Ingalill WAHLROOS-RITTER

Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is an architect, educator, and consultant specializing in the building envelope and experimental use of glass. In partnership with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter, her architectural practice, W-ROAD, navigates transdisciplinary territory in the diverse type and scale of projects, and she has collaborated on multiple award-winning projects as architect and façade consultant. Their latest project is the renovation of the Los Angeles Mission, at 156,000 sf, one of the nation’s largest service providers to the unhoused and a first step towards a stabilized home to over 300 residents.

Ingalill serves as Chair of NCARB’s Education Committee and as President of Architecture for Communities Los Angeles (ACLA). The mission of ACLA, the non-profit sibling organization of AIA LA, is to be at the forefront of architecture education and community building, and to advocate for good design created by and for all people of Los Angeles.

Ingalill has forged educational pathways and launched programs that support her vision of education for all. She is currently Professor in the Architecture Department at East Los Angeles College, a public community college with the largest student enrollment in the state of California. She has taught at Cornell, Yale, the Bartlett, SCI-Arc, and Woodbury where she served as Dean from 2016 to 2012. She was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the profession and the academy, a distinction awarded to 3% of architects in the US. She is also recipient of the 2016 AIA California Council Educator Award, the 2018 AIA|LA Presidential Educator of the Year Award and has been recognized twice by DesignIntelligence as one of the nation’s Most Admired Educators in Architecture and Design in 2018 and 2019. Ingalill brings a deep knowledge of social justice-focused creative organizations and a unique blend of vision, strategy and heart to every enterprise.