Michael Rendler
Architectural Education Director
Marcela Oliva is the Architecture and Environmental Design Leader for the LATTC Green Workforce Division, a member of the Federal Knowledge Management (KM) Team and Knowledge Architect for the LACCD Sustainable Building Program. She participated with NASA KM as a principal investigator for the Cyber-Physical Systems National Science Foundation Grant, and she is a recipient of the California Governor's Award in Geospatial Technologies. Professor Oliva runs a high-tech studio as an "atelier," and the students' learning outcomes and e-portfolio show 100 percent transfer and 100 percent job placements.
The United Negro College Fund and Hispanic Association for Universities and Colleges have identified her program as a role model for Urban Teaching. With local students' talent and as part of a high-tech team, she facilitated the LACCDe7 Architecture Studio to produce geospatial repository and scientific visualization tools that support decision making.She integrates social, natural, and built environments in creative and participatory learning laboratories, and she has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District's high school iSEE (I'm a Student Exploring Excellence) program to create the first and largest initiative program for students interested in architecture and engineering.
Professor Oliva was a three-time competitive presenter for the California Higher Education Sustainable Symposium. As part of her outreach with the Community, Professor Oliva served as a Board Member and Chair for a Non Profit Organizations ONRAMP Arts and member of Bioneer Educators' Network. She has presented at forums that encompass education, technology innovation, and global crises, including for the University of Southern California (USC) Building Information Modeling (BIM) executives, at USC International AIA Technology Forum; Caixa Forum Barcelona; USC Focus the Nation; the Great Thinker Forum; Enterprise Architecture in Washington, D.C.; Innovative Education at Eureka International Mexico City, IBCon Intelligent High Performance Building and others. Oliva advocates for a self-organizing system that unites the mind, the built environment, and the natural environment - a method towards a CyberONE existence.
She believes that through this interdependence, we can find the right relationship and patterns to bring order, balance, and harmony to our planet Earth. Oliva holds a bachelor's degree in Architecture from USC and a master's degree in Architecture and Building Science from Columbia University. She is the USC recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal and she was awarded the LATTC's 2012 Educator of the Year. Professor Oliva was recently a speaker at the 2012 International Open Government Data Conference Co-sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration, Data.gov, the World Bank Open Data Initiative and the Open Development Technology Alliance. Recently the LATTC Program was identified as a catalyst solution for Higher Education today and a "Thought Leadership" by Climate Neutral Campus Report, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) Building Green and the Kresge Foundation. This fall she presented at AASHE American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education Advanced Track National Conference
The United Negro College Fund and Hispanic Association for Universities and Colleges have identified her program as a role model for Urban Teaching. With local students' talent and as part of a high-tech team, she facilitated the LACCDe7 Architecture Studio to produce geospatial repository and scientific visualization tools that support decision making.She integrates social, natural, and built environments in creative and participatory learning laboratories, and she has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District's high school iSEE (I'm a Student Exploring Excellence) program to create the first and largest initiative program for students interested in architecture and engineering.
Professor Oliva was a three-time competitive presenter for the California Higher Education Sustainable Symposium. As part of her outreach with the Community, Professor Oliva served as a Board Member and Chair for a Non Profit Organizations ONRAMP Arts and member of Bioneer Educators' Network. She has presented at forums that encompass education, technology innovation, and global crises, including for the University of Southern California (USC) Building Information Modeling (BIM) executives, at USC International AIA Technology Forum; Caixa Forum Barcelona; USC Focus the Nation; the Great Thinker Forum; Enterprise Architecture in Washington, D.C.; Innovative Education at Eureka International Mexico City, IBCon Intelligent High Performance Building and others. Oliva advocates for a self-organizing system that unites the mind, the built environment, and the natural environment - a method towards a CyberONE existence.
She believes that through this interdependence, we can find the right relationship and patterns to bring order, balance, and harmony to our planet Earth. Oliva holds a bachelor's degree in Architecture from USC and a master's degree in Architecture and Building Science from Columbia University. She is the USC recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal and she was awarded the LATTC's 2012 Educator of the Year. Professor Oliva was recently a speaker at the 2012 International Open Government Data Conference Co-sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration, Data.gov, the World Bank Open Data Initiative and the Open Development Technology Alliance. Recently the LATTC Program was identified as a catalyst solution for Higher Education today and a "Thought Leadership" by Climate Neutral Campus Report, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) Building Green and the Kresge Foundation. This fall she presented at AASHE American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education Advanced Track National Conference