HELEN LUMMIS

TechnologyStart-upsRelationship ManagementEarly CareerMid-CareerAEC TechReal Estate
Written By Erin Pellegrino

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Advisor at Out of Architecture

Areas of Expertise:

Technology, Start-ups, AEC Tech, Real Estate, Relationship Management, Early Career, Mid-Career,

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Helen Lummis is a classically-trained architect turned start-up generalist. She is excited to bring her knowledge of taking your architectural education and applying those skills to other fields. Inspired by the coaching and cheerleading she received with Out of Architecture, she is looking forward to helping others find work that is fulfilling and setting clients up on a path to success in their lives beyond their 9-5.

Now residing in a small town outside of Truckee in Northern California, Helen can be found running around the local trails with her trusty dogs, trying to learn the native flowers of the sierra, and fixing up her cabin. Helen began her career in retail design for a real estate developer in Europe. She then fell in love with the architecture of New Orleans and the community-minded spirit found at the Tulane School of Architecture (she also fell in love with the live oaks, the music, and the biscuits).

After a few years of traditional practice, Helen moved to San Francisco and began her career in tech. True to form she has worn many hats at small start-ups and is always happy to lend an ear and help you design a life you love.

Erin Pellegrino
Erin Pellegrino is currently a Masters of Architecture II Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Described by her professors as a “maker and a thinker with a strong emotive dimension to her work”, Erin Pellegrino is interested in the human qualities of architecture. Previously, she graduated from Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture in 2014 where her design excellence was recognized with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her thesis on architecture and perfume. In spring 2013, she was nominated to represent Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture program for the AIANYS student work competition. She has also been awarded both the Seipp Prize and York Prize. Erin has worked for a range of firms and institutions, as a designer at FXFOWLE, a Studio Coach at NuVu Studio in Cambridge, as a Teaching Associate at Cornell University, and as a shop assistant at both the Cornell University and Harvard University fabrication shops. Recently she was awared the Paul M. Heffernan Travel Fellowship, to travel and realize a mountaineering shelter in the Julian Alps. She was also awarded first prize in Redesigning Detroit, a competition for the redesign of a vacant city block in Detroit, Michigan. This was a result of a collaboration with Davide Marchetti, a Roman architect and visiting critic at Cornell University’s Cornell in Rome program. In the summer of 2011, Erin traveled to South Africa as a part of a Design + Build team to construct an early education crèche in Johannesburg. Other projects include a collaboration with Jake Rudin on a renovation of a Richard Meier home in Ithaca, NY, which was awarded a Historic Ithaca Preservation Award as well as construction of a Ceremonial Japanese Tea House in Danby, NY.
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