the better in unique and forward-thinking ways. We’ve covered hundreds of professionals — including students and emerging entrepreneurs — across the ecosystem of city-making, including in architecture, design, engineering, policy, climate solutions, media and more. Our verticals include feature profiles, day-in-the-life write ups, team interviews, and historical essays. We also run an event series, “Madame Architect Presents,” where we speak with architects and clients in the spaces they’ve respectively designed and commissioned.

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PITCHES

For pitches, please email hello@madamearchitect.org. We’d love to hear about professionals with unique career paths who are also spearheading game-changing and contemporary initiatives for environmental and social good; up-and-coming entrepreneurs who are rethinking traditional models of practice; and students who demonstrate exceptional promise in advancing the profession.

Pitch Guidelines:

If sending a pitch, please include the following:

1. Link to the individual’s company website and “About” pages and/or social media profiles (LinkedIn and Instagram).

2. An outline of their engagement with climate solutions, advocacy initiatives, and support of the next generation, especially initiatives they’ve started and/or are spearheading.

3. An outline of the unique path they’ve taken that’s not traditionally represented.

4. Photographs of their work in the natural and built environment.

By submitting your pitch, you confirm that you (and/or the person you are representing) is willing to be interviewed by the Madame Architect team, has rights to share images representing them and/or their work, and grants permission to Madame Architect to be published across it’s platforms.

Please note that everyone on our team works in professional practice full-time; the team is ultra-dedicated. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are not able to respond personally to every pitch.

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the Team:

Julia Gamolina - Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Julia Gamolina is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Madame Architect. Trained as an architect herself and with over a decade of experience across all aspects of design, business development, and communications, Julia is also an Associate Principal at Ennead Architects and teaches graduate professional practice and media courses at Pratt Institute.

In 2024, Madame Architect received the AIANY Architecture in Media Award. In 2024 and 2023, Julia was listed in the Wallpaper* USA 300, a list of the people defining America’s creative landscape. Julia also received the Special Citation from AIANY in 2019 for her work with Madame Architect. Her writing has been featured in A Women's Thing, Fast Company, Metropolis Magazine, and the Architect's Newspaper, and she serves on the advisory board for Untapped New York's Journalism Fellowship.

Julia has lectured widely, across college campuses such as Harvard, Mount Holyoke, and UCLA; at international conferences like the Women, Architecture and Sustainability Congress in Bogota and the 2023 UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen; and at events such as the New York Architecture Film Festival. She also organizes "Madame Architect Presents," Madame Architect's event series where she interviews architects in the spaces they designed.

Julia earned her Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University, graduating with the Charles Goodwin Sands Medal for exceptional thesis. She was born in Novosibirsk, raised in Toronto, and is based in New York City, having also lived and worked in Austria, Italy, and Brazil. Visit www.juliagamolina.com for more, and follow Julia at @julia.gamolina.

SYDNE NANCE - editorial assistant & ARCHIVIST

Sydne Nance, an architectural professional, contributes her expertise in Henning Larsen’s New York studio. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at NJIT. She is active in industry organizations, American Institute of Architects (AIA) and National Organization for Minority Architects (NOMA), and commits to improving the broader architectural community. In 2023, Sydne was the honored with the Associate of the Year award through the AIA New Jersey Chapter.

Driven by her passion for increasing diversity in the field of architecture and design, Sydne advocated for her peers through her involvement in the American Institute of Architecture Students. In her final year as an undergraduate, she served as chapter president of the AIAS chapter, and later was a juror for the AIAS Honor Awards. During her time in college, Sydne also competed for NJIT’s women’s track & field team, and became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the first greek-letter organization to be established by African American women. She values mentorship and has mentored two cohorts of first year architecture and design students from her university’s Educational Opportunity Program. She was previously an architectural associate at Studio 1200, where her professional work focused on improving residential and commercial interiors through thoughtful design. She is based in New Jersey. Follow Sydne at @sydnn.

Gail Kutac - copyeditor & contributor

With fifteen years of experience in the A/E industry, Gail Kutac is a Business Development Manager at Olson Kundig in New York City. Prior to joining Olson Kundig, Gail held various roles in new business and marketing for Silman, Rockwell Group, Perkins Eastman, and Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn. Gail began her career after completing a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. After three years as a landscape designer in Dallas, designing public spaces and parks, Gail transitioned to the marketing and business development niche within the industry, where her joy of reading, editing, and critical thinking are leveraged by her training and experience as a designer.

In her professional roles, Gail has been a supporter of the people working both at the forefront and behind-the-scenes to create the built environment—many of them women—and is excited to play a part in helping their stories get told. Outside of work, Gail is a member of Professional Women in Construction and enjoys attending lectures hosted by the Architectural League. Gail lives in Jersey City, NJ, with her husband and son, where during the warmer parts of the year, they can be found tending to or enjoying their patio garden.

CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS:

Patrick dimond - editor

A lifelong appetite for houses, communities, and traditions led Patrick to architecture school and, presently, the communications and public relations department at Multistudio. Patrick is a taleteller and a listener, a chronicler of the accounts that designers have the opportunity to share.

In 2016 Patrick graduated from Marquette University with a degree in corporate communication. While at Marquette, he worked alongside Mellon Fellow Dr. Louise Cainkar and researched the architecture of mosques in a midwestern urban context.

Shortly after graduation, he enrolled alongside the inaugural class at Indiana University's J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program in Columbus, Indiana. He spent summers interning at studios Hendricks Churchill in Sharon, Connecticut, and Brent Buck Architects in Brooklyn, New York. His capstone concentrating on funerary architecture won JIMAP's Outstanding Design Award for Architecture in 2021. 

When he's not reading about or gawking at buildings in New Orleans, you can find him on his porch learning to paint. Follow Patrick at @patdimond.

Kate Reggev — Columnist, In Ink

Kate Reggev is an architect, project manager, historian, and educator with a love for the built environment — old, new, and everything in between. As an Assistant Project Manager at Zubatkin Owner Representation, she works with cultural and civic institutions to meaningfully and strategically renovate, maintain, and expand their buildings. Prior to her time at Zubatkin, she was an Associate at the New York office of Beyer Blinder Belle and worked on projects including New York Public Library, The Frick Collection, and The Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

Her belief in the power of design to change and enhance lives extends to her work as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she teaches in the Preservation program. She lectures about preservation and architectural history across the country and also writes about design for Architectural Digest, Dwell, and other industry publications. She holds a Master of Architecture and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, cum laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University. When she’s not deep down a rabbit hole of historic photos on Urban Archive, you can find her sitting at the pottery wheel at a ceramics studio in Chelsea or strolling around New York City, daughter and husband in tow, in search of the unexpected (often taking the form of a gooey chocolate cookie). Follow her @_kreggy_.

Advisors:

Catherine Chattergoon — Pratt Institute B. Arch 2024

Ciara Cronin — Director of Public Relations & Communications, Olson Kundig

Iva Kravitz — Owner, the Iva Agency

Ashley Mendelsohn — Senior Strategy Lead, PinPoint Collective

Katie Swenson — Senior Principal, MASS Design Group